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Huaorani natives march to call a referendum to ban the oil exploitation in the Yasuni National Park.

An award winning filmmaker, her most recent project is an interactive web documentary OFFSHORE that looks at the dark side of offshore oil exploitation in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

In a similar vein, China has been in a high profile dispute with the Philippines over oil exploitation in Philippines» territorial waters, with China essentially asserting that the Philippines can only develop there with China's permission and involvement.

Not exact matches

BreitBurn Energy Partners LP is a Delaware limited partnership, engaged in the acquisition, exploitation and development of oil, NGL and gas properties in the United States.

Examples of this last are oil in the Middle East, or the agricultural specialization (cotton, sugarcane, bananas, etc.) forced on a country that is totally the victim of exploitation.

Today, the Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG) released a publication titled, «Palm Oil Innovations: Labour Rights» on the heels of the 14th annual meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Bangkok, Thailand which highlighted worker exploitation issues in the palm oil sectOil Innovation Group (POIG) released a publication titled, «Palm Oil Innovations: Labour Rights» on the heels of the 14th annual meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Bangkok, Thailand which highlighted worker exploitation issues in the palm oil sectOil Innovations: Labour Rights» on the heels of the 14th annual meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Bangkok, Thailand which highlighted worker exploitation issues in the palm oil sectOil (RSPO) in Bangkok, Thailand which highlighted worker exploitation issues in the palm oil sectoil sector.

Recently Fairfax Media reported that oil giant Caltex had become embroiled in similar allegations of worker exploitation happening across a national franchise network of more than 650 stores.

However, we know from leaked documents that Shell paid and encouraged the military to step in to stop popular uprisings against oil exploitation, resulting in the suppression of dissent and deaths of local people.

Technology and exploitation of unconventional sources can't defer the long - predicted decline in global oil production

In their report, the MPs called for the UK government to use its observer status at the Arctic Council, a federation of the eight Arctic nations, to push for a ban on offshore oil exploitation — at least until we have the technology and institutions in place to contain oil spills in the Arctic, and a liability scheme so companies can prove they can bear clean - up costIn their report, the MPs called for the UK government to use its observer status at the Arctic Council, a federation of the eight Arctic nations, to push for a ban on offshore oil exploitation — at least until we have the technology and institutions in place to contain oil spills in the Arctic, and a liability scheme so companies can prove they can bear clean - up costin place to contain oil spills in the Arctic, and a liability scheme so companies can prove they can bear clean - up costin the Arctic, and a liability scheme so companies can prove they can bear clean - up costs.

New economic developments in the Arctic, such as trans - Arctic shipping and oil exploitation, will bring along unprecedented risks of marine oil spills.

From oil exploitation to waste disposal industries — and Greenpeace — need to know what is happening in the deeps.

The required additional fossil fuels will involve exploitation of tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking for oil and gas, coal mining, drilling in the Arctic, Amazon, deep ocean, and other remote regions, and possibly exploitation of methane hydrates.

When a U.S. - owned oil company, vile in its exploitation of the people and resources in this out - of - the - way locale, through unsafe and incredulous practices, has an oil well explode, with heavy, horrible casualties, our anti-heroes begin to align for the thrust of Sorcerer, William Friedkin's recently reappraised 1977 existential thriller.

Before Wes Craven hit box - office oil with A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream, he ruffled censors» feathers with his deeply upsetting 1972 feature debut, a exploitation film about an abducted and slain teenage girl — and the demolished parents who exact revenge on the criminals who unwittingly crash for the night in their home.

Teachers endorsed elements of each video game that could raise student awareness about global issues, though they were cautious in presuming that awareness alone would teach students sufficiently about the conflicts in the Middle East or the exploitation of indigenous people near oil reserves.

This book is focused on the challenges to implement sustainability in diverse contexts such as agribusiness, natural resource systems and new technologies.The experiences made by the researchers of the School of Agricultural, Forestry, Food and Environmental Science (SAFE) of the University of Basilicata offer a wide and multidisciplinary approach to the identification and testing of different solutions tailored to the economic, social and environmental characteristics of the region and the surrounding areas.Basilicata's productive system is mainly based on activities related to the agricultural sector and exploitation of natural resources but it has seen, in recent years, an industrial development driven by the discovery of oil fields.

Whiting Petroleum Corporation is an independent oil and gas company engaged in acquisition, development, exploitation, production and exploration activities mainly in the Permian Basin, Rocky Mountains, Mid-Continent, Gulf Coast and Michigan regions.

Concho Resources Inc. is an independent oil and natural gas company, which is engaged in the acquisition, development, exploitation and exploration of producing oil and natural gas properties.

BreitBurn Energy Partners LP is a Delaware limited partnership, engaged in the acquisition, exploitation and development of oil, NGL and gas properties in the United States.

Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the development, exploitation and exploration of oil and gas properties located in North AmeriOil & Gas Corporation is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the development, exploitation and exploration of oil and gas properties located in North Amerioil and gas company engaged in the development, exploitation and exploration of oil and gas properties located in North Amerioil and gas properties located in North America.

