Sentences with phrase «oil activities»

Belize, home of the largest barrier reef in the western hemisphere, permanently suspended oil activity in its ocean waters.

Perhaps he saw a connection between Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day - Lewis), scooping up all the oil in the Midwest and swindling anyone who gets in his way, and a lot of the suspicious oil activity that still goes on today.

The new suspension of oil activity marks an enormous win for the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System World Heritage site, the wildlife that live there, and the hundreds of thousands of Belizeans who rely on the reef for survival.

Uganda and Congo should make a deal with UNESCO to protect Virunga from oil activities» said Boden.

But the robust recovery of the US shale oil activity, which is expected to continue in October, will limit price gains in the future.

Court documents now reveal that in the 1990s Shell routinely worked with Nigeria's military and mobile police to suppress resistance to its oil activities, often from activists in Ogoniland, in the delta region.

«Not only has its government listened to calls to protect the Belize Barrier Reef, which only last year was under threat from seismic oil exploration, it has stepped up to become a world leader in ocean protection by ending all oil activity in its waters.»

Interesting news from The Guardian this week: oil giant Shell worked with the Nigerian military and with mobile police to suppress protests against its oil activities in the 1990s, according to court documents that were