Sentences with phrase «small oil town»

A loner with a love of cars, Tripp (Lucas Till) desperately desires adventure that he fears his small oil town can't offer.

Confronting Cancer at an Early Age Allison grew up in the small oil town of Alice, Texas, the youngest of three brothers.

Not exact matches

When Easton Wren arrived in Canada in 1968 to work for Amoco, Calgary was a small town with a tightly knit oil and gas industry.

Born in a small Saudi trading town, Suliman learned English, which proved indispensable when Western firms arrived to tap the region's oil riches.

Foreign oil companies would refuse to dish out any more money to develop the country's resources if it knew that it could be kicked out at any moment by overzealous prosecutors in small towns.

A recent study revealed that a small, oil boom town in North Dakota fetches rents that are, on average, $ 2,400 for a one - bedroom apartment.

OTTAWA — The police said on Sunday that at least five people had died and 40 were missing after runaway railroad tank cars filled with oil derailed and exploded in a small Quebec town.

That accident left 47 people dead and released millions of litres of oil into the air, water and soil when the runaway train crashed in the small Quebec town.

Large and small groups interested in non-hotel meeting spaces can find unique options in Old Town Downton Temecula at the Old Town Theater, a contemporary, proscenium theater with two performance / meeting venues; Temecula Olive Oil Company's historic building; and Baily's Restaurant, with both indoor and outdoor venues for meetings and groups up to 136 guests.

The train, which was carrying North Dakota crude to an oil depot in Yorktown, Virginia, derailed in a small town 33 miles (54 km) southeast of Charleston.

Hutton's first documentary feature was Crude Independence, a portrait of small - town life during the present - day oil boom in North Dakota.

When a small town in North Dakota suddenly becomes the center of an oil boom, it turns into a modern Deadwood.

The holiday trio, all presented on 35 mm, include: Magnificent Obsession, Sirk's dazzling drama about a reckless playboy who finds his life entwined with that of the woman whose husband's death he caused; Written on the Wind, a visually lush melodrama about a Texas oil magnate's downfall at the hands of his alcoholic son and wanton daughter; and All That Heaven Allows, a heartbreaking examination of love and class taboos in small - town America in the 1950s.

With oil prices now below $ 50 a barrel, I think it's safe to say that TV has missed its chance to come up with a relevant, compelling drama about the Bakken shale boom and the fascinating rush mentality it brought to small cities and towns in North Dakota and eastern Montana.

Among the multiple lines of critical and cultural discourse surrounding the film, however, one particularly stands out: the notion of There Will Be Blood — with its central conflict between cutthroat oil prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day - Lewis) and zealous small - town preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) in 1911 California — as a kind of demonic origin tale for the state of contemporary American political culture, with narrow - minded religious fervor and bald - faced capitalistic excesses forming two sides of the same tarnished coin.

But there was a California surfer dude accent (apparently this narrator's version of how teenagers sound - even from small - town Maine), southern oil barons (this is what evil guys sounded like - again, even if born and raised in Maine)- and the WORST was the idea that apparently all children under teenage had stuffed noses - always.

The Marauders, set in a small bayou town devastated by the BP oil spill, is a darkly hilarious debut novel from Tom Cooper.

The guest house is furnished with a fun vintage Hawaiian flare, including a 1930's vintage rattan living room set we found and shipped all the way from a small Texas town and original oil paintings by local Hana artists.

We based ourselves out of the small town of Cessnock, and joined one of the bus tours which took us around the local vineyards, cheese, olive oil, and chocolate producers.

Love In A Small Town is a clever title for this new oil painting created by world renown artist, David Michael Slonim.

One such disaster was the July 5 inferno that devastated the small Quebec town of Lac - Mégantic after an unmanned train with 72 tank cars carrying crude oil derailed and exploded, killing at least 42 people.

Fracking is a form of natural gas drilling An alternative to oil cause the oil kept spilling Bringing jobs to small towns so everybody's willing People turn on their lights and the drillers make a killing

Small towns like this one in western Crete, considered the birthplace of the famously healthful Mediterranean diet — emphasizing olive oil, fresh produce and fish — are now overflowing with chocolate shops, pizza places, ice cream parlors, soda machines and fast - food joints.

And, outside the main section where there is a small town, there is not much evidence of an oil field.

We talk to people involved in three Friends of the Earth groups, on the potential for community - owned and managed renewables in Denmark, on the perfect plan for transitioning Estonia away from dirty oil shale, and on how local resistance and perseverance has turned a small Czech town into an example of the just transition we need to move away from dirty fossil fuels.

Last week we reported here on the efforts of a small town in South West England to design for a prosperous future after peak oil.