Sentences with phrase «projects like oil»

The changes were requested by the oil and gas industry in the hopes that they'd expedite the approval of projects like oil pipelines and tankers, but they had an opposite effect.

What's more, under these new laws, citizen groups will likely be shut out of environmental reviews of big projects like oil pipelines.

The tribe has taken the lead against local projects like oil terminals that would further climate change and threaten its existence.

Liberals have pledged to consider greenhouse gas impacts in approving major projects like oil pipelines — something the Conservatives opposed.

Not exact matches

Given the projected growth in the oil sands, this might seem like a sure thing, but it's not.

Sometimes, the harm is overt, like in the case of BP's oil spill, but often it's more subtle, like when employees invest hope and time in a project that fails.

We apply this to our teams, so say it's an eight - week project, we're going to meet once a week for 15 minutes to make sure everything's functioning like a well - oiled machine.

The choices are that much starker at large international oil giants like Chevron that rely heavily on their massive budgets to fund exploration projects crucial to finding new energy sources.

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Projects like the Keystone Pipeline (to bring Canada's oil sands to American refineries) are unlikely ever to be built.

Soon, Lake explains, he'll start looking for a lifestyle increasingly on offer to mobile young people like him: work at a northern Alberta oil sands project, but live further south, either flying in and out of a camp or driving up once a week.

The recent oil shale boom was powered mostly by small firms because larger multinationals like Exxon and BP are structured for big payoff, technically - difficult projects like deep water drilling and Arctic exploration.

I am not suggesting that an oil sands project like Shell's could never be «justified in the circumstances» under CEAA, 2012.

To be certain, the opposition to projects like the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry Alberta oil sands products to US markets, and the Northern Gateway pipeline, which would carry oil sands products to a new west coast terminal for export to Pacific markets, has caused delays and increased costs to proponents.

Elected officials like former Premier Alison Redford and her cabinet ministers were essentially publicly - funded lobbyists as they travelled to the U.S. dozens of times to advocate for Keystone XL and other oil industry projects.

In recent years, oil and gas majors like Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell have invested billions of dollars into LNG projects in countries like Australia and Qatar, while further vast sums have been spent on plants that turn LNG back into gas in consuming countries, all in the belief the world's need for the fuel would rise rapidly — especially as countries, particularly in Asia, sought to move away from more polluting -LSB-...]

I would like to share with you the work of our senior economist Marc Lee, who heads up our Climate Justice Project, as well as the work of one of our research associates, veteran earth scientist David Hughes (who spent 32 years working for the Geological Survey of Canada, where he focused on unconventional gas, coal and oil research).

His Vice President mesmerised the whole world with his famous $ 15 million addressing system, his cousin, the Finance Minister sat in his room with his wife and business associates and issued a $ 2.25 bond on behalf of the people of Ghana, his ministers are inflating cost of projects in the name of «typo error» and his cousins selling our oil like tomatoes on Mallam Atta market.

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.»

KERRY: The senator has proposed «a new Manhattan Project to make America independent of Middle East oil in 10 years» by increasing the use of alternative fuels like ethanol and insisting that standards for auto mileage be raised.

Global fossil - fuel emissions, like the CO2 emitted from the natural - gas flare at this North Dakota oil well, could show a decline this year, says a Stanford - led Global Carbon Project report.

«We were studying agostic bonds in a project to make liquid fuels like methanol from carbon dioxide to replace fuels we get from oil,» said chemist Morris Bullock at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Collaboration, dear reader, is in fact the secret sauce to making sure your eLearning project runs like a well - oiled machine, like a dream come true, indeed, like magic!

We actually started on this project over a year ago but didn't tell you about it because we wanted to make triple sure that it worked like a well - oiled Mercedes engine.

The fact most of their exposure comes from oil, gas & petrochemical projects is doubly encouraging for me — I particularly like the increasing emphasis on gas & LNG.

Colleagues may feel like friends when you're burning the midnight oil to finish a project, but you should never forget that you're among your fiercest competitors, says Jamie Gruman, a professor of organizational behavior at the University of Guelph in Ontario.

Like much of Texas, Houston has benefited from the oil and gas boom created by fracking projects — particularly Eagle Ford Shale in the southern part of the state.

