Mudloggers are employed by
the oil and gas extraction industry.
The Oil and Gas Extraction industry is required to report releases in Mexico and Canada, but not in the USA.
However, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that fewer than 200,000 people were employed in
the oil and gas extraction industry as of May 2016, indicating that the industry employs far fewer Americans that Mr. Trump suggests.
This is not «controversial» climate science, it is basic geophysics developed long ago at least in part by
the oil and gas extraction industry.
That's more than the retail trade industry and close to the value of the mining,
oil and gas extraction industry.
There are just under 60,000 people working in the entire
oil and gas extraction industry (NAICS code 211).
Drillers work in
the oil and gas extraction industries and are responsible for the work performed on the drill floor.
Not exact matches
Fracking is part of the problem, but the report states that most human - induced quakes are caused by the
oil and gas industry's use of injection wells to dispose of wastewater - the contaminated liquid that gets pumped out of the well during
oil and gas extraction.
The rules require «resource
extraction issuers» to disclose payments that are made to further the commercial development of
oil, natural
gas, or minerals,
and are generally consistent with the types of payments that the Extractive
Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) suggests should be disclosed.
Wyoming has a small
and largely rural population, but its highest earners are in the
oil,
gas and minerals
extraction industries.
Over the last year, the solar
industry added jobs twelve times faster than the rest of the economy, even more than the jobs created by the
oil and gas extraction and pipeline sectors combined.
In other words the cheapest
and most sensible approach to reducing greenhouse
gases from current 732 megatonnes to a 2020 target of 620 megatonnes involves shrinking the
oil and gas industry by limiting bitumen
extraction,
and not building more pipelines.
Why would we leave the value chain of the Nigerian
oil industry undeveloped beyond crude
oil and gas extraction and export simply because we want to continue with an unsustainable subsidy?
«The
oil and gas industry has benefited from outdated royalty rates for leasing our public lands, while the American people are forced to suffer the consequences of fossil fuel
extraction,» he said.
However, researchers believe that loss would have occurred at a much slower rate — perhaps taking centuries to reach their current state — without the
oil and gas industry's canals
and extraction.
Roughly two - thirds of methane comes from manmade sources like the
oil and gas industry (
oil extraction and leakage in natural
gas systems), agriculture (manure pits
and cow belches)
and landfills.
Mining, quarrying,
and oil and gas extraction — $ 109,844 ($ 79,445) Utilities — $ 96,279 ($ 71,769) Construction — $ 64,240 ($ 51,233) Manufacturing — $ 54,256 ($ 44,359) Retail — $ 28,136 ($ 24,692) Transportation
and warehousing — $ 55,305 ($ 45,081) Information
and cultural
industries — $ 61,373 ($ 49,259) Finance
and insurance — $ 60,011 ($ 48,322) Real estate
and rental
and leasing — $ 50,226 ($ 41,612) Professional, scientific
and technical services — $ 70,310 ($ 55,412) Educational services — $ 51,305 ($ 42,327) Health care
and social assistance — $ 44,863 ($ 37,892) Arts, entertainment
and recreation — $ 30,186 ($ 26,331) Accommodation
and food services — $ 19,656 ($ 17,912)
Even those with decent jobs in the top
industries of
oil and gas extraction are not immune to amassing more debt than they can handle.
Despite
oil and gas industry rhetoric this presidential campaign year, there can be serious health
and environmental impacts associated with fossil fuel
extraction.
As we noted last week, it's about the politics of «the handful of folks who profit off of the
oil, coal
and gas extraction industries,
and the personal pain theywould like to avoid in cutting into a single cent of the most profitable
industry the world has ever known.»
Since the peak of crude
oil production a decade ago, the fossil fuel
industry has been forced to resort to costly
and unconventional methods of
extraction — arctic drilling
and shale
gas fracking among them — giving rise to unprecedented economic
and environmental hazards.
In the U.S., more people now work in the solar
industry than in
oil and gas extraction.
«Between 2010
and 2014, the
oil, coal,
gas, utility,
and natural resource
extraction industries spent $ 1.8 bn on lobbying, much of it in defence of these giveaways,» according to Sanders
and Ellison.
But, expanding California's cap -
and - trade program to enable polluters to buy REDD credits also harms Californians — overwhelmingly low - income communities
and communities of color — those who live near the refineries, power plants,
oil and gas extraction sites
and other high - emission
industries that are the main cause of local
and global climate disruption
In addition, while the
oil and gas industry provides needed employment in low economic, rural
and minority community areas
and also finances significant percentages of state funds such as education, responsible resource
extraction is vital as society moves toward greater conservation, energy efficiency
and renewable energy.
The
extraction industry is eager to get at Colombia's enormous underground stores of
oil, natural
gas, coal,
and precious metals, especially emeralds.
Meanwhile, numerous
industry efforts are underway to further exploit stressed public lands
and perpetuate fossil - fuel dependence through the
extraction of coal,
oil and gas,
oil shale
and tar sands,
and liquefied natural
gas development — as well as uranium mining
and milling
and the construction of energy corridors
and long - distance electric transmission lines.
Since 1979, WVU's National Research Center for Coal
and Energy has advanced technology in key areas of concern to West Virginia's energy
industry from coal mining
and processing to
oil and gas extraction, energy efficiency, mine land reclamation, health concerns,
and water use.
This is as a result of increased growth, not only in the traditional areas of the
extraction industries (those being
oil and gas and mining)
and major infrastructure projects funded by international institutions (such as the World Bank), but also in new growth areas reflective of the growth in sophistication of African economies.
Its
industry is buoyed by mineral
extraction including coal
and sodium bicarbonate, along with
oil, natural
gas and recreation.
Sure enough, mining
and logging — the
industry category that includes
oil and gas extraction — added 7,300 jobs in metro Pittsburgh from January 2008 to its peak in November 2014, or 61 percent of all new jobs created in the area during that period.