For them, the tense weeks following the Deepwater Horizon explosion were a time of watching and wondering: Will
the oil reach our community?
Not exact matches
Ghana, President Akufo - Addo stated, has the opportunity to become a regional centre for light manufacturing for a market of some 350 million people in the ECOWAS
Community, projected to
reach 500 million by 2030, «by weaving together our numerous natural resources, like food produce, bauxite, iron ore,
oil and gas, with our talents and energy, to turn our nation into an economic powerhouse in West Africa, generating full employment for our teeming youth.»
«Especially landowners who are affected by the scoping of gas and
oil companies, and
reaching out to them and telling them that they don't have to do that, that there are options, that there's a
community that supports them and there's a whole state that wants our water to be clean.»
It is widely known within the energy
community that there is enough solar energy
reaching the earth each hour to power the world economy for one year, but few people know that the heat in the upper six miles of the earth's crust contains 50,000 times as much energy as found in all the world's
oil and gas reserves combined.
The Transition movement represents one of the most promising ways of engaging people and
communities to take the far -
reaching actions that are required to mitigate the effects of peak
oil, climate change and the economic crisis.
They point out that increased material wealth has not necessarily brought greater happiness, and they argue that more human - scale
communities can improve our daily lives in many ways that
reach far beyond adaptation to peak
oil.
Piers advised on probate issues in relation to the recent Mau Mau claim and was responsible for trust and property law and wayleave damages in the team of Counsel acting in large scale group litigation for the Bodo
community against Shell Petroleum, that
reached the landmark settlement in the Bonny - Bomu
oil pipeline litigation.