Sentences with phrase «more oil and gas extraction»

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That's more than the retail trade industry and close to the value of the mining, oil and gas extraction industry.

Over the last year, the solar industry added jobs twelve times faster than the rest of the economy, even more than the jobs created by the oil and gas extraction and pipeline sectors combined.

Green groups oppose the project on the basis that pipeline expansion encourages the extraction of more oil and the release of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change.

In other cases, the story is more nuanced: For example, oil and gas extraction firms benefit, while the producers of petroleum and coal products lose, echoing the tension between refiners and oil - shale producers.

In other words the cheapest and most sensible approach to reducing greenhouse gases from current 732 megatonnes to a 2020 target of 620 megatonnes involves shrinking the oil and gas industry by limiting bitumen extraction, and not building more pipelines.

Increases in oil and gas extraction as well as support activities for the mining and energy sector more than offset a drop in mining and quarrying.

Even those with decent jobs in the top industries of oil and gas extraction are not immune to amassing more debt than they can handle.

Meanwhile, 95 % goes toward exacerbating the problem, meaning the extraction and production of even more oil and gas sources.

Methane valued at more than $ 1 billion escapes from oil and natural gas extraction processes in the U.S. each year, enough to heat 7 million homes.

In the U.S., more people now work in the solar industry than in oil and gas extraction.

Oil and gas extraction would drop as well, but more gradually, as federal lands and waters represent a smaller fraction of national production, and these resources take longer to develop.

If combustion of the final products is included, the so - called «Well to Wheels» approach, oil sands extraction, upgrade and use emits 10 to 45 % more greenhouse gases than conventional crude.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

As reported in the Los Angeles Times in late April 2015, the US Geological Survey (USGS) released a map of earthquakes «thought to be triggered by human activity in the eastern and central United States» — coinciding with the emerging view of officials «that wastewater disposal following oil and gas extraction is causing more earthquakes.»

The ratio of energy returned on energy invested (EROEI) for fossil energy production has tended to fall as high - quality deposits of oil, coal, and natural gas are depleted, and as society relies more on unconventional oil and gas that require more energy for extraction, and on coal that is more deeply buried or that is of lower energy content.

No more pollution produced by the extraction and consumption of oil coal, gas and wood.

Alberta alone accounts for more than 96 per cent of Canada's oil reserves and in 2010, about 140,000 people were directly employed in the mining, quarrying, oil and gas extraction sector, including the oil sands.