Sentences with phrase «where oil wealth»

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He has used his oil - and - gas - derived wealth to develop the area surrounding downtown Buffalo's First Niagara Center, the arena where the Sabres play their home games.

Scotland's offshore oil platforms in the North Sea generate significant wealth for the nation — especially for the Shetland Islands, where oil tanker traffic boosts the local economy.

Against the backdrop of oil paintings depicting these events, the prologue concludes by noting that wealth and opportunity shifted away from black communities, where the only white people left were the police who patrolled the streets.

The new wealth of the Kingdom, in the cities beyond the mountains where there were wide highways and the oil wells with their networks of pipes, had not penetrated the Asir mountains.

They echo discussions following the losses of two space shuttles, the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher and many other realms where low - probability, worst - case outcomes, or unknown unknowns, can up - end the greatest engineering achievements at great cost in lives or wealth.

«Oil palm's considerable profitability offers wealth and development where wealth and development are needed — but also threatens traditional livelihoods.

The oil sands [are], because now you're looking at a situation where the only long - duration oil that's still available and isn't tied up by governments and sovereign wealth funds and everything else is in the oil sands.»