Sentences with phrase «new drilling effort»

After the 2005 seismic survey, the scientific community gathered in support of a new drilling effort, but at $ 20 million, the price remained too high.

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March 9 (Reuters)- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday said he had formally asked for the state to be excluded from a federal offshore drilling program that he said would threaten its ocean resources and endanger efforts toward a cleaner energy economy.

Shale producers are drilling new wells closer together, and closer to older wells, all in an effort to drain as much of the available reservoir area as possible.

In the early years of the Cuomo Administration, oil giant Exxon - Mobil put its considerable political clout behind an effort to get New York to allow fracking; a controversial type of drilling that allowed for the extraction of natural gas.

NEW DELHI — Indian scientists are about to embark on an ambitious effort to drill into the Indian plate to monitor tremors and other seismic signatures of impending earthquakes.

While there is the development of new hydrocarbon sources, including deepwater / horizontal drilling and fracking, are contentiously underway, commitments to mitigate climate change are driving efforts to develop sources of alternative and renewable energy.

Meanwhile, Bell said, the findings» impact on efforts to drill new ice cores is still unclear.

They have leveled blistering criticism about Obama's efforts to slow down the Keystone Pipeline; they don't like his new auto emissions standards; they are unhappy with new EPA mercury emissions rules for boilers; and they don't like the fact that permits for drilling and fracking on federal lands have slowed.

However, the stark reality is that global emissions have accelerated (Fig. 1) and new efforts are underway to massively expand fossil fuel extraction [7]--[9] by drilling to increasing ocean depths and into the Arctic, squeezing oil from tar sands and tar shale, hydro - fracking to expand extraction of natural gas, developing exploitation of methane hydrates, and mining of coal via mountaintop removal and mechanized long - wall mining.

New York State appears to be further slowing its effort to produce rules governing fracking, shorthand for the suite of drilling methods used to extract natural gas from deep shale deposits.

In addition, offshore drilling is contrary to New York's aggressive efforts to move toward cleaner energy resources, including the recent nation - leading $ 1.4 billion investment dedicated to on - shore renewable energy projects and a goal of developing 2,400 megawatts of offshore wind generation by 2030.

Today we sent a loud message to the country that we will not put the health and safety of our communities before special interests by standing against any efforts to allow drilling off of the shores of Long Island and New York State.»

-- expand drilling / fracking to extract as much domestic energy as possible, — use clean natural gas, where possible, to replace dirtier coal and for heavy transportation vehicles; — support basic research efforts aimed at finding economically viable green energy technologies; — at the same time, install new nuclear power generation capacity in place of new coal plants, wherever this makes economic sense.

This new effort to lift the export ban rings of hypocrisy since just a few years ago the whole justification for «drill baby drill» in the U.S. was the idea of «energy independence.»

Harvard Protection Service (New York, NY) 6/2001 — 12/2001 Fire Safety Director • Monitored a Class - E fire alarm system located within a busy commercial high - rise building • Conducted regular inspections of all fire safety equipment, as well as performed regular fire evacuation drills • Collaborated with other safety professionals to coordinate both prevention and response efforts