Sentences with phrase «resources like oil»

Bottled water consumes way too many resources like oil, and up to 40 percent of the bottled water sold in the U.S. is nothing more than tap water, put into plastic bottles and trucked to you, at a ridiculously inflated price.
We are getting close to world peak production on resources like oil and natural gas, and we shouldn't be using them to dig up coal and make even more pollution delivering WY coal to Georgia.
But even more valuable than natural resources like oil is the value of urban land.
Where we once might have read that vampiric corporatism as a metaphor for natural resources like oil, it's hard today to see it as anything other than the radical changes that we are seeing in the global climate.
Any natural resources like oil, gas, metals, salt, even geothermal activity etc. (with the exception of sand, gravel, clay) do not belong the owner, but are considered ownerless until mined which needs a separate admission from the government (Some specific natural resources can even be only mined by the goverment which conveniently can transfer the rights).
(Unlike Scotland, Wales has neither sufficient population nor resources like oil that could finance an independent country.)
The oil find provides us another opportunity to use a major resource like the oil to develop the region.»
In other words, without access to a natural resource like oil and gas these people are nothing, they are almost sub-human.

Not exact matches

It will help small to medium - sized American oil companies like Continental Resources, Oasis Petroleum, and Whiting Petroleum get their product to market faster, safer, cheaper, and more efficiently, compared to alternatives, like rail.
Like many oil and gas producers, Paramount Resources, Clay Riddell's original and largest company, came storming back in 2016 after a miserable 2015, which saw Riddell lose his billionaire status.
Vredenburg says for this reason, it is best to use EROI to compare «like» resources such as oilsands and conventional oil, and not to venture comparisons too far beyond.
Natural resources such as oil as well as basic foods like corn are two common types of commodities.
The oil sands, like any oil or gas resource, are being developed in response to continued and growing demand for oil and related products.
Like the Tories that ruled Alberta for nearly 44 years, Mr. Wall's party never saved anything from the resource boom in his province, and the recent decline in oil prices has left both provinces in a royalty bind.
The PC Party has released some radio ads and its supporters in corporate Calgary, like oil company CEO Brian Ferguson, have spoken out against the NDP proposal to review natural resource royalties.
In some things, we see the effect in the earth, that we can use resources faster than they can replenish themselves; like the fish in the sea or the oil in the ground, we have to seek what we need further and deeper.
Colin... oil is a natural resource... like metals or any other natural resource.
The USA has significant material needs, like, for example, oil (the USA, which is 5 % of world's population, consumes more than 25 % of world's oil and other resources).
Do they belong to those who have the capacity to tap the resourceslike offshore oil deposits, for example?
The plan may also include efforts in parts of the world where ingredients are sourced — like Indonesia, a huge source of palm oil for processed food manufacturers — such as providing communities with technology and resources to harvest and utilize local foods more efficiently.
It means looking at fatherhood as a national resourcelike North Sea oil, the air we breathe, the countryside we savour.
President Mahama, said with the country's nascent oil sector it is prudent that it takes experiences from oil rich countries like Trinidad and Tobago to guide the resource.
«Emphasis should be on adding value to the primary commodities like oil before exporting them in order to get the desired yield like other nations from natural resources
The government manages several natural resources like Gas, Coal, Iron, Gold, Oil, Sea, Water, Mass Transport Services (subway), Trains, Sea transport, Electricity, and has a company in the telecommunications sector.
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.»
Like Egypt, Tunisia, and Syria (and like Israel, for that matter), Jordan lacks significant natural resources; the country has little oil or fresh waLike Egypt, Tunisia, and Syria (and like Israel, for that matter), Jordan lacks significant natural resources; the country has little oil or fresh walike Israel, for that matter), Jordan lacks significant natural resources; the country has little oil or fresh water.
«Finding a resource so large is like finding an oil field in your garden,» says Cristina Archer, an environmental engineer at the University of California, Chico, and lead author of a global survey on high - altitude winds.