Background BBEP «engages in the acquisition, exploitation, and development of oil and gas properties in the United States.

IUCN has also learned that the Government of Belize is engaged in the formulation of an offshore oil exploration and exploitation policy that would be in line with its commitment to protect the OUV of the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System.

Another artist with whom Hoyland felt an affinity was Hans Hofmann, one of the least well - known of the American Abstract Expressionists, whose exploitation of the textural possibilities of oil made a strong first impression on Hoyland when Clement Greenberg first introduced Hoyland to him in 1964.

Alexis Harding's uses modernist devices such as grids, lines and arrows to make paintings which seem to be bound in their own materiality, driven by his exploitation of the incompatibility between artists» oil paint and household gloss paint.

A century long struggle to gain full control of its natural resources and refining capacities has been punctuated by many events: from the exploits of the Anglo - Persian Oil company (later to be known as British Petroleum or BP), in the early part of last century; to the CIA backed overthrow of the first democratically elected government in the 1950s, after it nationalized the country's oil fields; to the destruction toll of several oil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and gOil company (later to be known as British Petroleum or BP), in the early part of last century; to the CIA backed overthrow of the first democratically elected government in the 1950s, after it nationalized the country's oil fields; to the destruction toll of several oil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and goil fields; to the destruction toll of several oil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and goil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and goil and gas.

So while it is becoming more profitable to invest in alternatives to oil (ie, nuclear, coal, biofuels) the tendency towards crisis will continue because exploitation (human relations) hasn't changed.

No future historian will write a book about a world in which massive and ever expanding exploitation of coal and oil coexist with a safe landing on climate change.

The deep - sea exploitation of oil and gas has been going on for a few decades now, and we've seen what can happen when things go wrong a few years ago in the Gulf of Mexico with the massive oil spill that took place after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig...

Protesters fear environmental damage, especially from possible oil spills; are frustrated with oil companies» grip on US politics; and condemn the impacts of tar sands exploitation on the boreal forest and First Nations in Canada.

Much of Montana's past wealth and prosperity was built on exploitation of its abundant natural resources, from copper and timber in the west to coal and grazing lands in the east to oil and gas on the Rocky Mountain Front.

Outside the realm of conventional oil, the tar sands of Alberta and the oil shale of the Western U.S. exist in huge deposits, the exploitation of which is currently costly and accompanied by major environmental difficulties, but both definitely hold promise for a substantial increases in oil supply.

Gopal has been a campaigner for Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition on human rights and environmental justice in the high - tech industry and the Oil Campaigner for Project Underground, a human rights and environmental rights organization which supported communities resisting oil and mining exploitation around the worOil Campaigner for Project Underground, a human rights and environmental rights organization which supported communities resisting oil and mining exploitation around the woroil and mining exploitation around the world.

Proponents say the large investment in a pilot effort is important, to prove that Alberta has both the technology and geology to address the CO2 emissions that have marred the exploitation of its vast oil wealth.

The world imposed a moratorium on all hunts in 1986 after many species were driven towards extinction by decades of exploitation for meat, oil and whalebone.

The required additional fossil fuels will involve exploitation of tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking for oil and gas, coal mining, drilling in the Arctic, Amazon, deep ocean, and other remote regions, and possibly exploitation of methane hydrates.

The successful exploitation of those weaknesses by conservative political leaders and think tanks that are funded by oil companies has created a virtual standstill in developing cost - saving, alternative energy policies.

The exploitation of oil and gas, in addition to coal, is an affront to the World Bank's long - claimed goals of poverty alleviation and sustainable development.

The S.O.S. Adriatic coalition — which includes Zelena Akcija / Friends of the Earth Croatia — today welcomed the decision of Marathon Oil and OMV to withdraw from the exploration and exploitation of oil and gas in the AdriatOil and OMV to withdraw from the exploration and exploitation of oil and gas in the Adriatoil and gas in the Adriatic.

However, oil production in Ecuador's rainforests has left behind a toxic legacy, and odds are that Yasuni would face similar destruction if opened up for exploitation.

From First Nations and allies in British Columbia standing up to the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline to civil society and frontline communities in Argentina demanding a different development pathway to avoid the dangerous exploitation of massive shale oil and gas reserves, the resistance is global.

Two of the most environmentally destructive practices on the planet, palm oil plantations and tar sands exploitation, in one country in exchange for an unlikely sustainable future.

The oil giants also want to do more to promote natural gas, which has become more abundant because of recent developments in the exploitation of shale gas and emits half as much greenhouse gas as coal does.

Well, considering that the main original source of Islamic fundamentalism terrorism is the west's exploitation of middle - east oil, perhaps getting off oil would result in far less reasons for poor uneducated people to hate us.

Represented the Republic of Ecuador in an arbitration brought by a U.S. petroleum company, concerning Ecuador's termination of a contract for the exploitation of an oil field and claims of expropriation, in a proceeding conducted in Spanish and English.