Sentences with phrase «new ocean drilling»

A new ocean drilling expedition will try to settle the question by drilling into crust where high temperatures are found unusually close to the sea floor, bringing life's thermal limit within reach.

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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.

Cuomo said in a letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke that offshore drilling «poses an unacceptable threat» to New York's ocean resources and economy.

The Governor's action to protect New York's waters from oil and gas exploration was prompted by the Trump administration's plan to vastly expand offshore drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

When successful, this will open a whole new avenue to investigating the ocean floor that complements traditional approaches using very large drill ships such as the JOIDES Resolution.

Professor Damon Teagle, from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton and a veteran of numerous scientific ocean drilling expeditions, said: «It is very exciting for IODP to be using a British ship and new technologies to investigate the strange reactions that occur when seawater meets rocks of the upper maOcean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton and a veteran of numerous scientific ocean drilling expeditions, said: «It is very exciting for IODP to be using a British ship and new technologies to investigate the strange reactions that occur when seawater meets rocks of the upper maocean drilling expeditions, said: «It is very exciting for IODP to be using a British ship and new technologies to investigate the strange reactions that occur when seawater meets rocks of the upper mantle.

The team were able to draw these conclusions by analysing new data from the chemical composition of the fossilised shells of sea surface and seafloor organisms from that period, taken from drilling cores from the ocean floor in the South Atlantic.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today directed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) to issue new suspensions of deepwater drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), saying a pause is needed to ensure that oil and gas companies first implement adequate safety measures to reduce the risks associated with deepwater drilling operations and are prepared for blowouts and oil spills.

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.

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On the other, however, the big recent summer retreats of the floating sea ice on the Arctic Ocean have created new opportunities, not just to chart possible shipping routes, but to expand surveys of the seabed that might someday lead to deep - ocean Arctic oil and gas drilOcean have created new opportunities, not just to chart possible shipping routes, but to expand surveys of the seabed that might someday lead to deep - ocean Arctic oil and gas drilocean Arctic oil and gas drilling.

In other shocking news, officials in Kuwait have announced that about 90 % of corals in their territorial waters are dead or dying; the first Hourglass Dolphin found in more than 150 years has washed up on the shores of New Zealand; Poison - laced mice are being airdropped into Guam to kill a rampant, invasive species of tree snake — there's a video, after the jump — , and in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, an old oil - drilling rig has been turned into a hotel catering to snorkelers and scuba divers — the type of project proposed by Morris Architects for the (pre-BP spill) Gulf of Mexico.

Last week the Coast Guard wrapped up a marine casualty investigation hearing in Anchorage that uncovered new details about Royal Dutch Shell's reckless attempt to drill for oil in the wild and remote Arctic Ocean in 2012.

We challenge all elected officials to acknowledge these three essential truths when discussing any new offshore drilling proposals,» says Peter Stauffer, Surfrider Foundation's Ocean Ecosystem Manager.

At 3:00 pm we'll enter the meeting and let BOEM know that new drilling is not welcome off our coast or in any of our oceans.

We also urge those in affected communities to attend upcoming public hearing to provide testimony against new offshore drilling in our oceans!

Sarah Chasis, Director for Oceans at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said, «Today's important action by Governor Cuomo sends a message that New York is unwilling to accept the risks that come with offshore drilling.

The Governor's action to protect New York's waters from oil and gas exploration was prompted by the Trump administration's plan to vastly expand offshore drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

By opening up the mid-Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and north coast of Alaska to new offshore oil drilling and exploration, the Minerals Management Service not only places our environment at risk, it threatens the livelihoods of millions of Americans who rely on clean, healthy, oil - free oceans and beaches to support fishing, tourism and other industries.»

He participated in several scientific cruises both in New Zealand waters overlying the continental shelf with NZ based groups and in the southern Pacific with the big time, Ocean Drilling Program research ships funded by the U.S.

It would also stop new leases for offshore drilling in the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico and prohibit offshore drilling in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.

The Surfrider Foundation immediately responded to the threat by issuing an action alert, opposition resources, and taking the lead on organizing robust statewide coalitions across the coastal U.S. to help proponents of healthy ocean and coastal ecosystems rise up in unified, widespread, bipartisan, cross-sectoral opposition to any new offshore drilling or seismic activity.

President Barack Obama is unilaterally blocking the government from issuing new offshore drilling leases in large parts of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, which media outlets have described as «permanent.»

A Bureau of Ocean Energy Management report shows ceasing new Arctic and Gulf of Mexico drilling could decrease global CO2 by over 2 billion tonnes cumulatively.

It is also a key step toward rejecting all new offshore drilling, thereby safeguarding our oceans and all of our coasts — especially the Gulf of Mexico, where communities have borne the brunt of the harm of fossil fuel extraction for far too long.

Horizontal drilling and fracking, mostly in the U.S., were said to have released oceans of new oil and a...

The most ardent drilling opponents, who contend that exploration of the outer continental shelf puts oceans at risk without producing short - term relief from gasoline prices, said there is still time for the next president and future Congresses to work out a new compromise before oil rigs are erected within sight of the nation's coasts.

This is bound to be challenged by every single environmental group with a stake here, but it's still really not encouraging: New York Times reports that the Department of Interior has granted Shell conditional approval to start drilling oil exploration wells in the Arctic Ocean starting next summer.

Obviously the exact details will be forthcoming, but the New York Times, the Guardian, Reuters and others have gotten wind of what the plan will entail: Along the east coast, oil drilling will be permitted in some 167 million acres of ocean from northern Delaware to the central Florida coast.