It would give Russia total gas control over South East Europe, and inherent hegemony over Ukraine given that Kiev would lose its current role as a European transit state.
They have already clashed twice with the police, who used tear-gas to control them.
In Greece police used tear gas to control farmers calling for even more subsidies.
History suggests that such a perception is an invitation to aggression, making war more likely and adding further, albeit utterly unquantifiable costs to the potential bill associated with greenhouse gas emission control regimes.
Total could also take the mantle, but while ExxonMobile has a history of timely efficiency in its projects, the Kazhak government probably fears a loss of bargaining power by letting the biggest oil and gas company in the world take control of its gas field.
For sure, they will not again use barite in any heavy muds sent down these holes to keep gas kicks under control in the future.
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In Pennsylvania, seven municipalities have filed a lawsuit challenging a 2012 state law that takes away their ability to control gas drilling operations through local zoning.
So is the reason to do that, the reason to close these unwarranted loopholes, as you say, is the reason to control gas prices or is the reason to address the deficit, primarily?
Nabucco could still be built to carry Middle Eastern gas, but Russia will have ensured continued control over Caspian gas reaching Europe.
It contained details on refined plasma actuator technology, which uses ionized gas to improve aircraft control.
Two years later, they founded Yantai Jereh, which grew into a major supplier of oilfield equipment and services for oil and gas drilling, natural gas liquefaction and environmental control.
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There are the big Russian energy firms, led by Gazprom, the state-controlled gas monopoly, which control most energy supplies to ex-Soviet countries, and much of the hard currency coming into Russia.
The British Gas boss claimed that 85% of the price it charges customers is outside its control, including wholesale gas prices and the cost of government policies to try to reduce emissions and help the poorest households.
Last November the Chinese government passed a work plan to control greenhouse-gas emissions further.
But there are a number of bills hanging around Congress, at various stages of maturity, to control greenhouse-gas emissions.
One of the most contentious issues for Bolivians is control over natural gas.
It would forbid U.S. commanders to use tear gas and other riot-control substances to protect our soldiers and minimize civilian casualties.
Police used tear gas in an effort to control the crowd, but this appears to have created panic and led to a stampede.
Morales gave companies from Brazil, Spain, France and the U.S., six months to negotiate new contracts, providing Bolivia with far greater control over natural gas production.
The facility, which is called a "gas governor" and consists of a large slab of concrete, a flue pipe and a control box, is intended to regulate gas supply in the area.
The populists shout louder, and claim that they are helping the poor through state control of oil and gas.
The Kremlin has used its control of oil and gas to assert pressure on former satellites like Georgia and Ukraine.
One of Romney's energy plans today has to do with giving states control of oil and gas on federal lands.
Chesapeake Energy has lost control of a natural gas well in the Marcellus shale that was in the process of being fracture stimulated.
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Meanwhile since discussions started on Nabucco Russia has not simply talked about, but actually built Nordstream, further increasing its control over the European gas market.
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Those attacks, in which a group of jihadists tied to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb seized control over a natural gas facility and took dozens of hostages, are indeed alarming.
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For example, two firms, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical and Hitachi Chemical, control about 90% of the market for a specialty resin used to bond parts of microchips that go in to smartphones and other devices.
Yesterday the state natural gas monopoly, Gazprom, signed a deal to take control over the country's largest foreign investment, the massive Sakhalin II Gas Complex in the Russian Far East.
The friction caused by the gas bubble pushing up the pipe and displacing the drilling mud used to control the pressure could have created a static charge that ignited the gas into a fireball.
Realistically, the U.S. government only has so much control over the price of gas.
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