Gandhi is an avid scholar of the arts, and holds a degree in oil painting conservation.
In 2003 and 2004, she chaired the state Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which regulates Alaska's oil and gas resources.
As a former member of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, she has notable credentials in energy issues, something very much on constituents' minds.
Environmental groups had requested the ingredient lists from the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, arguing that the public needs to know what chemicals companies are putting underground.
"People are saying 'we thought we bought our house in suburbia, or at least exurbia, and now someone is drilling an oil well here, " said Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission director Matt Lepore.
Conservation can help, but with oil consumption expected to grow by 60% over the next 25 years, conservation alone will not be a sufficient solution.
As a tradeoff to environmentalists, Bush said upfront fees paid by oil companies to access the ANWR reserves would be spent on research into alternative energy sources, and royalties generated by ANWR oil sales would be spent on conservation efforts.
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At some point in the future, new energy technologies and conservation will lessen our dependence on oil.
At the heart of the cases is the interpretation of a state law passed in 1981 that says regulation of the oil and gas industry rests solely with the state Department of Environmental Conservation, which "supersedes" local laws and ordinances.
Although, with plentiful oil and natural gas in the US, the pressure on energy conservation has eased a bit it is clear that there is a finite amount of accessible energy available and conservation of energy is important to preserve these assets for future generations.
The RSPB has also voiced concerns about any potential oil extraction around Rathlin Island, off County Antrim, a Special Area of Conservation and a Special Protection Area (SPA), which it argues is too important for wildlife to allow that to happen.
Bush has tried to emphasize conservation efforts in an attempt to blunt criticism that his plan would benefit oil companies that made large financial contributions to the Republican Party.
Despite this, according to a critique of the study written by Rick Steiner, a conservation specialist at the University of Alaska, it includes no contingency plan for oil spills.
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Sport-utility vehicles are losing popularity, policies to boost conservation and renewable energy have become bolder, and producers have found a lot more oil below America's soil and coastal seabed.
As oil production slows, prices will rise up and down the futures curve, stimulating new technology and conservation.
The Saudis have many decades-worth of oil left in the ground, and so have an incentive to keep the stuff cheap enough to ward off conservation or substitution.
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The backstory: since the 1970s the Land and Water Conservation Fund (which, only semi-ironically, gets its money from federal royalties from offshore oil and gas drilling) has given money to local governments for parks.
Tejon won the crucial backing of environmentalists in May 2008, when it agreed to put its 240, 000 undevelopable acres into a conservation land trust. (Tejon has retained the right to ranch, farm and prospect for oil on these lands and even sell large chunks, most likely to the environmentalists.) Full approval would enable Tejon to put up 26, 000 homes on the 30, 000 acres not included in the deal.
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