Sentences with phrase «oil and gas extraction rose»

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction rose 0.9 per cent.

After falling for four consecutive months, support activities for mining and oil and gas extraction rose 9.9 % in April, as both rigging and drilling services advanced.

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The dramatic rise in shale - gas extraction and the tight - oil revolution (mostly crude oil that is found in shale deposits) happened in the United States and Canada because open access, sound government policy, stable property rights and the incentive offered by market pricing unleashed the skills of good engineers.

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.

Since a sustainable future based on the continued extraction of coal, oil and gas in the «business - as - usual mode» will not be possible because of both resource depletion and environmental damages (as caused, e.g., by dangerous sea level rise) we urge our societies to -LSB-...] Reduce the concentrations of warming air pollutants (dark soot, methane, lower atmosphere ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons) by as much as 50 % [and] cut the climate forcers that have short atmospheric lifetimes.

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.