Sentences with phrase «oil and gas exploration off»

Our campaigns include fighting oil and gas exploration off the coast of Cape Breton, working for safe cleanup of the Sydney Tar Ponds, helping the struggle against the Digby Neck Mega-quarry, and protecting the Tobeatic Wilderness Reserve, as well as many other issues.

Another title in the bill would require the Administration to lease large Outer Continental Shelf tracts for oil and gas exploration off the Pacific, Atlantic, and eastern Gulf coasts that have the highest potential.

The bottom line is, safety has been and will continue to be my administration's top priority when it comes to oil and gas exploration off America's precious coasts — even as we push our economy and the world to ultimately transition off of fossil fuels.

Oil and gas exploration off Ghana's eastern coast on the Gulf of Guinea is ongoing, and the amount of both crude oil and natural gas continues to increase.

Not exact matches

Investors particularly punished smaller companies within the space: the SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production fund (NYSEArca: XOP) was down 7.77 percent, while the SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Equipment and Services (NYSEArca: XES) was off 7.59 percent.

Today, due largely to competition from ETFs and alternative currencies and technologies, what used to be the go - to exchange for legitimate risk - taking in oil & gas and mineral exploration now resides far off in the distance.

Last week, the Obama administration announced that oil and gas exploration on the outer continental shelf would be «off the table» for the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, at least for the time being.

According to the Democratic staff letter, the bill would repeal reduced tax rates for major integrated oil companies, drop foreign income tax deductions for companies that produce oil and natural gas overseas and drop a tax break for companies to write off some exploration expenses.

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 authors note that even if the large EIA reserve estimates are valid, peak CO2 could be kept close to 400 ppm if the most difficult to extract oil and gas is left in the ground via a rising price on carbon emissions that discourages remote exploration and environmental regulations that place some areas off - limits.

Dombroff ticks off myriad ways businesses are already using drones: insurance, news gathering, commercial surveillance, remote sensing, power line inspection, commercial filming, concerts, advertising, real estate, construction, law enforcement, firefighting, disaster relief, agriculture, education, air quality, search and rescue, and mineral, gas and oil exploration.