Sentences with phrase «shore oil drilling»

In the midst of a disastrous oil spill, we have a bill that incentivizes off - shore oil drilling.

and read some history and think about iron instead of copper / bronze, phonetic instead of pictographic writing systems, decimal systems instead of other archaic number systems, using coal instead of wood, mineral oil instead of whale oil, Haber - Bosch instead of chilean saltpeter, Fischer - Tropsch instead of drilling for oil, Off shore oil drilling etc..

I'm a mature reader, and yet if you gave me a book on my level about off - shore oil drilling, I couldn't read it.

Washington (CNN)- White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs just wrapped up his morning gaggle with reporters on Tuesday where he announced that the administration is close to lifting the moratorium on off shore oil drilling.

With more than a touch of irony, a motorcyclist who spent about 20 years as an off - shore oil driller is demonstrating that there are alternatives to fossil fuels.

Not exact matches

High school graduates can work as on - shore oil and gas well drillers or well servicers once they complete three to months of formal on - the - job training.

Oil majors and large independent drillers need to shore up their asset portfolios after several years of underinvestment during a price slump, analysts say.

March 31, 2010 • President Obama's reversal of a ban on drilling off most U.S. shores could put new oil and natural gas platforms in waters along the southern Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and part of Alaska.

Education regulations, like national standards and assessments, are at least as likely to be captured by the Edublob as the oil industry is to capture off - shore drilling regulations or the banking industry is to capture financial regulations.

For example, we reduced our overweight in Energy in recent quarters and have pivoted away from domestic onshore drillers to global players that have exposure to off - shore oil deposits that have traditionally enjoyed higher margins than onshore producers during a full energy cycle.

The sinister Dr. Wily has taken control of an off - shore oil rig to drill to the center of the Earth.

It's a political manuever to show that the same Republicans who want to drill off shore, ostensibly to lower gas prices, object to releasing oil from the SPR which would also ostensibly lower gas prices.

The president seems to have no clue about energy return on energy invested (oil shale and off shore drilling take huge amounts of energy leaving less net energy gain as a result).

In other shocking news, officials in Kuwait have announced that about 90 % of corals in their territorial waters are dead or dying; the first Hourglass Dolphin found in more than 150 years has washed up on the shores of New Zealand; Poison - laced mice are being airdropped into Guam to kill a rampant, invasive species of tree snake — there's a video, after the jump — , and in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, an old oil - drilling rig has been turned into a hotel catering to snorkelers and scuba divers — the type of project proposed by Morris Architects for the (pre-BP spill) Gulf of Mexico.

He is cynically exploiting oil prices that have nothing to do with past opposition by Democrats (and Republicans) to off - shore drilling and his other proposals.

In Brazil, the immediate remedies for this very real need are seen in the massive number of unharnessed rivers of the Amazon basin and in oil deposits in the jungles of Western Amazônia (not to mention the vast deposits of deep - drilled oil located off - shore along the coast of Rio de Janeiro which is another story).

Meanwhile, our President is in Brazil today telling the Brazilians they can drill off - shore in the Gulf of Mexico while the EPA continues to try to hogtie our oil companies so they can not drill there.

«I am honored to work with Ocean Champions to stop oil drilling off Florida's shores, prevent pollution of our beaches and waterways, and protect our sea life for future generations,» said Senator Soto.

While he projects an image of being a surfer and in touch with ocean conservation, in fact he supports off - shore oil and gas drilling.

The whalers shifted from Cape Cod to the Arctic because «just as in 2010 the oil - well drillers were in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico rather than up on shore, the easy - to - get resource had been exhausted.»

These critical messages are consistent with and complimentary to Surfrider Foundation's Clean Water Initiative, which focuses on protecting water quality in coastal watersheds and in the near - shore marine environment, and the Foundation's «Not The Answer» campaign, which focuses on raising awareness about the negative environmental and economic impacts of offshore oil drilling.

I wonder how much of that is on account of high oil prices (the US could bring them down by drilling in the Monterey county Shale deposit, which is estimated to have 3 years of oil for the US at current US oil consumption rates), ANWR, off - shore, etc..

You can help our country avoid another Exxon Valdez - style disaster and the oil spills caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita by telling the Interior Department to say no to off - shore drilling.

There are also many spills caused every year by off - shore drilling, many of them during the annual hurricane season, which is yet another major reason why we should end our dependence on oil switch to clean energy sources.

Reversing a ban on oil drilling off most U.S. shores, President Obama announced an expansive new policy that could put oil and natural gas platforms in waters along the Atlantic coastline, the Gulf of Mexico and part of Alaska.

Profile Accredited Chemical Engineer with over 10 years» experience in health, safety and environment, quality assurance, drilling fluids handling for off - shore & on - shore sites, developing personnel for major operators and service companies, such as Halliburton, TOTAL, Shell, PETRO - CANADA and Saudi Aramco, in the oil and gas industry in the US and Middle East.