Sentences with phrase «oil and gas development»

Meanwhile he has pursued a reckless path of continued oil and gas development in order to continue making as much money as possible for himself and his company, regardless of the consequences.

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

In holding these lease sales, the federal agency failed to consider the far - reaching impacts of the wave of oil and gas development they are meant to encourage.

He moved to protect many of these same regions from oil and gas development and the potential ecological devastation they bring.

Supporters of this and similar measures have said that the measures were proposed on the premise that home values are negatively impacted by oil and gas development.

This new perspective may well influence the location of future shipping routes, as well as offshore wind farms and new oil and gas developments.

Between counties and within counties, homes near oil and gas development in some cases have higher sales prices and values than homes without.

There are currently dozens of massive proposed mines, off - and on - shore oil and gas development and fossil fuel generated power plants on the table.

But most oil and gas development occurs on private lands.

There is technology development, raw material management, the auto sector and even our controversial oil and gas development.

Oil and gas development in particular may increase significantly.

For communities living on the front lines of oil and gas development, these cameras have become a valuable tool to help convey the serious local impacts of air pollution from this industry.

Zinke's budgets requests an additional $ 16 million (an increase of almost 30 %) and 82 added Bureau of Land Management (BLM) staff to process permits for oil and gas development on public lands.

«More data collection and further study in the Bakken and elsewhere are needed to better understand, quantify and minimize water impacts of unconventional oil and gas development in the future.»

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

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has taken its first stab at quantifying the hazard from earthquakes associated with oil and gas development.

Perry cited his own record from 2000 - 2015 as governor of Texas, a period in which he supported oil and gas development while leading the nation in the expansion of wind energy.

There's also a passage in the story vividly showing how industry pronouncements about the safety of deepwater drilling — which undoubtedly contributed to President Obama's decision to support expanded oil and gas development off American coasts — were a smokescreen:

In another heated week on Years of Living Dangerously, The Vampire Diaries star Ian Somerhalder sat down with an evangelical Christian father and daughter who fundamentally disagree about climate change while 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl explored Arctic oil and gas development amidst ice melts and rising seas.

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Increasing involvement in invertebrate taxonomy and community ecology led her in 1983 to a job at a statewide nonprofit, exploring oil and gas development's effects on marine ecology.

Environmentalists, he claimed, had invented «the figure of the uncontacted native jungle dweller» in order to stop oil and gas development in the Amazon.

Bill 300 is intended to apply to Canadian corporations carrying on mining or oil and gas development activities in any country eligible for Canadian development assistance.

In which The Vampire Diaries star Ian Somerhalder sits down with an Evangelical Christian father and daughter who fundamentally disagree about climate change while 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl explores Arctic oil and gas development amidst ice melts and rising seas in Greenland.

Our Norton Rose Fulbright Pittsburgh - Southpointe practice tracks legislative activity that we believe may impact oil and gas development within the Marcellus and Utica shale regions (Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio).

Map shows the entire area where oil and gas development has reduced the land's ability to fix carbon, measured in «net primary production,» which is the net amount of carbon fixed by plants and stored in biomass.

#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.

Trump's new executive order now urges the U.S. Department of Interior to reassess and replace the most recent five - year oil and gas development plan the Obama administration put in place for the outer continental shelf, which covers federal waters off all U.S. coasts.

Oklahoma's governor defended the state response to the seismic activity attributed to oil and gas development against a federal report on the hazard.

Panelists explored the likely evolution of Asia's involvement in Middle East oil and gas development for the future.

Discouraging domestic oil and gas development does not hasten the arrival of alternative energy; it only shifts the environmental risks associated with petroleum extraction to developing nations.

Rick Perry, President - elect Donald Trump's apparent choice to become U.S. Department of Energy secretary, was known for backing oil and gas development during his 14 years as Texas governor.

The results are somewhat surprising, especially because similar studies have shown that oil and gas development affect prairie chickens, Sandercock said.

The Department of the Interior has proposed requiring the disclosure of chemicals used during hydraulic - fracturing operations on public lands, but much of the current oil and gas development is taking place on private land.

The new study, published this month in the journal The Leading Edge, provides a color - coded map of the 75,000 - square mile region that identifies those potential oil and gas development sites that would be would be most likely to trigger an earthquake associated with fluid injection.

One of the ways oil and gas development worsens water scarcity in times of drought is the use of large quantities of water for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and subsequent rounds of fracking the same well, a process called «refracturing.»

The researchers said their findings identify a need to make measurements across a wide variety of regions in Pennsylvania but also in other states with a long history of oil and gas development such as California and Texas.

Technology has gotten better and the footprint of oil and gas development smaller.

In the years since the last vote on ANWR, she said oil and gas development on state lands has expanded to border the Arctic refuge on the east, bringing infrastructure closer to the region.

With renewed interest in arctic oil and gas development and recognition that the polar regions are early warning systems for climate change, both foreign and Canadian researchers once again are focusing on the Arctic.

In Oklahoma's case, about 90 percent of wastewater comes not from fracking, but from naturally watery oil deposits, said Matt Skinner, a spokesperson for the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, the state agency that regulates oil and gas development.

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May 7, 2012 • Cash - strapped states are embracing the millions of dollars in new tax revenue coming from shale oil and gas development.

Today, after oil and gas development, native Qataris now number about 225,000, with another 1.5 million or so European and American managers, English - speaking Filipinos working in hospitality, and Pakistanis and Sudanese holding shovels and loading bricks by hand onto flatbed trucks.

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.

On top of that, the Interior Department is moving forward on lease sales in the same area and writing regulations for oil and gas development specifically in the Arctic.

The Clinton Administration opposes efforts to allow oil and gas development on the Arctic Refuge's 1002 Area.