Sentences with phrase «offshore oil drilling with»

On the other hand, Barack Obama — while not ruling out the use of greater nuclear power, clean coal, or even offshore oil drilling with qualifications — has expressed much greater confidence in the ability of renewable energy technology to supply a greater percentage of our energy needs in a shorter time period.

Amendment 9 combines a proposed ban on offshore oil drilling with a proposed ban on vaping in the workplace.

Not exact matches

NE is an offshore drilling contractor for the oil and gas industry with operations all over the world including operations in the United States, Gulf of Mexico and Alaska, Mexico, Brazil, the North Sea, the Mediterranean, West Africa, the Middle East, India, Malaysia, and Australia.

With the release of its master plan for offshore wind energy, New York State is doubling down on its commitment to renewable energy at a time when the Trump administration is moving to allow coastal drilling for oil and gas.

He has scheduled some high prolife events focusing on national issues in recent days, including an event with Al Gore to ask that New York be excluded from the Trump administration's expanded offshore oil and gas drilling program.

The Trump administration is preparing to unveil as soon as this week an expansive offshore oil plan that would open the door to selling new drilling rights in Atlantic waters, according to people familiar with the plan.

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.

«We will drill new oil wells offshore, and we'll drill them now,» McCain pledged to his faithful, who gushed with enthusiastic chants of «drill, baby, drill!»

$ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosure

So - called roadless oil extraction, in which oil companies use offshore exploration and production methods and leave less of an imprint on the area being drilled, is a viable alternative, argue Swing and others associated with Scientists Concerned for Yasuni, a network of independent researchers that first came together in 2004 to stop a proposed road project inside the park.

Trump's administration has already reversed Obama - era bans on offshore drilling in certain parts of the Arctic, a turn that could intensify competition for resources in the region with major oil producer Russia.

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We get acclimated with a few of the hundreds of men and women working aboard the titular vessel, an offshore oil drilling rig.

with potential upside from price of oil / FA second drill / something (anything) happening offshore Ireland.

Both of these companies are associated with offshore drilling of oil and gas.

Senator Barack Obama commented on the drilling idea on Tuesday, saying: «Much like his gas - tax gimmick that would leave consumers with pennies in savings, opening our coastlines to offshore drilling would take at least a decade to produce any oil at all, and the effect on gasoline prices would be negligible at best since America only has 3 percent of the world's oil.

He's also implying that he'll stick with his (ill - timed) support for expanded offshore drilling — although obviously with an aggressive clampdown on the oil industry and the agencies that, in theory at least, were supposed to protect workers and the environment.

Friends of the Earth — US is proud to stand with a broad coalition in opposition to the draft 5 - year plan to expand offshore oil drilling in US federal waters.

The national survey by Pew Research Center, conducted March 27 - April 9 among 2,541 adults, finds pockets of partisan agreement over expanding solar and wind power, though wide political divides remain over increasing fossil fuels through such methods as coal mining, hydraulic fracturing and offshore drilling for oil and natural gas, a pattern consistent with a 2016 Pew Research Center survey.

In January 2018, the federal government threatened New York's coastline with its Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Program for 2019 - 2024, proposing to make more than 90 percent of the total offshore acreage in the United States available to oil and gas drilliOil and Gas Program for 2019 - 2024, proposing to make more than 90 percent of the total offshore acreage in the United States available to oil and gas drillioil and gas drilling.

«With less than 3 % of the world's oil in our offshore areas, it's obvious that drilling will not solve our energy crisis but does jeopardize our coastal communities and economies.»

With the backing of science, economics, clean energy leaders, local businesses, and the vast majority of Americans, the Obama administration permanently protected most of the Arctic Ocean and a chain of deep sea canyons in the Atlantic Ocean, stretching from the Chesapeake Bay to Canada's border, from dangerous and destructive offshore oil drilling.

I can't help but wonder whether, years from now, I'll still be writing pieces with titles like «Destroying What Remains,» as the Navy continues its war - gaming in an ice - free summer Arctic amid a sea of offshore oil drilling platforms.

«The threat of devastating oil spills associated with Trump's risky offshore drilling proposal puts coastal economies and ways of life at risk while worsening the consequences of climate change.

With President - elect Donald Trump pledging to expand offshore drilling, a coalition of environmental groups called on President Obama to permanently protect federal waters from expanded oil leasing.

Asm Calderon, an avid surfer, has joint - authored a bill with Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi to declare surfing the official state sport of California, elevated the fight against plastic pollution with his proposal to limit the distribution of single - use straws and has firmly rejected the federal administration's attempt to open up California waters to new offshore oil drilling.

It has long been the common practice to grant offshore oil and gas drillers such exclusions, and it probably had little to do with the disaster that BP's alleged shoddy drilling practices has precipitated.

This morning, Congressman Mark Sanford hosted a press conference where he clearly announced firm opposition to offshore drilling and exploration for oil and gas off the Atlantic coast, thus aligning with the sentiment of local coastal communities.

«The risks associated with the oil sands, the environmental risks, are significantly different than — and probably less significant than — the kind of risks associated with offshore drilling,» said Canada's Federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice.

This briefing paper examines how US oil production might be phased down to align with the Paris Agreement goals, focusing on offshore drilling in federal waters in particular.

These critical messages are consistent with and complimentary to Surfrider Foundation's Clean Water Initiative, which focuses on protecting water quality in coastal watersheds and in the near - shore marine environment, and the Foundation's «Not The Answer» campaign, which focuses on raising awareness about the negative environmental and economic impacts of offshore oil drilling.

Friends of the Earth France, along with a number of allies, ended a three - day blockade yesterday of an international summit on offshore oil and gas drilling, in Pau, France, with a mass «die - in».

The Natural Resources Defense Council applauded it — with reservations about the expanded offshore oil drilling and the lack of minimum performance standards for the largest carbon polluters.

HEMP is a good answer — no wars were fought for hemp and cooking oil, no harmful pipelines were built and leaked for that oil, no ocean life was ruined due to offshore drilling, no one's health was effected for that vegetable oil, the air is cleaner with that oil due to no green house gases released — this oil can be recycled from our food — hemp can replace fibers, pulp, plastics and it still makes food and grows in under 3 months (and it does not need much water, no fertilizer and cleans the air!!

Two Senate committees separately approved bills that would strengthen the government's regulation of offshore drilling, require oil companies to be better prepared to cope with a spill, and lift federal spill - related economic liability limits.

Current renewable energy legislation is stalled in the senate, with disagreement over offshore oil drilling being cited as a reason for the current deadlock.

and George Bush, perhaps with an eye towards the fuel riots going on around the world, jumps and proposes the new Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: 1) drilling offshore, 2) drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 3) adding refineries, and 4) extracting oil from shale, which makes the Alberta Tar Sands look environmentally benign.

Another bargaining chip with moderate Democrats might be offshore oil and gas drilling.

Next week the House Natural Resources Committee will hold the first in a series of scheduled hearings on offshore oil drilling, the policies on which Salazar has said he intends to revamp in consultation with Congress.