Sentences with phrase «on oil and gas extraction»

Orsted A / S, the Danish company built on oil and gas extraction, will issue its first green bonds as it moves toward completing a transition to renewable energy.

Norway is among the richest nations in the world but does not see a path away from its dependence on oil and gas extraction.

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Green groups oppose the project on the basis that pipeline expansion encourages the extraction of more oil and the release of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change.

Statistics Canada's estimate for MFP in the mining, oil and gas extraction sector has been on a downward trend for decades.

«The amazing achievement of the last going - on - seven years is that citizens at the grassroots level have held off a trillion - dollar payday because we have fought so hard and well to require meaningful regulation of oil - and - gas extraction,» said Walter Hang, president of Toxics Targeting, an environmental database firm.

He pledges to lower corporate taxes; support a fence on the U.S. southern border to improve security; repeal the health care bill; issue tax credits to students attending non-public and charter schools; support domestic energy production, including oil drilling, coal mining and natural gas extraction; and invest in creating alternative energy sources.

A group of state lawmakers is teaming up with environmental groups to ask Governor Cuomo's administration to ban the use of wastewater from hydrofracking and other oil and gas extraction from being spread on public roadways.

Likewise, Mr. Astorino seems intent on making an issue of hydraulic fracturing, the gas and oil extraction method known as fracking.

Congress questions the federal leasing programs Yesterday, Democratic Reps. Alan Lowenthal of California and Raúl Grijalva of Arizona introduced legislation that would raise the rate oil and gas companies pay for leasing public lands to «ensure that the American people are being fairly compensated for the extraction of resources on public lands.»

MPA rules vary, but may have restrictions on human uses such as fishing, habitat alteration, or oil and gas extraction in order to protect different ecosystems.

Concerns over hydraulic fracturing, an oil and gas extraction method that injects millions of gallons of freshwater and chemicals into shale, have largely focused on potential impacts on water quality.

Mining projects (37 %) and water impounded behind dams (23 %) are the most commonly reported causes of induced earthquakes, but unconventional oil and gas extraction projects using hydraulic fracturing, are now a frequent addition to the database, said Miles Wilson, a geophysicist at Durham University working on the HiQuake research effort.

The alternative pathway, which the world seems to be on now, is continued extraction of all fossil fuels, including development of unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking to extract oil and gas, and exploitation of methane hydrates.

Tour's scientific research areas include nanoelectronics, graphene electronics, silicon oxide electronics, carbon nanovectors for medical applications, green carbon research for enhanced oil recovery and environmentally friendly oil and gas extraction, graphene photovoltaics, carbon supercapacitors, lithium ion batteries, CO2 capture, water splitting to H2 and O2, water purification, carbon nanotube and graphene synthetic modifications, graphene oxide, carbon composites, hydrogen storage on nanoengineered carbon scaffolds, and synthesis of single - molecule nanomachines which includes molecular motors and nanocars.

The details of the report show that declines in manufacturing and mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction were the reasons for the negative month - on - month reading, with the 0.8 % contraction in the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction sector being the main drag as well as the most disappointing since it marked the third consecutive monthly decline.

Consider just how much commercial cred fracked gas & oil had 10 yrs ago, and then look at the current worldwide research efforts both on methane hydrates» extraction and also on coal - seam gasification.

A much larger body of law, he said, is focused on development — on managing resource extraction, for instance (think oil and gas leases)-- but is not crafted from the ground up with broader consideration for social and environmental impacts.

Depending on their location, such offshore installations may compete with a variety of other ocean activities, such as fishing, recreational activities, sand and gravel extraction, oil and gas extraction, navigation, and aquaculture.

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Credits for using giant machines to remove the gas are not likely to be accepted internationally for a long time, if at all, not least because the industrial infrastructure needed for extraction would need to be about as big as the infrastructure that puts it there — oil wells, coal mines, railways, pipelines, power plants, refineries and so on.

Gas and oil extraction there using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is on the verge of a boom.

«Between 2010 and 2014, the oil, coal, gas, utility, and natural resource extraction industries spent $ 1.8 bn on lobbying, much of it in defence of these giveaways,» according to Sanders and Ellison.

While it sets a historic precedent, it also falls short on ambition; current oil and gas extraction permits could run for another 25 years.

Unlike Brown, however, Newsom supports a ban on future oil and natural - gas extraction projects that involve fracking, a process that injects high - pressure liquid into rock formations to free up fossil fuels.

On the contrary, Figure 1 is a conservative estimate of potential emissions from tar sands because: the economically extractable amount grows with technology development and oil price; the total tar sands resource is larger than the known resource, possibly much larger; extraction of tar sands oil uses conventional oil and gas, which will show up as additions to the purple bars in Figure 1; development of tar sands will destroy overlying forest and prairie ecology, emitting biospheric CO2 to the atmosphere.

