Sentences with phrase «offshore oil developments»

Habitat is being disturbed and polluted by offshore oil development in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas, and as CO2 warms our planet, the arctic ice pack is rapidly melting; the whales are in danger from noise, oil spills and deadly collisions with ships, while global warming is steadily melting their icy abode and reducing available food.

Currently companies pay 12.5 - 18.8 % to the feds for on and offshore oil development, while the lowest Interior Department proposal fixes the royalty rate for oil shale at 5 %.

The presidential mandate to review our Sanctuaries protective status and offshore oil development places this protection under risk.

«Some of the best Islamic finance lawyers can be found in Houston because you've got inbound financing activity from the Middle East investing in offshore oil development,» he says.

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The Moho Nord oil exploration and production project offshore Angola is a large - scale deepwater development.

#WITH a 28 per cent success rate in the exploration of the Timor Sea region, there is currently a strong industry focus on offshore and onshore oil and gas development.

In a matter of hours, Aschidamini can pool together top - tier resumes and form well - oiled offshore teams for any industry, from marketing to tech development — regardless of the project brief.

The EEZ Act was enacted in 2013 to provide a regulatory framework to manage the environmental effects of offshore resource development such as oil exploration and seabed mining.

The company is an oil and gas exploration and development company in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico and offshore international areas.

With the discovery of larger commercial quantities of oil and gas in deep water offshore Ghana, It became necessary for the bill to passed as the new phase of oil exploration has comes with new challenges with actual development, production and utilisation of its oil and gas resources.

When the chiefs in the region asked for 10 percent retention of the oil revenues for infrastructural development, you kicked against it with excuse that the oil is drilled offshore.

For instance, such findings will play into decisions about the location, timing and technology of marine development — including cruise and cargo ship traffic, oil and gas rigs and offshore wind farms (which create high levels of noise during construction and moderate levels when operational).

I was encouraged by President Obama's calls for the construction of more nuclear power plants, as well as for increased offshore exploration of oil and natural gas, and the further development of clean coal technologies.

At the same time, he said he didn't think the president would use the state as a case study against oil development, considering the recent decision to allow exploratory offshore drilling near Alaska.

«The committee took a positive step forward by passing this bill which recognizes the importance of additional offshore oil and natural gas development and Canadian oil to our nation's energy and economic security,» API President Jack Gerard said in a prepared statement.

The U.S. Interior Department has sold leases for offshore oil and gas development in the Arctic Ocean throughout the Bush administration.

Perhaps most critically, she would oversee the development of many of America's fossil fuels and renewables resources, including all of its offshore oil, gas and wind development.

Western gray whales are facing, the large - scale offshore oil and gas development programs near their summer feeding ground, as well as fatal net entrapments off Japan during migration, which pose significant threats to the future survival of the population.

Geologists study modern reef development in Australia's offshore Great Barrier reef to explore for ancient oil productive reefs in suburface basins.

Seventy - seven percent of voters support producing more of America's oil and natural gas, yet the government keeps 87 percent of federally controlled offshore acreage off - limits to energy development.

He says Alaska will need much more coastal infrastructure to handle increased shipping and other commercial activities like offshore oil and gas development.

Together, Shark Stewards, The International Marine Mammal Project and Earth Island Institute are gathering public support, comments and advocating to resist any changes in Sanctuary status and offshore oil exploration and development of the west coast.

Expanding extreme offshore energy development marks a new chapter in Trump's reckless overreach to give away public lands and waters so oil executives can profit.

The prospects for offshore gas remain relatively robust in a Sustainable Development Scenario, but a decline in oil demand in this scenario weighs against new capital - intensive offshore oil projects.

This extends to issuing permits for more than 500 offshore oil and gas exploration and development projects in the Gulf of Mexico.

In its draft leasing plan that will set the boundaries for oil development in federal waters from 2017 to 2022, the Obama Administration proposed allowing offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast between Virginia and Georgia.

The increase comes in large part from new offshore developments, including deepwater drilling, and helps restore Mexico's position as a major global oil producer and exporter.

It means making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development.

Recent favorable developments in wave energy due to the increased focus on climate change include, technological developments in Scotland, Australia, Denmark and the USA, and a high potential for energy supply - wave energy could provide 10 % of the current world electricity supply (if appropriately harnessed)- and the potential synergies with the offshore oil and gas industry could be significant.

Oil and gas lease sales, royalties from mineral and energy production, Alaska's «Open for Business» initiative, renewable energy development, mineral extraction, the future of coal production from public lands, offshore renewable energy development, and oil and gas exploration and drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf were just some of the topics discussOil and gas lease sales, royalties from mineral and energy production, Alaska's «Open for Business» initiative, renewable energy development, mineral extraction, the future of coal production from public lands, offshore renewable energy development, and oil and gas exploration and drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf were just some of the topics discussoil and gas exploration and drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf were just some of the topics discussed.

