Sentences with phrase «oil drilling permitting»

After a meaningless moratorium that was more symbolic than anything else, our government decided to speed up the offshore oil drilling permitting process.

The DEP has approved more than 40 oil drilling permits — while denying none — over the past five years.

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The federal government in Brasilia quietly reassured the oil community that drilling permits were under federal jurisdiction and that they should simply ignore the howls of discontent from local officials.

A subsidiary of an Italian energy company has received a federal permit to drill the first oil exploration wells in U.S. Arctic waters in two years.

Oil companies have also combined to create a Center for Offshore Safety in Houston, Texas, which is developing the environmental safety management systems now required by drilling permits.

$ 8 billion) over first ten years for deficit reductionObeys PAYGO; Starting in 2026, 25 % of auction revenues for deficit reductionFuels and TransportationIncrease biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.

But while drilling is permitted occasionally on federal reserves, only minimal amounts of oil and gas are produced.

In the meantime, The Times and International Herald Tribune have produced a hefty special section on global energy trends (some elements have enraged solar enthusiasts), the Obama administration has given BP its first post-spill permit to drill in the Gulf of Mexico and Michael Levi has roundly debunked a gushy jobs estimate from proponents of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

Though the art piece is in the northern part of the lake and remotely - located from any town or road, the plans to drill for oil five miles out by Canadian company Amoco have sparked protest from across the world, prompting the state to postpone the decision for a permit.

This week, he announced that the part of the agency which permits oil and gas drilling and collects royalties will be separated from the part of the agency in charge of inspecting the safety of oil rigs and platforms and enforcing the law.

For too long, for a decade or more, there has been a cozy relationship between the oil companies and the federal agency that permits them to drill.

«Onshore, oil companies have more than 7,100 approved permits to drill that they haven't used.

The CEA supports lifting moratoria on offshore and land - based oil and natural gas drilling, encourages the creation and expansion of petroleum refineries and easing the permitting process for drilling.

But just four days later, he directly undermined his own message, when his administration issued the final permit allowing Shell Oil to drill in the Arctic, despite the administration's own assessment that the chances of a significant oil spill in the area were 75 % — not to mention that a good deal of existing known oil reserves must be left in the ground to protect against global warmiOil to drill in the Arctic, despite the administration's own assessment that the chances of a significant oil spill in the area were 75 % — not to mention that a good deal of existing known oil reserves must be left in the ground to protect against global warmioil spill in the area were 75 % — not to mention that a good deal of existing known oil reserves must be left in the ground to protect against global warmioil reserves must be left in the ground to protect against global warming.

They proposed that Colorado not issue any new permits for oil and gas drilling «unless the best available science demonstrates, and an independent third party organization confirms, that drilling can occur in a manner that does not cumulatively, with other actions, impair Colorado's atmosphere, water, wildlife, and land resources, does not adversely impact human health and does not contribute to climate change.»

Subtitle A: Onshore Oil and Gas Permit Streamlining - Streamlining Permitting of American Energy Act of 2013 - Chapter 1: Application for Permits to Drill Process Reform -(Sec. 1111) Amends the Mineral Leasing Act (MLA) to direct the Secretary to decide whether to issue a permit to drill within 30 days after receiving a permit applicaDrill Process Reform -(Sec. 1111) Amends the Mineral Leasing Act (MLA) to direct the Secretary to decide whether to issue a permit to drill within 30 days after receiving a permit applicadrill within 30 days after receiving a permit application.

Key state regulations include: Review and approval of permits; well design, location and spacing; drilling operations; water management and disposal; air emissions; wildlife impacts; surface disturbance; worker health and safety; and inspection and enforcement of day - to - day oil and gas operations.

Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, slams a bill promoted by his own party leadership that would speed up lease sales and permitting for offshore oil drilling.

In the 1990s, the Ecuadoreangovernment gave a private oil company a permit to explore and drill on the Sarayaku People's land.

As we fill our vehicles with gasoline and watch the cost numbers whirl with artificially inflated prices, we might ponder, just why is it that, by refusing permits, our government did not allow us to drill for oil off the coast of Virginia?

Certainly, we've seen economic impact in the 2010 decision to halt deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and the subsequent slow pace of oil and natural gas permitting.

He permitted it to rubber - stamp dangerous drilling operations by BP — a firm with the worst safety record of any oil company — with virtually no environmental safeguards, using industry - friendly regulations drafted during the Bush years.

Dirty energy lobbyists, including those of Chevron, could effectively use hypothetical arguments of TTIP illegality to chill government action on both sides of the Atlantic to curtail hydraulic «fracking» for natural gas, deny permits for liquefied natural gas export terminals, close coal - fired power plants, and prohibit new coal mining, oil drilling, and oil / gas pipeline operations, among others.

Through court and administrative challenges of unlawfully issued permits and oil leases and advocacy work along with our coalition partners, Earthjustice has succeeded in keeping open the question of whether these seas should be open to oil drilling at all.

He promises to ask Trans - Canada to re-apply for its permit for the rejected Keystone Pipeline, which proposed to move tar sands oil in massive pipes through the Midwest down to the Gulf Coast, and he supports drilling off the Atlantic coast, which was halted by the Obama Administration earlier this year.

An update on the Chevron oil spill off the coast of Brazil: Reuters reports that the Brazilian police are investigating the incident, and police say that their observations show Chevron drilled 500 meters beyond what was permitted.

Both target the Mineral Management Service's permitting of oil drilling operations without environmental review.

Obviously the exact details will be forthcoming, but the New York Times, the Guardian, Reuters and others have gotten wind of what the plan will entail: Along the east coast, oil drilling will be permitted in some 167 million acres of ocean from northern Delaware to the central Florida coast.

As the US grants Shell its final permit to drill off the coast of Alaska, Russia, too, continues to prepare for a future with Arctic drilling as it takes steps to improve environmental safety in the Timan - Pechora tundra after a series of oil spills in recent years.

He includes nuclear energy, and insists on permitting more offshore drilling for oil and gas to give us more domestic sources, as we bridge to a new clean energy economy.

Pollutant Discharge Elimination Systems (WYDES) to the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality and Sundry Notices to the Bureau of Land Management Wyoming Oil and Gas Commission and Bureau of Indian Affairs for road applications of wastes / emulsions evaporation volumes for permitted evaporation systems and reclamation of drill pads and pipelines.

For example, the Obama administration has continued to issue new permits for oil drilling throughout the U.S. and there has been a mass expansion of the use of hydraulic fracking to extract natural gas.