Not exact matches
As a vice-president of parent company China National
Petroleum Corp. explained at an oil and gas
industry conference in Calgary, the company felt it was being shut
out of Canada's oilsands by political pressure from the U.S. and had lost confidence in Enbridge's ability to manage aboriginal opposition to the line.
It's a good thing the administration is so closely attached to the
petroleum industry, provides them with an unlimited supply of vaseline to hand
out to people like Perkins along with their White House trinkets.
Still, there is considerable traffic generated by the active
petroleum, agriculture, and cattle ranching
industries, and plenty of people driving to schools, commuting to work, or heading
out for weekend getaways.
Tom Zeller, Jr., formerly of The Times and now at Huffington Post, has written an excellent piece, «Energy Facts, And A Few Fibs, On Display At Presidential Debate,» laying
out the forces that do have an impact, and pointing to a valuable 2011 study from the Federal Trade Commission, Gasoline Price Changes and the
Petroleum Industry: An Update, which I just read and encourage you to explore.
«It just happens that the bottom has fallen
out of the
petroleum industry.»
As the American
Petroleum Institute pointed
out earlier this week, in 2010 the U.S. oil and natural gas
industry delivered $ 476 billion in benefits to the U.S. economy — more than three times the amount it earned.
¶ Responding to falling oil
industry revenues, the government of Algeria unveiled a suite of new programs meant to improve the country's financial situation, including a solar PV facility build =
out, and energy efficiency programs, and incentives to convert their vehicles to run on liquefied
petroleum gas rather than petrol / gasoline or diesel.
Aurora is one of dozens of start - ups vying to bring an algae - based product to market that will be competitive with
petroleum but does not take farmland
out of food production, an issue that has plagued the corn ethanol
industry.
Further, the corporate - funded campaign to play up uncertainties in climate science, carried
out through
industry associations like the American
Petroleum Institute and front groups like the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, has done its part to sow public confusion about the level of consensus in climate science.
In a lame effort to fill
out the TRNN video with other material which looked like fossil fuel
industry orchestrating things, a line from the American
Petroleum Institute's 1998 leaked «Global Climate Science Communications Team» memo was highlighted, while the narrator read it: «Victory will be achieved when average citizens understand uncertainties in climate science.»
As the state oil and gas commission points
out, only the cities of Denver, Colorado Springs, and Boulder have more jobs than the
petroleum industry.
Of course, the American
Petroleum Industry has fiercely opposed government regulation of greenhouse gas emissions — a sign that API is
out of touch with environmental realities.
Yet as detailed in the GAO audit, PHMSA did not require this practice in its proposed safety rule because the American
Petroleum Institute, the oil and gas
industry's largest trade group, claimed «its recommended practices do not direct operators to phase
out such wells because this practice may not significantly improve safety in all cases.»
Hesse has advised African states and oil, gas and energy companies on dispute resolution relating to upstream activities, international tenders, refinery projects, farm -
out agreements, and the resolution of conflicts in other contracts in the
petroleum and petrochemical
industries.
Still, there is considerable traffic generated by the active
petroleum, agriculture, and cattle ranching
industries, and plenty of people driving to schools, commuting to work, or heading
out for weekend getaways.