The government has argued that such a ban is needed to "protect communities, coasts, and wildlife" while oil and gas companies implement safety measures to reduce the risks of blowouts and oil spills associated with deepwater drilling.
We need to take a multifaceted approach to developing oil and gas resources here at home, to developing clean energy sources as well as taking other measures to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and broadly -- not just regarding the price of oil -- but helping the middle class through the measures this President has put forward to get on sounder economic footing.
The debate on 6 October 2010 was being held to investigate safety measures of oil drilling, following the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.
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The strong growth of the Venezuelan economy is almost solely based on the oil export revenues and fiscal measures, which have further strengthened this dependency.
He has appealed to the poor through his populist measures funded by constantly increasing oil prices.
One of the new measures reduces the share of oil revenues that go to the states and municipalities closest to the fields, aiming to spread the wealth more widely.
Flight AC991 from Toronto to Mexico City is expected to generate at least 40 per cent fewer emissions by using jet fuel derived from recycled cooking oil and through other fuel-saving measures, making it the most environmentally-friendly flight ever flown by Air Canada.
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As well as the eurozone, G8 leaders discussed measures to ease the price of oil.
Seismology for oil exploration differs from earthquake seismology, which measures naturally generated seismic waves.
We had a discussion about the oil spill in the Gulf and the important measures that are being taken both in capping the well, in making sure that we are dealing with the consequences on the shorelines and estuaries and bays across the Gulf, and also making sure that ordinary Americans who are being devastated economically are compensated properly.
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Environmental groups, foundations, and major oil and gas companies came together to support stringent measures to protect air and water from pollution in the Appalachian region, and they invited other groups to join in and help limit pollution from fracking.
An oil embargo imposed by the European Union in July and other measures that have included cutting Iran off from international financial-settlement mechanisms and maritime insurance are hurting hard.
This can only come about through measures that will help the development of a non-oil economy and so improve the living standards of Nigerians and sedate the desire to control oil revenues.
Within days, he said, he would add measures paving the way for telecoms and electricity privatisations and more oil-industry changes.
Just last month, with oil prices at their peak, the cabinet approved a package of new measures to promote foreign investment.
In the short, we are obviously looking at different measures we can take to help alleviate the impact of the oil -- rise in oil -- this rise in oil prices.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has suggested such measures as ending tax breaks for corporate jets and subsidies for the oil and gas industry.
Last year's finance bill in the republic included special measures designed to give tax authorities greater power and oversight of the oil trade with new requirements for the recording and reporting of transactions by traders.
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The twin subsidy-slashing measures may result in a major lobbying battle between King Corn and Big Oil.
And like integrated oil and gas companies, the efficiency developer is responsible for installing and monitoring the efficiency measures, ensuring that the building upgrades produce savings for years to come.
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If Shell Oil, Chevron Appalachia and other companies are found to be abiding by a list of stringent measures to protect the air and water from pollution, they will receive the blessing of the new Pittsburgh-based Center for Sustainable Shale Development, created by environmentalists and the energy industry.
These and other punitive measures blissfully ignore the lessons learned in the 1970s and 1980s, when Washington monetarily harassed the oil industry: Investment plummeted.
Elisabeth Gerber, of the University of California in San Diego, has found that opulent special-interest groups such as the oil and tobacco industries almost never succeed in pushing through self-serving initiatives, though they can sometimes block measures aimed against them.
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