Sentences with phrase «untapped oil reserves»

Alberta's economy is much more diversified than it used to be however it is impossible to replace the revenue generation of the Canadian oil sands, the world's largest pool of untapped oil reserves.

No, this is more a case of an experienced assistant leaving a 1 - 11 team for untapped oil reserves.

Not exact matches

After receiving pledges totaling more than its goal of $ 100 million by a year - end deadline, the Ecuadorian government last week announced that it would move forward with the so - called Yasuni ITT Initiative, an innovative plan to leave untapped more than 900 million barrels of crude oil beneath a pristine Amazonian nature reserve, in exchange for annual international donations.

Total untapped reserves estimated by the U.S. Geological Survey: 7.4 billion barrels of oil.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

But when you compare the amount of free solar energy falling on our heads every day against the increasingly scarce oil reserves created hundreds of millions of years ago, the economics become clear: We're letting untapped income go to waste, while we spend money digging up our savings and using it to destroy our home and our future.

We must take advantage of the estimated $ 50 trillion in untapped shale, oil, and natural gas reserves, especially those on federal lands that the American people own.

Our total untapped oil and gas reserves on federal lands equal an estimated $ 50 trillion,» he continued, as the crowd roared in approval.

That is especially true for Afghanistan's wealth of natural resources, which include around a trillion dollars of untapped minerals and substantial reserves of oil and gas.

«When you look at the untapped oil and gas reserves in the Arctic, much of that is in our Exclusive Economic Zone.

The research showed that the untapped reserves of coal, oil, and gas identified by the world's fossil fuel industry contained five times more carbon than we can burn if we want to keep from raising the planet's temperature by more than two degrees Celsius.

TreeHugger also has a lot of background on the issue: Why the World Should Pay Ecuador to Keep its Oil in the Ground Ecuador Moves Forward with Plan to Not Drill the Amazon in Exchange of Funds Ecuador Rainforest Conservation Plan Would Leave 20 % of Oil Reserves Untapped