Besides, huge Chinese, South Korean and Japanese markets sit nearby, eager to secure supplies of energy.
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To secure supplies of steel, Johannpeter in 1948 bought the majority stake in a local steel mill.
Wastewater could be recycled as part of plans by Southern Water to secure supplies over the next 25 years.
Manufacturers around the world are now racing to secure supplies of the scarcest components and materials, pushing up their prices.
He also indicated that Apple would likely continue to use its balance sheet to do partnerships to secure supplies of key components.
Russians pushing east moved ever farther from secure supplies of grain.
Energy minister John Hayes denied the government was being complacent, saying he was confident that its approach, combined with the responsiveness of the market, would provide secure supplies.
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But US prison authorities have been struggling to secure sufficient supplies and turned to Europe for further consignments.
It was agreed that they would, instead, accelerate development of secure OECD supplies, notably Norway's Troll gas field.
In other words, Europe is running out of oil and scrambling to secure new supplies to fill the losses.
Japanese firms have been looking to secure LNG supplies to make up for the shortfall in nuclear energy after last year's quake and tsunami.
And it's sufficiently likely that Ofgem says the government needs to give serious consideration to the case for further measures to secure gas supplies.
In Asia in early 2008 a spike in the price of rice led to widespread unrest and desperate attempts by governments to secure more supplies.
Boosting energy-efficiency and the use of renewables not only helps secure energy supplies and cuts local pollution, but also helps keep carbon emissions in check too.
Beijing has been trying to secure new supplies of energy and according to the ministry's estimates the country has around 25 trillion cubic metres of shale gas reserves.
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The scramble to secure oil supplies now and into the future has contributed to the sharp increase in the price of oil on both the spot market and for future delivery.
Prosecutors allege that Elf executives stole hundreds of millions of dollars from slush funds the company used to bribe Third World leaders, both to secure oil supplies and spread French influence.
Duke operates in the resource-poor Carolinas and built some of the world's biggest coal plants in the 1960s and 1970s, when people were more concerned about cheap, secure energy supplies than co2 levels.
Chinese oil and coal companies have been looking overseas in their quest to secure energy supplies, pitching the Chinese flag in places like Sudan, which Western companies had largely abandoned under international pressure.
Shale gas riches have positioned North Americans as beneficiaries in the global race to secure natural gas supplies.
The cabinet's main priority is to secure affordable food supplies throughout the archipelago, severely disrupted by riots and shortages of imports.
Brazil holds recently discovered oil reserves that could be far larger than ours, and as we seek to increase secure-energy supplies, we look forward to developing a strategic energy partnership.
However the American consumer subsidizes it more than once because tax dollars must also go to fighting wars to secure the oil supplies not only for America but also for other oil consuming nations and their growing economies.
However, the detractors of solar do not factor in all of the subsidies given to non-renewable energy (hundreds of billions of dollars a year in the USA), and they do not factor in the cost of our military to secure foreign oil supplies or our ongoing medical costs due to air pollution.
State-owned China National Petroleum Corporation, eager for secure long-term supplies, has bought 40% of a large project in Sudan.
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Britain, Germany and France have all offered troops to help secure Afghanistan and guarantee aid supplies after the collapse of the Taliban.
Saudi oil minister Ali Naimi said countries around the world needed to work together to ensure energy supplies remained "secure and reasonably priced".
The Partnership will offer a framework for consolidating and expanding energy and environmental cooperation across existing regional forums to advance efforts to ensure affordable, secure, and cleaner energy supplies for the region.
Today Prime Minister Abe departs on a week long trip to Russia and the Middle East the main purpose and expected result of which is to help secure for Japanese interests ample future supplies of relatively cheap oil and gas.
But there is a concession to sceptics about the government's ambitious targets, and the need to secure reliable baseload capacity to ensure power supplies when the wind drops and turbines stop working.
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