Sentences with phrase «oil infrastructure»

The trick now for activists is to stop more oil infrastructure.

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday at the State House in Abuja held a high - level meeting with leaders and other stakeholders to seek ways to end the militancy and the sabotage of oil infrastructure in the Niger Delta region.

This weekend, communities from across the northeast San Francisco Bay came together in the fourth of four «connecting the dots» refinery Healing Walks that connected fenceline communities facing refineries and crude by rail oil infrastructure in Contra Costa County.

The gut - check issue for McKibben and his supporters — thousands of whom turned out for a mass demonstration in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 17 — is the Keystone XL pipeline, a 3,400 - mile pipe proposed by oil infrastructure company TransCanada that will allow crude oil extracted from the tar sands of Alberta, in southern Canada, to be refined on the Gulf of Mexico.

s to build significant west - east oil infrastructure and ensure domestic priority, we would have lost out on a winning trade with the U.S. — for 23 out of the past 25 years, oil prices have been higher in the U.S. Midwest than at eastern Canadian ports (adjusted for quality) and the U.S. midwest is closer to Alberta.

A few things in the discussion surprised me, and it also forced me to think a lot more about oil infrastructure in this country and to put some numbers to the question, «What would it take -LSB-...]

There is a bitter irony to the idea that a storm, strengthened by human - caused climate change, carries the potential to destroy the very oil infrastructure that has contributed so much warming to our world.»

... we need a global regulatory mechanism — preferably within the Kyoto process — to ensure that countries act in concert to replace their coal and oil infrastructures with clean, decentralized energy systems based on wind, solar, hydrogen fuel and tidal energy.

However, as noted energy economist Mark Jaccard has pointed out, building new oil infrastructure does indeed have a direct effect on climate change.

I have a story in Science Times on new research showing that these «subsidized predators» are having a significant impact on migratory birds that next within three miles or so of oil infrastructure.

Given that infrastructure investments are made with decades in mind, which is the better bet: oil infrastructure or EV infrastructure?

Libya's five - year civil war has destroyed parts of the country's oil infrastructure and had brought oil exports to a two - year halt, until a 776,000 - barrel shipment left the Ras Lanuf port earlier this month.

The state - run energy giant's oil infrastructure will receive a $ 334 billion facelift by 2025, which will enhance the kingdom's ability to extract shale gas, the executive said at the Middle East Petrotech Conference in Bahrain on Monday.

Separatists groups in the Niger Delta have been wreaking havoc on Nigeria's oil infrastructure and output over the past couple of months.

(The worst oil spill in history occurred in 1991, when the Iraqi army ripped apart Kuwait's oil infrastructure and released more than 252 million gallons during the Persian Gulf War.

Of course if they are right, then a lot of countries are placing some sketchy bets on pipelines and oil infrastructure.

Which brings us to the truth of the matter: Ramping up drilling and oil infrastructure can provide some economic benefits, but holding down gasoline prices is not one of them.