The companies face fines of up to $500,000 for each count -- over $60 million -- as well as losing the ability to obtain future approval for exports, a major part of their business.
The $5.5 billion deal with Cheniere, however, is subject to U.S. government approval for exports to the British economy.
Environmental advocates note that the industry has every incentive to pursue drilling in the state, since it anticipates a bright future in the long term, particularly as it pursues federal approvals for exporting liquefied natural gas overseas.
The inquiry also comes as the United States, Russia and Iran are competing to win Kazakh approval for oil export routes for the country's oil reserves.
4. Trans-Pacific Partnership: There is strong opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade proposal for a variety of reasons, one being it will allow companies to secure automatic approval for the export of fracked gas to foreign countries with free trade status.
Mortality from state-sanctioned and illegal predator control likely contributed to the overall population declines of cougars and lions; while leopards are also killed as pests, the leopard's CITES Appendix I status requires international approval for national export quotas, potentially providing safeguards against overharvest.
REC members in Nairobi and Navrongo expressed concerns about their inability to control what happens after granting approval for sample export: "…once the samples have left our jurisdiction we really have no control over it.
Though the Oil Ministry has granted approval for the exports, it has refused to recognize the roughly two dozen oil contracts that Kurdistan has signed with oil companies, meaning that Kurdistan may have to pay oil companies out of the revenue it receives back from the Iraqi government.
The report is likely to spur a competitive lobbying campaign for regulatory approval of export terminals.
Eventually, the song's redundancy comes to suggest a ritual spritzing of Chanel perfume, like a national seal of approval, on packages stamped for export from Paris.
