British Gas was invited to explore offshore a few years ago, although production did not follow.
"It is too early to offshore a new industry before it is born, " says Andrew Grove, an Intel Corp. founder and one of the first to fund stem-cell study despite the feds' ban.
"It is too early to offshore a new industry before it is born, " says Andrew Grove, an Intel Corp. (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) founder and one of the first to fund stem-cell study despite the feds' ban.
Others such as a ban on deducting the cost of moving operations offshore and a minimum tax on foreign income are bad ideas, because they move in the wrong direction on question two.
Imagine being a 45 or 50 year old man or woman who has supported the family by showing up each day for a factory shift only to find yourself now facing life after the factory has shut down in the face of a move offshore or as a result of an economy that put the owner out of business.
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There are already a dozen offshore wind farms, and nine European countries pledged this week to build a giant offshore wind grid.
Hornbeck Offshore Services operates a fleet of 25 offshore supply vessels, largely in the Gulf of Mexico.
U.S. companies are keeping more of their profits offshore, a Journal analysis of 60 big U.S. firms found.
One of the most cautious and conservative of the Japanese automakers, Toyota has nonetheless been moving production offshore at a steadily growing pace.
Dow Corning could move offshore, a move it would prefer not to make, and probably recover the costs of the transition in short order.
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Petrobras alone is targeting up to 50 bn barrels of oil 190 miles offshore over a mile below the ocean surface and under three miles of rock.
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And the cost differential between floating them 20 miles offshore from a domestic shipyard vs. 7, 000 miles from China makes this a fairly Asia-proof business as well.
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With the garment trade moving offshore, a lot of old companies were for sale, and Hays could buy them cheaply and, at the same time, earn the gratitude of the union by saving jobs.
If you remember the conversation that was being had, a lot of people treated offshore drilling as a panacea to solve all of our problems as it related to energy.
By the time they do all that, and then test it over and over to make it as safe and reliable as they can, they have built a car effectively too amazing for American roads, an offshore powerboat in a bathtub, a falcon in a gilded cage.
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Above sea level, the offshore structure has been bolted together with a conventional offshore turbine of the sort used for near-shore wind farms that are bolted to the sea-bed.
But the Danes who built a big offshore wind farm in 2002 have a head start.
These series of events have left Italy scrambling for new and revived energy options, including a reversal of a ban on offshore drilling that was passed in a panicked response to the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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The 2012 OVDP offers a civil settlement structure in which taxpayers pay an offshore penalty in lieu of a number of other penalties that may be assessed in cases of offshore noncompliance.
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The North Carolina Offshore Wind Coalition, a lobbying outfit for the wind industry and local wind advocates, has put legislation into play in the North Carolina legislature that would likely result in the development of a whopping 2.5 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2027.
Every species on the island retreated to a small islet offshore, Boatswainbird Island, except for a few individuals that held on to the most inaccessible cliffs, and the phenomenally scrappy wide-awake terns that visit the southern plains to breed.
McCain said offshore drilling is a "vital part" of dealing with the energy challenge.
The volunteers first spy their ship anchored four miles offshore, after a trek through the forest.
That's because offshore drilling is a riskier proposition and oil companies require sustained high prices to justify it.
Yuan derivatives traded offshore also reflected a more bearish outlook for the yuan.
Some of the press may be wondering why we are announcing offshore drilling in a hangar at Andrews Air Force Base.
Just more than half of those polled said the ban on additional offshore drilling is a major cause of high fuel prices.
Hebron is located under 300 feet of water, 200 miles offshore, in a stretch of the northern Atlantic known as iceberg alley.
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In 2004 under President George W. Bush, Washington let corporations temporarily bring money from offshore profits at a flat rate of around 5.25%.
"The most corrupt, anything-goes destination is Grenada, " says David Marchant, editor of Offshore Alert, a Miami newsletter that tracks international banking and corruption.
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