It's true that mining oil sands is terribly inefficient and wasteful of water and natural gas when compared with pumping crude from conventional reservoirs.
Alan Garcia, as president from 2006-2011, opened up the Amazon to mining and oil exploration and drilling.
Congress included a few favored ones you might not think of as manufacturing--mining, oil extraction and engineering.
Bakrie-controlled companies cover the breadth of Indonesia's economy, including mining, oil and gas, palm oil, property, telecommunications and finance.
And most of this is from mining and oil companies, which have little choice but to go where the minerals are.
Altela provides on-site water desalination to mining and oil and gas companies.
Ecuador, a member of the Bolivarian Alliance, is one of the largest recipients of Chinese investment, particularly in the area of mining and oil.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Questionable Chinese mining practices in Latin America
Second, the promise of less regulation, which could help certain sectors like coal mining and oil exploration that have been under the wrath of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
FORBES: Wall Street: How Long Will The Obama Correction Last?
During the 1980s and 1990s, when commodity prices were low, mining and oil firms invested too little in new mines and wells, leaving them with little or no spare capacity.
The priority to find "African solutions" would bolster and diversify national economies currently too dependent on low-wages and unhealthy jobs in mining and oil industries designed primarily to benefit foreign investors.
BBC: What if Africa were to become the hub for global science?
Nevertheless, her campaign has echoed Mr Humala's pledges to levy a windfall tax on mining companies and give Andean Indian communities veto rights over mining and oil projects on their land.
It's pitching its electric transmission systems and its electricity-sparing motors to the dirtiest industries--utilities, mining, oil and gas, and heavy manufacturing--as a way of becoming a little bit cleaner and more efficient.
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 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 new security situation, the ongoing reduction in tariffs and the relative low cost of labor force will be translated into an increase in foreign investment in sectors such as gold and coal mining, oil exploration and manufacturing, to name a few.
That America might choose not to undertake the dirty business of mining (or oil drilling, etc.) within our borders does not diminish the importance of minerals.
FORBES: Tech's Mineral Infrastructure - Time to Emulate China's Rare Earth Policies
Illegal artisanal mining is already impacting several of the sites and the attribution of new oil and mining concessions could threaten their World Heritage status.
In the 1970s the brothers began focusing on oil and mining, through Earth Resources, and also ran Bonanza Steakhouses.
Companies in retail, oil and mining will be the big listers this year.
Workers themselves are another problem: with labour in short supply, oil and mining firms are poaching staff from one another.
As many as three dozen countries, in Africa and elsewhere, agreed to publish details of payments from oil and mining companies.
Oil and mining companies were hit with falling commodity prices as fears mount that the global economy will stall due to weak demand from developed economies.
They also point out that the FTSE 100 has been hampered, lately, by the fact that about a quarter of its market value is tied up in the oil and mining sector.
Brazilian investor and owner of a number of oil and mining companies, Eike Batista, will probably forever be known as the man who helped bring the 2016 Summer Olympics to Rio de Janeiro.
All this, it is feared, will dent the profits of big oil and mining firms, stoke inflation and imperil the West's access to resources that it needs just as much as China does.
When students understand the negative impacts of mountain top mining or deep water oil exploration, examples chronicled in the book, they are able to make connections between environmental issues in the world and how they live collectively.
FORBES: Daniel Goleman on the Importance of Ecological Intelligence
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.
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.
The province estimates it needs 90, 000 immigrants over the next decade to fill jobs in industries like oil, potash mining and farming.
WSJ: Little Pub on the Prairie: A Saskatchewan Tavern Tries to Pull Ahead on St. Patrick's Day
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.
ECONOMIST: Smart thinking is needed about smart gadgets�� influence
应用推荐