While the sun is setting on the «rip and ship» model of oil extraction in Fort McMurray, there could be a new dawn of prosperity if we can «pump and polish» or «mine and shine» our abundant oil and gas feedstocks.

Offshore oil and gas exploration have devastating impacts on the local environment and climate, and the continued extraction and consumption of fossil fuels is incompatible with the Paris agreement and limiting global warming below 1.5 °C.

«It emerged at the international level, through the combination of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low - cost alternatives to supposedly «offset» their continued and excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the «protection» of forests in their countries, (4) the interests of corporations that could profit from market - tradable «offset» credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn «unexploited» forests into a new market for this type of capital, through the commercialization of «environmental services» such as carbon sequestration, among others.»

An international agreement should be forged to place extraction caps on existing oil, gas and coal fields, to limit extraction.

After over six years of campaigning against fracking by Friends of the Earth Scotland and local communities, the Scottish government announced on 3 October to effectively ban unconventional oil and gas extraction - in short: fracking — in the whole country.

AND as fracking begins to overtake conventional extraction methods and promise us centuries of cheap fossil gas and oil, we're only beginning to understand its impact on water and communitiAND as fracking begins to overtake conventional extraction methods and promise us centuries of cheap fossil gas and oil, we're only beginning to understand its impact on water and communitiand promise us centuries of cheap fossil gas and oil, we're only beginning to understand its impact on water and communitiand oil, we're only beginning to understand its impact on water and communitiand communities.

Under the bill, there would be no new leases for extraction of fossil fuels — such as coal, oil, and gas — on all federal lands.

By the time Mitchell and Devon Energy combined to «crack the Barnett» in 2002, work on unconventional gas extraction had been underway for decades, tracing back to the oil embargo and even before that to the nuclear tests of the 1960s.

Interestingly, beyond this, despite considerable rhetoric about moving beyond debates about carbon - pricing, the report recommends that in order to avoid adding to the Federal debt, it would be necessary to impose new taxes, including increased royalties for oil and gas extraction, a tax on imported oil, a tax on electricity sales, and a «very small carbon price» (presumably from a modest carbon tax or unambitious cap - and - trade system).

Since Boulder County's five - year embargo was lifted in May, there has been an application from 8 North LLC, a subsidiary of Extraction Oil and Gas LLC, for a state drilling and spacing order on a 1,280 - acre area between Arapahoe and Baseline roads in the Lafayette - Erie area; as well as a proposal from Crestone Peak Resources to drill on 12 square miles near U.S. 287 and Colo. 52 between Lafayette and Longmont.

The alternative pathway, which the world seems to be on now, is continued extraction of all fossil fuels, including development of unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking to extract oil and gas, and exploitation of methane hydrates.

Since 2012 the PRRT applies to both onshore and offshore oil and gas, but it is set up as a tax on profits after all the exploration and extraction costs have been recouped, so it is usually many years before there is any benefit to Australia from the PRRT.

Since a sustainable future based on the continued extraction of coal, oil and gas in the «business - as - usual mode» will not be possible because of both resource depletion and environmental damages (as caused, e.g., by dangerous sea level rise) we urge our societies to -LSB-...] Reduce the concentrations of warming air pollutants (dark soot, methane, lower atmosphere ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons) by as much as 50 % [and] cut the climate forcers that have short atmospheric lifetimes.

Wolf campaigned on a platform of instituting a 5 percent extraction tax on oil and gas drilling in Pennsylvania, arguing that the money raised — an estimated $ 1 billion annually — would help boost state education funding.

And he will work to ease regulatory pressure on coal, boost oil and gas extraction, and remove policy supports for clean enerAnd he will work to ease regulatory pressure on coal, boost oil and gas extraction, and remove policy supports for clean enerand gas extraction, and remove policy supports for clean enerand remove policy supports for clean energy.

The ratio of energy returned on energy invested (EROEI) for fossil energy production has tended to fall as high - quality deposits of oil, coal, and natural gas are depleted, and as society relies more on unconventional oil and gas that require more energy for extraction, and on coal that is more deeply buried or that is of lower energy content.

The International Conference on Fossil Fuel Supply and Climate Policy explores the many opportunities for, and challenges of, these supply - side strategies for limiting coal, oil, and gas, recognizing that many countries rely on fossil fuel extraction and trade for their energy security, economic development, and political influence.

A new article in today's New York Times notes a similar favor Pruitt conducted at the request of Devon Energy lobbyists who were concerned about U.S. Bureau of Land Management rules that could restrict oil and gas extraction on public lands:

RFF researchers provide context and commentary on over 40 regulatory elements and other policies related to oil and gas extraction, transport, and use in the United States.

Drillers work in the oil and gas extraction industries and are responsible for the work performed on the drill floor.

The word «Development (s)» in this document means any exploration for or extraction of minerals (including oil, petroleum and gas) and all associated activities, such as construction of infrastructure, undertaken on Country.