Sentences with phrase «oil is under threat»

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«Projects in Venezuela, Mexico and Argentina all slowed significantly during the first quarter, while those in Venezuela are under threat for the rest of the year due to the difficult economic conditions within the country caused by the fall in oil prices» commented Philip Maddocks, Market Analyst, Futuresource Consulting.

«Not only has its government listened to calls to protect the Belize Barrier Reef, which only last year was under threat from seismic oil exploration, it has stepped up to become a world leader in ocean protection by ending all oil activity in its waters.»

I make precisely as much money from granting agencies for shooting down Jelbring's absurd paper as I do from the Big Oil companies for stating that the preponderance of evidence suggests that the very real GHG - GHE is not a catastrophic threat under any reasonable scenario for the economic and technological development of the world for the rest of the 21st century.

The Sabangau rainforest is home to the world's largest populations of orangutans and Southern Bornean gibbons, but places like this are increasingly under threat across southeast Asia from conversion to oil palm, a crop that's used to produce biofuels for foreign markets like Europe.

Are world oil and gas supplies under threat?

Recently, Osborne participated in an iLCP - backed trip to the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, working to photograph the beauty and diversity of one of the last in - tact temperate rainforests left in the world which is under threat from an oil pipeline project.

Markey goes on to use his 1:45 of air time to make the point that as the US intervenes in Libya because of oil, funding for renewable energy is under threat from Republicans and that we ought to be developing a more sustainable energy policy than just more -LRB-!!!)

It does derive most of its earnings from oil, but this market is under no threat any time soon: oil is unparalleled as a transport fuel.

Recently, it has been widely reported that some of Ecuador's forests are under threat as they lie above oil reserves.