There are three types of resources in Act of Aggression: Oil, which is used for basic units and structures; Aluminum, which is used for more tech - focused projects; and Rare Earth Metal, which is used late - game on things like powerful units or superweapons.

Some of the later works by contrast look achingly simple: Accord (1985) is a clean, vertical rectangle of aluminium, bolted to the wall at its four corners, with one part of it, near the top, projecting towards you into a Malevich - like white, oil - painted square.

The series of oil paintings, a nearly decade - long project whose tremendous canvases capture both the cathedral - like scale of the abandoned factories and the echo of the human industry they once hosted, is the subject of a solo show that opens Friday, February 29, at the Crisp Museum in Cape Girardeau.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon recently announced a $ 85 million pilot project to produce biodiesel from non-food crops like jatropha and castor oil plant so as not to avert food crops from the mouths of its hungry populace, EcoAméricas reports.

Despite its huge oil and gas footprint, Calgary - based Enbridge has heavily diversified into renewables in recent years, from its fleet of onshore wind farms in North America to its fast - growing role in the European offshore wind sector, where it owns stakes in projects like the 400MW Rampion off the UK.

«Beyond holding carbon - intensive projects like the Keystone pipeline accountable for their emissions, the president can do a lot more to cut oil use and the emissions it causes.

It was the first commercial development on the Athabasca oil sands, although small, earlier projects like that at Bitumount also played a role in development.

Our elected representatives are choosing to allow corporations to put us all at greater risk of dangerous climate impacts every time they approve new climate - damaging projects, like new coal, oil, or gas projects.

With projects like rail terminals, pipelines east and south, and other infrastructure underway to move oil sands, Keystone XL barrels would be far from marginal.

Development of extreme energy projects like the Alberta Tar Sands, Bakken Shale Oil and coal from the Powder River Basin, has fueled an explosion in proposed fossil fuel infrastructure in the Northwest.

RSPB highlighted their current work in forests, focusing on their international campaigns like the Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project, whose on - the - ground work is making a difference to places like the Harapan and the Sabangau rainforests, on the front line of advancing wave oil palm which is driving deforestation and the corrupt conversion of forest for plantation concessions.

Biodiesel made from waste streams like used restaurant oils is one part of UCS's plan to reduce projected U.S. oil use in half in 20 years.

On the eve of the 2017 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, Oil Change International and E3G have launched briefings showing that while some multilateral development banks are making good progress on climate action, many are still financing billions of dollars in fossil fuel projects despite mounting climate impacts and global commitments like the Paris Agreement reached in December 2015.

Thus, Trump's budget might threaten projects like a $ 3.8 billion plant in Lake Charles, Louisiana, meant to turn oil - refinery waste into valuable chemical projects and to capture carbon for oil recovery; that project relies on a $ 2 billion Department of Energy loan.

Like other pipeline projects, this one would create significant risk of oil spills, create few jobs, and provide little oil to Eastern Canada and do little to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, because most of it will be sold to the highest bidder and sent overseas.

It also doesn't sound like Trump is going to be particularly finicky about oil spill protections, given that he's pledged to «streamline the permitting process for all energy projects.»

«The World Bank itself has laid out a stark picture of what a world with four degrees of warming looks like, yet it continues to pump billions into projects exploring for new fossil fuel resources that must not be burned in any reasonably safe climate scenario,» said Elizabeth Bast, Managing Director of Oil Change International and co-author of today's analysis.

Construction of a project like this with such a short time - frame is a challenge and definitely required some burning of the mid-night oil.

But we should especially avoid using more tar sands oil that would be transported through projects like the Keystone XL pipeline.

Because there are no good markets for these industrial negative emissions projects today, the only viable way for companies to develop and test the components for these solutions today is through CCS projects like Petra Nova (e.g. on a coal power plant with the CO2 utilized to drill for more oil).

Over the last two decades, global warming activists succeeded in slowing the development of the oil sands, blocking major pipelines like Keystone XL, phasing out coal plants and banning shale gas and oil projects.

Lawrence Solomon: Over the last two decades, global warming activists succeeded in slowing the development of the oil sands, blocking major pipelines like Keystone XL, phasing out coal plants and banning shale gas and oil projects.

In theory, a plan that eliminated tax breaks for oil companies and channeled the funding towards high speed rail projects that generated thousands of new jobs seems like a fantastic idea.