As it pumps out many more gadgets, the consumer-electronics industry is starting to attract the kind of scrutiny typically reserved for oil companies and mining firms.
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That goes for the national oil company, Petrobras, for Vale, a mining giant, and Embraer, an aircraft-maker.
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Long lead times persist for oil drilling rigs, mining equipment and some other specialized machinery, but generally companies face no supply limitations when considering expansion.
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The purchases included the Canada-based R Wales group of companies, which makes specialist rubber and wear resistant linings for the mining, minerals processing and oil sands industries.
Furthermore, we will learn how SAP is partnering with the German Development Organization (GIZ) to support Ghana in meeting the global standard for transparency in the oil and mining industries set by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.
The Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights was established in 2000 as a code of conduct for oil, gas, and mining companies, to maintain the safety of their staff and assets while avoiding human rights violations.
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Trusts that own oil sands can keep mining their tar deposits for decades.
So long as Washington stays open to sharing technology with the commercial satellite business, GeoEye can attack new markets for its imagery, particularly industries such as mining, oil and gas, insurance and transportation.
In August of last year, the SEC adopted a new rule on disclosures for companies in the oil, gas, and mining sectors.
When asked about where he sees opportunities as a global investor, aside from being bullish on telecom, Slim said that industries ripe for investment include housing, infrastructure, mining, food, oil, energy, medicine and ones that provide environmental solutions.
To pay for all the reinstated goodies to oil and gas, mining, real estate and countless other interests, tax rates went up.
Like junior companies in mining, the independents now conduct much of the industry's exploration for oil in relatively uncharted areas, their share price rocketing if they strike lucky.
But growth is getting more expensive, as other mining firms, and Western Australia's booming oil and gas industry, compete for labour and materials.
Private companies in the oil and gas, mining, construction and other industries also rely on generators for power.
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In one sense this is obvious: if mining and oil companies reveal the royalties they are paying poor countries then it is more difficult for the politicians in such countries to steal the money.
This distinction means that the countries have functional procedures for annual disclosure and links all the government income resulting from oil, gas, and mining activities.
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