Sentences with phrase «other oil and gas extraction»

Injuries caused by slips, trips, and falls are common in the oil fields and at other oil and gas extraction sites.

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.

Not exact matches

That includes not just coal but also oil and gas extraction, metal ore mining, stone quarrying and other jobs.

In other cases, the story is more nuanced: For example, oil and gas extraction firms benefit, while the producers of petroleum and coal products lose, echoing the tension between refiners and oil - shale producers.

In other words the cheapest and most sensible approach to reducing greenhouse gases from current 732 megatonnes to a 2020 target of 620 megatonnes involves shrinking the oil and gas industry by limiting bitumen extraction, and not building more pipelines.

The decision to reduce Bears Ears is expected to set off a legal battle that could alter the course of American land conservation, putting dozens of other monuments at risk and possibly opening millions of preserved public acres to oil and gas extraction, mining, logging and other commercial activities.

Canal construction, oil and gas extraction from the Gulf Coast, climate change and the routing of the Mississippi River and its land - building floods away from other delta areas have made the loss of land inevitable.

Shirzaei was careful to say that the injection of wastewater can come from processes associated with oil and gas extraction other than hydraulic fracturing.

Royalty income is classified into two major types that include the use of copyrights, trademarks and patents and investing in the extraction of gas, oil and other minerals.

Obama describes his efforts and plans to reform the Minerals Management Service and other agencies involved with overseeing oil and gas extraction.

«Like other forms of resource [extraction] in Papua New Guinea, oil and gas extraction is promoted as a model of development,» said Natalie Lowrey, Communications Coordinator for the Deep Sea Mining Campaign.

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.

«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.»

But, expanding California's cap - and - trade program to enable polluters to buy REDD credits also harms Californians — overwhelmingly low - income communities and communities of color — those who live near the refineries, power plants, oil and gas extraction sites and other high - emission industries that are the main cause of local and global climate disruption

Environmental justice is another concern because much of the oil and gas extraction in the country takes place in rural, minority and economically challenged communities where employment is scarce and people believe they have no other choice.

Sponsored by three activist groups — Oil Change International, Environmental Action, and The Other 98 % — the 30 - second ad was part of a crowd - funded campaign to point out the fatal flaw in ExxonMobil's business model to maximize oil and gas extraction across the globe regardless of the growing threat to the stability of Earth's climate system and thus the livability of the planet for our children, their children, and future generatioOil Change International, Environmental Action, and The Other 98 % — the 30 - second ad was part of a crowd - funded campaign to point out the fatal flaw in ExxonMobil's business model to maximize oil and gas extraction across the globe regardless of the growing threat to the stability of Earth's climate system and thus the livability of the planet for our children, their children, and future generatiooil and gas extraction across the globe regardless of the growing threat to the stability of Earth's climate system and thus the livability of the planet for our children, their children, and future generations.

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.