Talks likely to continue, but slowly Japan, meanwhile, focused on ways to curb more emissions by midcentury instead of by 2020; Saudi Arabia, like India, insisted that the burden of doing more to cut emissions falls squarely on the shoulders of industrialized countries — which, within the world of U.N. climate talks, does not include Saudi Arabia, despite its wealth and vast oil resources; and Qatar, which is hosting the next major climate conference but which has historically played a quiet role in the talks, did not offer a submission.
But in agriculture and in resources too, you know, things just like oil.
«Other options like rail or truck are not feasible for the transportation of large quantities,» said Elizabeth Shope, anti — tar sands advocate with environmental group the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a conference call with reporters, noting that such alternative transportation more than triples the cost of moving tar sands oil.
The European company that's also behind other household names like Lipton and Axe is aiming to operate entirely on renewable resources and source all of its palm oil sustainably by 2030.
But in parallel play, it also brought in a self - proclaimed «law and order» president and cabinet who are fixated on mining earth - based resources (Virgo) like coal and oil at the expense of water (Pisces).
Different mixed media painting techniques, using glue, string, card, wax, paper to manipulate and to create texture with acrylic paint Looking at famous artists like Jackson Pollock, Frank Auerbach, David Bomberg, John Hoyland and Howard Hodgkin Resources: Acrylic paint, Sponges, sticks, large and small paintbrushes, credit card, string, glue, Punchinella, kebab sticks batik wax, sand, tissue paper, scrap paper and glue guns, Creating a number of different textures with acrylic paint and see what other mixed media layering one can achieve with chalk and oil pastel as well to layer over the acrylic paint.
A good employee training manual template will be a great resource to your company; like an oil well that never...
To do that, start by selling any lower - quality Resource stocks you own, while hanging on to high - quality issues like, say, Teck, or Imperial Oil.
While it's true that the total accessible supply of gold keeps growing (although rather slowly as was mentioned earlier) the fact remains that gold, like oil, is a non-renewable natural resource.
The top resource companies — like Imperial Oil or Encana — acquire a lasting competitive advantage by developing their expertise in these areas.
Since Rosetta Resources is in the oil and gas exploration and production industry, like most of its peers its stock price appears currently below fair value.
And trawling through a few boards, it seems like there are plenty of people out there who believe they've got a well - diversified portfolio simply because they own 5 different resource stocks (not all oil stocks, you know; — RRB --RRB-!?! This idea's even more insane than the stocks themselves.
[For example: To decide — in true muppet fashion — that 10 mio bbls of prospective oil resources are worth up to a $ 1 billion... well, that's just like believing a lottery ticket's actually worth the jackpot two minutes after you bloody bought it!
It's like saying, in an example using oil, that I believe that even though oil becomes a rare resource in the long run, human workers will find an alternative to oil and will lead to better living standards for all of us.
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.
Responding to comments 14, 25, and 56: I'm a policy analyst in Seattle, well - read on the impacts of climate change, but also other global resource constraints — like peak oil, peak phosphorus and the limits of industrial agriculture, waters supply (closely related to climate), and human systems / governance.
We in the US who consumer 20 % of the earth's resources are because we are so addicted to oil and many of us, like you, can not see that reliance on non-renewable sources of energy must be thrown on the ash heap of history if we are to survive as a species.
Other EITI members include major oil producers like Iraq and Indonesia, as well as poor but resource - rich countries like Liberia.
«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.
Biomass can be a renewable resource and can be a better option than fossil fuels like oil, gas, and coal.
In fact, even to reach that level would require exploiting resources like tar sands and oil shale that are not only environmentally problematic but also expensive to process.
With oilmen like Harold Hamm, CEO of Continental Resources, and Forrest Lucas, the founder of Lucas Oil, named as potential candidates to lead the departments of energy and the interior, respectively, in a Trump administration, the mostly likely historical analog for the next few years could be the start of Ronald Reagan's presidency, when he appointed senior officials who were often hostile to the policies of their own agencies.
Well, fooling people is now a highly paid, highly skilled profession, so maybe you can now at least fool the majority of the electorate for a long enough time to accomplish the goal, whether you are engaged in an illegal war for control of some oil resources, or a global warming denial disinformation campaign, for control of the right to keep burning as much oil as you feel like.
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