Sentences with phrase «said oil and gas development»
In the years since the last vote on ANWR, she said oil and gas development on state lands has expanded to border the Arctic refuge on the east, bringing infrastructure closer to the region.
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«As the oil and gas industry becomes mature there, companies are going to have to have a bunch of sub-sea systems that will have to be monitored,» said Dean Richter, a retired navy submarine captain and director of development for maritime transportation systems for New Jersey - based QinetiQ North America.
«As natural resources become strained in other parts of the world, the Canadian Arctic will be an increasingly attractive place to do business,» he says, «whether that's thanks to oil - and - gas development or alternative energy.»
Williams's real estate development company in Baton Rouge had been «body - slammed,» he says, when an oil - and gas - price crash rocked the Louisiana economy.
«Let's say there's a subsea development of a field,» says Lorenzo Simonelli, who runs the oil and gas business.
«There's a question of whether going along with the approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline will make LNG development in B.C. more challenging by angering First Nations so adamantly opposed to the oil sands pipeline,» said George Hoberg, a professor at the University of British Columbia's school of forestry and founder of UBCC350, a group pressing for action on greenhouse gas emissions.
«Speaking to members of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, the Scottish Environment Minister Paul Wheelhouse said the ban should be extended «indefinitely» and that «the Scottish government will not support the development of unconventional oil and gas in Scotland.»
Minister of State for Private Sector Development and Public Private Partnerships, Dr Rashid Pelpuo, who represented President John Dramani, said it was government's hope that the summit would affect government policy in the oil and gas sectorhttp: / / ghanapoliticsonline.com
He said: «Setting the records straight, the idea of siting a tertiary educational institution in the crude oil and gas - rich Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State was first proposed and adopted under the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo as a critical component in the roadmap to peace and sustainable development of the Niger Delta.
Mr Ato Panford, the NPP parliamentary candidate for Shama Constituency, said this during a recent parliamentary candidates» debate held on the theme: «Election 2016 - Prioritizing Fisheries and Oil and Gas Governance Issues for Inclusive Development».
The results are somewhat surprising, especially because similar studies have shown that oil and gas development affect prairie chickens, Sandercock said.
«The committee took a positive step forward by passing this bill which recognizes the importance of additional offshore oil and natural gas development and Canadian oil to our nation's energy and economic security,» API President Jack Gerard said in a prepared statement.
Polasky said that it's important to account for landscape changes resulting from oil and gas development, but many other types of development alter ecosystems and the use of land, including urbanization and expansion of cropland.
Many emission factors used to estimate releases of methane — a potent greenhouse gas associated with oil and natural gas development — are «far too low,» says Robert Howarth, an ecology and environmental biology professor at Cornell University.
In addition to stopping building new coal - to - gas projects, the policymaker also said in the media report that China will cool down the development of other forms of coal - to - chemicals projects, with a plan to produce 6.6 million tons of coal to oil and 15 million tons of coal to olefins by 2020.
Gas hydrates — a mixture of ice and methane — are found only under high pressure and at cold temperatures, and they are expected to make up a significant portion of the energy mix once existing oil fields dwindle, says David Scott, manager of the Northern Resources Development Program for Natural Resources Canada.
Greenpeace said earlier this month it would encourage British landowners to join together in legally opposing fracking, a move that could strengthen the opposition to exploration and development of shale oil and gas.
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.
Ellen Baum, senior scientist with the Clean Air Task Force, said today's news makes it more urgent than ever that black carbon and methane from pending Arctic oil and gas development be minimized.
He says Alaska will need much more coastal infrastructure to handle increased shipping and other commercial activities like offshore oil and gas development.
«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.
«We must do more to combat climate change,» President Obama said during his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, calling for more renewable energy while promising to speed permits for oil and gas development.
«The take - home message of our study is that if you do an integration of 20 years following the development of the gas, shale gas is worse than conventional gas and is, in fact, worse than coal and worse than oil,» Howarth said.
«In Nuiqsut,» Ahtuangaruak said, «we're completely surrounded by oil and gas development.»
Federal law controls fossil fuel production, and Congress has encouraged oil and gas development, they said in court documents.
As we say, a good development that ultimately could lead to more domestic oil and natural gas in support of America's ongoing energy revolution, greater U.S. energy security, the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs and positive economic growth into the next two decades.
It's like what happened in Pennsylvania when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court finally interpreted the state constitution to actually mean that local communities can block, for example, fracking operations in the Marcellus Shale seeking to extract oil and gas and saying that these communities and the people that are affected have a right to at least contest these kinds of developments.
GL's Stute said using retrofitted oil and gas industry vessels will work with prototype and smaller projects in the earliest stage of U.S. offshore development but «for building a large scale wind farm to a very tight time schedule» he is dubious.
Milito said securing America's energy future will hinge on clearing away unnecessary obstacles to safe and responsible development of our natural gas and oil reserves:
Let's say we shut down and decommissioned coal mines and coal - fired power plants, stopped new offshore drilling for oil and gas plus the development of shale oil and gas, moved away from nuclear power as too risky, spent trillions to subsidize non-viable windmills and solar panels to squeak by in avoiding a total blackout by imposing exorbitant taxes on energy in order to force people to cut back its use.
Increasing funding for ARPA - E, said Rafe Pomerance, former deputy assistant secretary of state for environment and development and currently an environmental consultant, «you get new technologies that undercut coal, oil, and gas.»
If it's not the PTC, he said, perhaps it will be Master Limited Partnerships, which currently offer tax advantages for development of oil and gas but not for wind and solar.
In a statement, Ramon Espinosa, of the International Development Bank, said: «Well managed, mining, oil and gas can deliver sustainable economic benefits to civil society, industry and government.
«They've realized for a number of years now that they've needed foreign capital and foreign expertise to come in to help rejuvenate their production levels,» says Ryan Keays, an oil and gas lawyer for Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, who has been going down to Mexico for the past year and a half in order to follow the development of the reforms.
«America is now leading the world in oil and natural gas development and refining, a reality that was unimaginable just a decade ago,» said Gerard.
Florida Petroleum Council (FPC) Executive Director David Mica has said that state Senator Dana Young's proposed legislation to ban oil and natural gas production is out - of - step with Florida consumers and families who are seeing the economic benefits of domestic energy development.
Ireland's oil and gas industry is still at an early stage of development, with limited expertise in the local market, O'Brien says.
Supporters of this and similar measures have said that the measures were proposed on the premise that home values are negatively impacted by oil and gas development.