Sentences with phrase «oil industry officials»

While the EPA notes that the proposal would add just 1 cent per gallon to gas costs, oil industry officials claim it could raise prices by 2 cents per gallon on average, and as much as 9 cents per gallon in some areas, according to a story in the Washington Post.

Oil industry officials objected to an earlier version of the bill, which would have required oil producers to only use recycled water during times of drought, a move they said would be tantamount to a moratorium on oil production in the state.

For the first time in months, oil industry officials are hopeful that crude prices could stick above $ 50 per barrel.

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Elected officials like former Premier Alison Redford and her cabinet ministers were essentially publicly - funded lobbyists as they travelled to the U.S. dozens of times to advocate for Keystone XL and other oil industry projects.

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For all their official production measurements, OPEC uses an average of estimates from six «secondary sources», namely the International Energy Agency (IEA), the oil - pricing agencies Platts and Argus, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the oil consultancy Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) and the industry newsletter Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, as an impartial adjudicator as to whether their output quotas and production cuts are being met, to resolve any potential disputes that could arise if each member reported their own figures.

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There is also no official classification or difference between «virgin coconut oil» and «extra virgin coconut oil» as there is in the olive oil industry, since the two oils are completely different in fatty acid composition, harvesting procedures, and terminology.

Some patient advocates and marijuana industry officials have said that limiting the drug to oil - based forms will cripple a marijuana industry before it has a chance to get off the ground in New York, because oil - based forms are more difficult and costly to produce on their own.

The debate about using dispersants is becoming increasingly politicized and acrimonious, and the National Academy of Sciences has recently assembled a committee of scientists, government officials, and industry to evaluate the use of chemical dispersants in oil spill response.

Oilcareers.com describes itself as «The Official Recruitment Site for the Oil and Gas Industry» and includes a careers advice section, as well as job listings.

Sen. Richard Durbin (D — Ill.) asked industry officials hauled to Capitol Hill to testify on skyrocketing oil prices.

BANGKOK (Reuters)- An oil spill that has blackened beaches at a Thai holiday island was having an extreme impact on tourism and could spread to the coast of the mainland and affect the fishing industry, officials and an environmental group said on Tuesday.

Represented the chairman of an official equity committee in the reorganization of Seahawk Drilling Inc., a company that provided drilling services to the oil and natural gas industries.

The official, Jason K. Burnett, once a Bush appointee and now an Obama supporter, told the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming that the argument for putting off any carbon dioxide limits was made by «individuals working for particular oil companies, Exxon Mobil,» as well as oil industry trade associations.

The president faces equally strong pressure from industry, the Canadian government, many Republicans and some Democrats in Congress, local officials and union leaders, who say the project will create thousands of jobs and provide a secure source of oil that will replace crude from Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and other potentially hostile suppliers.

These allegations and other issues will be the focus of a Senate Democratic Conference forum July 18 in New York City, spearheaded by Senator Tony Avella and other elected officials calling for stricter scrutiny of the DEC's relationship with the oil and gas industry.

Officials representing the oil and gas industry say the EPA distorted the science.

The Post Carbon Institute's latest report exposes inflated predictions by the Energy Information Administration of how much oil and gas is accessible by hydraulic fracturing that have led to local government officials relaxing restrictions on the fracking industry.

According to the notes, Michael Whatley, policy adviser of the fossil fuel lobby group Consumer Energy Alliance, which receives funding from Peabody Energy along with other coal, oil, and gas companies, underlined the industry's urgent need to mobilize state public officials, including legislators, attorneys general, environmental and public utility commissioners, and energy officials in many states.

Break the cycle of dirty energy money, particularly by elected officials at all levels of government pledging to refuse campaign donations and other forms of support from the oil, gas, and coal industries.

They also remind us that industry has a history of getting their forecasts wrong, noting that for oil, «the current price of more than $ US80 per barrel is about three times higher than the upper range in official forecasts for 2010 that were being issued in the late 1990s.»

For more than a decade, COGCC officials have interpreted this to mean balancing oil and gas industry interests against public health, safety and welfare.

«Elected officials and public agencies must put communities and the environment first, starting with removing special exemptions and subsidies for the oil and gas industry, while ushering in clean, renewable energy.»

The EIB and EBRD are official partners of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, set up to promote transparency and good governance in oil, gas and mining iIndustries Transparency Initiative, set up to promote transparency and good governance in oil, gas and mining industriesindustries.

The EIB and EBRD are also official partners of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, set up to promote transparency and good governance in oil, gas and mining iIndustries Transparency Initiative, set up to promote transparency and good governance in oil, gas and mining industriesindustries.

The briefing scenario, prepared for a senior Environment Canada official attending an industry awards gala organized by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), suggested that oil and gas companies didn't want a series of separate legislative changes, but rather an «omnibus» approach.

On June 8, 2005, the New York Times reported in a front page story: «A White House official who once led the oil industry's fight against limits on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play... Continue reading →

(11/08/2007) Officials from the Indonesian ministry of agriculture and the palm oil industry are distributing materials that misrepresent the carbon balance oil palm plantations, according to accounts from people who have seen presentations by members of the Indonesian Palm Oil Commissioil industry are distributing materials that misrepresent the carbon balance oil palm plantations, according to accounts from people who have seen presentations by members of the Indonesian Palm Oil Commissioil palm plantations, according to accounts from people who have seen presentations by members of the Indonesian Palm Oil CommissiOil Commission.

«Bush public relations appointees were muzzling scientists at other agencies, or altering scientific information in official agency reports to fit a preconceived ideological agenda,» Otto reports, with reference to a New York Times article detailing the actions of an oil industry lobbyist in the White House environmental office to manipulate goverernment climate research communication.

Yet despite Harrison Ford's expose on corrupt government officials, the episode has still failed to mention the European Union alone has provided $ 11 billion dollars in biofuel subsidies and the bulk of that has subsidized palm oil for the biodiesel industry.

Previewing the final quarter of Bush's presidency, [Administration] officials disclosed to Time that the Administration is formulating a huge energy initiative designed to «change the whole nature of the discussion» and challenge the G.O.P., Democrats, the oil and electricity industries, and environmentalists.

«A White House official who once led the oil industry's fight against limits on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play down links between such emissions and global warming, according to internal documents.

How many top gov» t officials are former oil industry executives?

Numerous environmental groups, businesses, state, and local officials are supporting a lawsuit against the oil and gas industry for its destruction of Louisiana's wetlands.

Comparing press reporting of workplace injuries with the actual official injury statistics (claims data from the Association of Workers» Compensation Boards of Canada), the study authors conclude newspapers «dramatically over-report» fatalities, injuries to men, injuries in the construction and mining / quarrying / oil industries and acute physical and traumatic injuries... «Basically, newspapers construct injuries as things that violently kill blue - collar men.»