Five power giants were created and encouraged to exploit energy resources at a time when China was encountering sporadic regional blackouts.
In December Denmark formally lodged with the UN its claim to an 895,000-sq-km (345,000-sq-mi) area in the Arctic embracing the North Pole, along with the right to exploit energy resources there.
Pyrolysis and combustion may be efficient methods of exploiting energy from these biomass resources.
Most of the native groups that once opposed drilling and a planned $3 billion pipeline project have abandoned their protests and now favor exploiting their energy resources.
Driven by the rapid progress in exploiting unconventional energy resources such as shale gas, there is growing interest in hydraulic fracture of brittle yet heterogeneous shales.
Exploiting our energy resources would involve massive new investment in equipment and employment, reduce the debilitating cost of energy for the American people, stop the hemorrhaging of capital to foreign suppliers, and eliminate any further dependence on the volatile Middle East.
However, it was also decided that '[s]uch measures shall not affect a Member State's right to determine the conditions for exploiting its energy resources, its choice between different energy sources and the general structure of its energy supply' (Council of the European Union, 2007 Art. 194).
Mr. Miller's employer, the Bureau of Land Management, which is part of the Interior Department, is charged with balancing the need to exploit energy and mineral resources against the need to preserve cultural and environmental bounties.
In particular, restrictions on its oil and gas exports, its ability to import technology to exploit its energy resources, and being cut off from SWIFT, the financial-messaging system used to transfer money between the world's banks, have taken an increasing toll.
Currently, the growing attention and increasing significance to environmental issues have stimulated countries to exploit renewable energy resources and to encourage their use [3, 4, 5, 6].
