Sentences with phrase «oil and gas extraction projects»

Freeze further leases or permits for new oil and gas extraction projects or transportation infrastructure that would incentivize additional exploration.

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.

«Lead by issuing no further leases or permits for new oil and gas extraction projects or related transportation infrastructure.

Mining projects (37 %) and water impounded behind dams (23 %) are the most commonly reported causes of induced earthquakes, but unconventional oil and gas extraction projects using hydraulic fracturing, are now a frequent addition to the database, said Miles Wilson, a geophysicist at Durham University working on the HiQuake research effort.

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Green groups oppose the project on the basis that pipeline expansion encourages the extraction of more oil and the release of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change.

Unlike Brown, however, Newsom supports a ban on future oil and natural - gas extraction projects that involve fracking, a process that injects high - pressure liquid into rock formations to free up fossil fuels.

For decades, the World Bank has been a major financier of oil and gas extraction and pipeline projects, and thus a backer of the human rights abuses, corruption, environmental harm and climate chaos tied to those projects.

By divesting their assets from fossil fuels, they are reducing the ability for big oil, coal and gas companies to develop new extraction projects, while citizens worldwide are rising to stop these projects in their communities,» said Yossi Cadan, Global Divestment Senior Campaigner at 350.org.

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.

Projecting through 2021, jobs with expected openings through 2013 include teachers at all levels, registered nurses, nursing aides, orderlies and attendants, and jobs in many areas of mining, gas and oil extraction (Tip: the report is a big PDF file, so give it a moment to load).

By law, MLPs can currently only invest in energy as it pertains to oil, natural gas, coal extraction and pipeline projects.