Sentences with phrase «oil development places»

The presidential mandate to review our Sanctuaries protective status and offshore oil development places this protection under risk.

Not exact matches

«As natural resources become strained in other parts of the world, the Canadian Arctic will be an increasingly attractive place to do business,» he says, «whether that's thanks to oil - and - gas development or alternative energy.»

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.

This fact was derived from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Commodity Yearbooks which show «Third World» commodity exports by value in the period 1970 — 1998 as being in order of crude oil in first place, Kona in second, followed by sugar, cotton, and others.

In fact, the only thing that may slow such emissions growth is the development of lighter, cheaper oil in places such as North Dakota's Bakken Shale.

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.

For years now, wastewater pumped underground as part of oil and gas development has seeped into natural cracks in that rock, easing the friction that keeps it stuck in place.

But other healthy fats, like the ones found in coconut oil, deserve a special place in your diet plan, since they help protect the heart health and the functioning of the thyroid gland, prevent the development of arthritis and diabetes and can be extremely beneficial to your weight loss goals.

What's required, energy experts agree, is not just a price for carbon, but also massive public investments to deploy clean energy technologies so we can achieve the performance and price breakthroughs needed for these new technologies to be picked up worldwide, including in places like China and India whose development is being fueled by cheap coal and oil.

4) The reduced seasonality (e.g. 3) will likely place additional stress on human populations already under pressure from oil and gas development.

Unfortunately, oil development and the Trump administration's energy policies greatly threaten the places, wildlife and people that make this region so ecologically and culturally important.

Industry places a high priority on the capture of methane during oil and natural gas development and production.

2006 Goldman Prize winner from Liberia, Silas Siakor, together with his team at the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), is currently leading a public awareness campaign about the impacts of palm oil development and the explosion of corporate land grabs taking place in Africa and acrossDevelopment Institute (SDI), is currently leading a public awareness campaign about the impacts of palm oil development and the explosion of corporate land grabs taking place in Africa and acrossdevelopment and the explosion of corporate land grabs taking place in Africa and across the world.

The criteria include: using natural pests and composting in place of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers whenever possible; implementing no - burn policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut the risk of fires spreading into forest areas; sparing forests with high conservation value from development; taking measures to reduce air pollution; and creating catchment ponds to prevent palm oil mill effluent — a byproduct — from entering waterways where it would damage aquatic habitats.

Energy production is the main driver of the state's economy, providing more than 80 % of state government revenue and thousands of jobs.168 Continuing pressure for oil, gas, and mineral development on land and offshore in ice - covered waters increases the demand for infrastructure, placing additional stresses on ecosystems.

These include using natural pests and composting in place of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers whenever possible, implementing no burn policies, sparing high conservation value forests from development, taking measures to reduce air pollution, and creating catchment ponds to prevent palm oil mill effluent from entering waterways where it would damage aquatic habitats.

I've seen flaring even in South Texas (a place with one of the most dense networks of natural gas pipelines anywhere in the world) the last two years with development of the Eagle Ford shale as the developers produce oil and gas in locations that are new, and thus without pipelines (but in Texas they build them relatively quickly!).

Although governments and the oil industry claim that all of the land disturbed by tar sands development will be reclaimed, little reclamation has already taken place.

Given energy's central place in family budgets and U.S. economic and security objectives, the best tax approach is the one that encourages robust oil and natural gas development.

For those not following closely Salazar's first month on the job, the «again made clear» referred to there is in reference to the Secretary's halting of oil and natural gas development leases on public lands in Utah, also put in place in the last days of the Bush Administration.

Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar may think that oil shale has great potential but at least he's scrapping plans put in place by the Bush Administration to lease additional lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming for more development of the carbon nightmare fuel.

To put that into perspective, the current estimate of oil in place in the oilsands is about 1.8 trillion barrels, but only 10 - 20 per cent of that is economically extractable, and only a small fraction of these economic reserves are currently under development.

It is poorly understood in part because it has been poorly explained by its few advocates and because it has no place in the calcified model of discovery, development and depletion that guides all too much thinking about the development of oil fields.

Most of the dust that's settling in places like the San Juan mountains comes from the desert southwest, from land disturbances like farming, oil and gas drilling, cattle grazing, recreation and residential development on the southern end of the Colorado Plateau.

Advised Lekoil Limited, an AIM listed oil and gas exploration and development company with a focus on Nigeria and West Africa, in relation to the placing of 33,000,000 new Ordinary Shares at a price of 67.75 pence per Ordinary Share, raising gross proceeds of approximately USD$ 37.7 million.