Sentences with phrase «new oil and gas extraction»

Freeze further leases or permits for new oil and gas extraction projects or transportation infrastructure that would incentivize additional exploration.

«Lead by issuing no further leases or permits for new oil and gas extraction projects or related transportation infrastructure.

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Employment has not yet dropped substantially, but the Conference Board expects the labor market to soften, as indicated by «a significant drop in new job ads in oil and gas extraction - related occupations,» the post says (emphasis in original).

Injecting wastewater deep underground as a byproduct of oil and gas extraction techniques that include fracking causes human - made earthquakes, the lead author of new research from Arizona State University said Thursday.

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.

Arkady was said to have been trying to get some placing shares in the last fund raise but was too late getting the paperwork in as it was oversubscribed.Roman Abramovich gave an interview to i think a dubai newspaper in early jan where he stated he is actively seeking new oil and gas assets in siberia and he also mentioned the new proposed changes to the mineral extraction tax.So putting two and two together he must think the smaller companies in the region are prime for picking off some assets or take over.

For three years, my colleagues and I have worked very hard to develop our New York Marcellus Shale Internet map server to allow citizens concerned about gas and oil extraction to access a great deal of highly useful data.

«Like other forms of resource [extraction] in Papua New Guinea, oil and gas extraction is promoted as a model of development,» said Natalie Lowrey, Communications Coordinator for the Deep Sea Mining Campaign.

Filmmaker David Lavallee turns his attention to the wider impact of oil and gas extraction in the «new energy» age in To the Ends of the Earth.

Having explored the risks to western Canada's waterways created by the Alberta oil sands in White Water, Black Gold (a Planet in Focus selection in 2011), filmmaker David Lavallee now turns his attention to the wider impact of oil and gas extraction in the «new energy» age.

While the sun is setting on the «rip and ship» model of oil extraction in Fort McMurray, there could be a new dawn of prosperity if we can «pump and polish» or «mine and shine» our abundant oil and gas feedstocks.

«It emerged at the international level, through the combination of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low - cost alternatives to supposedly «offset» their continued and excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the «protection» of forests in their countries, (4) the interests of corporations that could profit from market - tradable «offset» credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn «unexploited» forests into a new market for this type of capital, through the commercialization of «environmental services» such as carbon sequestration, among others.»

May 10 (UPI)-- A new model tracks oil and gas extraction rates and how they impact the ability of major fossil fuel producers to meet global emission reduction targets.

Under the bill, there would be no new leases for extraction of fossil fuels — such as coal, oil, and gas — on all federal lands.

This would imply that investment in exploration, development, and extraction of new sources of oil and gas could move from the «controversial» category to «misaligned» in a future refinement of the methodology.

Interestingly, beyond this, despite considerable rhetoric about moving beyond debates about carbon - pricing, the report recommends that in order to avoid adding to the Federal debt, it would be necessary to impose new taxes, including increased royalties for oil and gas extraction, a tax on imported oil, a tax on electricity sales, and a «very small carbon price» (presumably from a modest carbon tax or unambitious cap - and - trade system).

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.

By divesting their assets from fossil fuels, they are reducing the ability for big oil, coal and gas companies to develop new extraction projects, while citizens worldwide are rising to stop these projects in their communities,» said Yossi Cadan, Global Divestment Senior Campaigner at 350.org.

A new article in today's New York Times notes a similar favor Pruitt conducted at the request of Devon Energy lobbyists who were concerned about U.S. Bureau of Land Management rules that could restrict oil and gas extraction on public lannew article in today's New York Times notes a similar favor Pruitt conducted at the request of Devon Energy lobbyists who were concerned about U.S. Bureau of Land Management rules that could restrict oil and gas extraction on public lanNew York Times notes a similar favor Pruitt conducted at the request of Devon Energy lobbyists who were concerned about U.S. Bureau of Land Management rules that could restrict oil and gas extraction on public lands:

This is as a result of increased growth, not only in the traditional areas of the extraction industries (those being oil and gas and mining) and major infrastructure projects funded by international institutions (such as the World Bank), but also in new growth areas reflective of the growth in sophistication of African economies.

Sure enough, mining and logging — the industry category that includes oil and gas extraction — added 7,300 jobs in metro Pittsburgh from January 2008 to its peak in November 2014, or 61 percent of all new jobs created in the area during that period.