Further, it may be held that the OCSLA only provides jurisdiction where the development of mineral resources is concerned, since it was originally passed to address the growth of offshore oil and gas exploration rather than renewable energy production.

«Secretary Salazar is a very strong advocate and very strongly committed to offshore wind development,» said Jim Lanard, Managing Director of Deepwater Wind, one of the most active offshore wind developers, adding that it is «very unlikely» that the Gulf oil spill ultimately will have a detrimental impact on offshore wind development over the long term.

GL's Stute said using retrofitted oil and gas industry vessels will work with prototype and smaller projects in the earliest stage of U.S. offshore development but «for building a large scale wind farm to a very tight time schedule» he is dubious.

Energy production is the main driver of the state's economy, providing more than 80 % of state government revenue and thousands of jobs.168 Continuing pressure for oil, gas, and mineral development on land and offshore in ice - covered waters increases the demand for infrastructure, placing additional stresses on ecosystems.

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She has prepared Environmental Impacts Statements, Operations Plans, Monitoring and Mitigation Plans, and Deep Water Port Applications and is very familiar with the requirements of and compliance with federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and guidelines for projects related to offshore energy development including National / State Environmental Policy Acts (Environmental Assessment / Environmental Impact Statements), Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act, Clean Water Act (including National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System), Coastal Zone Management Act, Water Resources Development Act, Endangered Species Act, Magnuson - Stevens Act, Rivers and Harbors Act, and the Oil Poldevelopment including National / State Environmental Policy Acts (Environmental Assessment / Environmental Impact Statements), Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act, Clean Water Act (including National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System), Coastal Zone Management Act, Water Resources Development Act, Endangered Species Act, Magnuson - Stevens Act, Rivers and Harbors Act, and the Oil PolDevelopment Act, Endangered Species Act, Magnuson - Stevens Act, Rivers and Harbors Act, and the Oil Pollution Act.

Our opportunity here isn't only about protecting the ocean waters of America, marine life, a favorite surf break, jobs or a given beach community; it's about demanding that our government utilize the best available science and data and listen to the massive outpouring of public opposition to destructive offshore oil and gas development, to shift the tides of energy development instead away from fossil fuels and toward renewables; it's about holding our President and federal agencies accountable for decisions they make about the management of the ocean; it's about protecting the ocean and every coastline from the atrocity and injustice of offshore drilling and exploration; it's about protecting clean water, air and beaches now and for the future; it's about protecting one another, and the Earth.

At a current oil price of about $ 46 per barrel, there's little chance that there will be a big push toward development, but as soon as prices range upward of $ 80 per barrel, that could change — plus, some of the policy barriers may be coming down, Zukunft said, referring to the Trump administration's moves to enable offshore Arctic drilling.

Over 500 activists peacefully demonstrated against the negative impacts of offshore exploration and exploitation, under discussion at the MCE Deepwater Development summit by representatives from big oil and gas companies including Total, Shell, BP, Exxon, and Repsol.

The greater increase would come from U.S. sources - specifically onshore and offshore oil, much of which currently is off - limits to exploration and development.

The Republican platform slated for approval at the party's convention includes expanded offshore oil - and - gas development, opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to drilling rigs and thwarting Environmental Protection Agency climate change regulations.

• The shale revolution has created a new competitive environment for investment in offshore oil and gas • Policy support and technology developments promise major cost reductions for the next wave of offshore wind projects

This correspondence links previous work by the authors to ongoing debates about the development of offshore oil resources.

Let's say we shut down and decommissioned coal mines and coal - fired power plants, stopped new offshore drilling for oil and gas plus the development of shale oil and gas, moved away from nuclear power as too risky, spent trillions to subsidize non-viable windmills and solar panels to squeak by in avoiding a total blackout by imposing exorbitant taxes on energy in order to force people to cut back its use.

And that in turn has opened up previously inaccessible offshore areas to oil and gas exploration and development.

to craft a measure to reduce heat - trapping gases in the power sector and encourage development of nuclear power, «clean» coal, natural gas and offshore oil drilling.

Well, this one starts by opening up the North Slope of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing, clearing the way for oil shale development on public lands, and allowing offshore drilling on heretofore off - limits areas of the Atlanta and Pacific coasts - including, of course, California.

That said, I think McCain misses the boat in the continued call for offshore oil drilling and the development of clean coal.

His administration has a clear record of actions, including an offshore moratorium and permitorium, that have reduced U.S. oil and natural gas development.

Last week we posted on a new study showing tremendous economic and energy benefits to opening the U.S. Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to offshore oil and natural gas development.