The Republican party and the petroleum companies for which it stands have long been demanding drilling on that coastal plain – the great expanse of tundra we were approaching on our journey, the plain that shone pinkish gold when we saw it from afar.
The oil and gas industry demands drilling fluids that would be able to minimize the wellbore instability faced during the drilling of reactive shales.
"Get more toys out!" "Have a cookie!" "Time to change a diaper!" She sounds like a demanding little drill sergeant.
I'm flying in a jet airliner consuming oil as I observe a disaster caused by the demand for oil, mine, yours, theirs — and yes, there was gross corporate irresponsibility, zero government regulation, rank corruption in the Minerals Management Service, but growing demand (Drill, baby) is what's pushing us toward the next disaster and the next and the next.
Mr. Salazar, in an interview this month, said the administration had not changed course, and was still demanding that drilling on public lands be conducted in a "smart from the start" way.
The rise of the insecure job-changing individual crossed with an increasingly global economy is at odds with the ethos and delivery of a system built in less demanding, better drilled times.
"The president's polices are at best ineffective and at worst are contributing to the higher gas prices," Barrasso said, before hitting the week's mantra of demanding more drilling.
Before Mr. Slaiby's arrival in Alaska, a Shell executive invited Mr. Itta to dinner at the Petroleum Club of Anchorage, and agreed to one of his key demands: drilling would be stopped for about 10 days during the bowhead whale migration through the Beaufort Sea.
Moreover, tight geometric tolerance requirements in designs demand that drilled hole precision must be increased in production.
In a post on Twitter addressed to Mr. Zinke, Xavier Becerra, California's attorney general, demanded that drilling also be banned off his state's shores.
Participants regularly prepare presentations and lead class discussions on a demanding schedule that drills them in research, writing, and teaching skills they will need for careers as academics.
