In addition, MLPs are limited by law to specific businesses, mostly fossil energy extraction and transport.
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"We understand the necessity of drilling for oil and gas, " said Marc McCord, an activist who has fought against energy extraction in Dallas.
It has adjusted UK gross value added, a measure of economic output, to exclude energy extraction and use, and also financial and insurance activities.
Count 'em up: Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union, as well as industries like forestry, mining, agriculture and energy extraction.
The speculative story is already spreading and consists of the energy extraction revolution, insourcing of manufacturing, technological prowess in Big Data, 3-D manufacturing, robotics, and a housing market recovery.
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Colorado is one of many that has dealt with the explosion in energy extraction that analysts say may enable the United States to overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's top energy producer in a decade.
We need to know how to function differently across many areas of the system: health, entitlements, pensions, transportation, energy, extraction, education, politics.
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Subsidies to agricultural production, energy and mineral extraction, in particular, need to be reviewed in terms of both trade distortions and sustainability.
Alkane Energy has six gas extraction sites in Nottinghamshire, two in Derbyshire and one in West Yorkshire.
While presently only 0.03 TW of energy was extracted from wind in 2008, and there is room for a considerable expansion of this technology with relatively insignificant effects on the climate, any future expansion on a global scale must take account that the potential for extraction of wind energy is finite according to the nature of the Earth system.
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Russia allowed foreign companies into its energy sector to help it with extraction technology in the post-Soviet era.
At the same time, extraction sectors like mining and energy production grew just 1.7% from 7.1% in 2010.
The shale gas boom has already resulted in the construction of dozens of new extraction and production facilities in energy and chemicals, creating tens of thousands of jobs, with potentially hundreds of thousands of more to come in energy and related industries.
Another restraint on producing large quantities of algae is that its cell walls are difficult to break, making extraction of the oil inside an energy intensive process.
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, has unleashed a boom in energy production in the United States by allowing the extraction of oil and gas from shale rock.
These sensors pick up natural seismic energy in the earth which allows precise mapping and extraction of the widely dispersed and meandering shale seams of rich hydrocarbons.
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That means measuring and reducing the embodied energy of a product throughout the supply chain, from materials extraction to processing to transportation to product use and disposal.
All sources of energy and electricity require water in their production processes: the extraction of raw materials, cooling in thermal processes, in cleaning processes, cultivation of crops for biofuels, and powering turbines to generate hydroelectricity.
In March, energy company Cuadrilla said it had delayed plans to use the shale gas extraction method in the county until 2014.
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The test of Mr Mesa's relationship with Congress will be the energy law, which will set new conditions for private firms in the extraction and sale of oil and gas.
While a single wind-turbine does not affect the global atmosphere, the installation of a large number of such devices will interfere with the atmospheric circulation and diminish the extraction efficiency on the large scale, since any extraction of momentum will act in competition with natural wind-power energy dissipation by turbulence in the boundary layer.
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The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that the United States has approximately 318 trillion cubic feet of extraction-ready natural gas reserves.
Still, the MIT report points out that shale-gas extraction uses less water than other industries, and indeed than other sources of energy.
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Environmentalists strongly oppose shale-gas extraction due to fears that fracking may contaminate water supplies, the oil-sands industry because it is energy-intensive and dirty, and deep-water drilling because of the risk of oil spills like last year's Gulf of Mexico disaster.
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