Sentences with phrase «offshore oil extraction»

This is particularly important in industries where the work is hard and dangerous and the profits high, such as mining and offshore oil extraction, to give two obvious examples.

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«Also, as public and government appetite for deepwater offshore drilling ebbs, interest in onshore, safer oil extraction operations is set to increase.

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.

For the past century, the offshore areas of coastal cities such as Goleta, Santa Monica, and Huntington Beach have been home to oil extraction sites.

Fossil fuel based offshore and coastal oil and gas extraction systems are vulnerable to extreme weather events.

Depending on their location, such offshore installations may compete with a variety of other ocean activities, such as fishing, recreational activities, sand and gravel extraction, oil and gas extraction, navigation, and aquaculture.

It expanded extraction using hydrofracturing in tar sands to increase activity in offshore oil drilling all over the world, thereby maximizing its rate of fossil fuel extraction and processing.

Federal Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) All onshore and offshore oil and gas extraction projects are required to pay the federal Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT), but this is intended to be a «super profits» tax payable only after all exploration, establishment, and operational costs have been recovered.

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.

Since 2012 the PRRT applies to both onshore and offshore oil and gas, but it is set up as a tax on profits after all the exploration and extraction costs have been recouped, so it is usually many years before there is any benefit to Australia from the PRRT.

Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil was investing its massive $ 45 billion in earnings in maximizing extraction and processing of oil and gas, including the controversial use of hydrofracturing (fracking) to extract fuel from tar sands and the expansion of offshore oil drilling.

Today — due to the important, irreplaceable values of its Arctic waters for Indigenous, Alaska Native and local communities» subsistence and cultures, wildlife and wildlife habitat, and scientific research; the vulnerability of these ecosystems to an oil spill; and the unique logistical, operational, safety, and scientific challenges and risks of oil extraction and spill response in Arctic waters — the United States is designating the vast majority of U.S. waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing, and Canada will designate all Arctic Canadian waters as indefinitely off limits to future offshore Arctic oil and gas licensing, to be reviewed every five years through a climate and marine science - based life - cycle assessment.