Sentence examples for extracting and burning from inspiring English sources

Extracting and burning all of that tar will cause a global temperature increase of about 0.4oC (0.4oC).

Environmental groups argue that extracting and burning the heavy crude drawn from Alberta's oil sands will increase greenhouse gas emissions.

Most of the rules focus on minimising any local environmental impacts, but what of the wider issue of the carbon emissions resulting from extracting and burning a fossil fuel such as gas?

We need to urgently move away from extracting and burning fossil fuels, and companies such as BP who continue to profit from the destruction of our environment have no place in our treasured cultural events or institutions".

Fold in the higher costs of extracting and burning fossil fuels on human health, the climate and the environment, many advocates argue, and renewable technologies like wind power are already cheaper.

As the world gathers in Morocco for the historic first meeting under the Paris agreement – called "COP22" but now also "CMA1" – it does so with the unprecedented involvement of corporate interests who have fought climate action around the world, funded climate change denial and whose fundamental interest is in extracting and burning as much fossil fuel as possible.

We have now discovered these buried fossils and are extracting them and burning them as fast as we can to fuel our factories, heat our homes and propel our cars.

The action it recommends is investing $22 trillion in new energy infrastructure, most of which will be spent on extracting, transporting and burning fossil fuels.

This is in stark contrast to fossil fuels, which require a large upfront investment for building power plants, followed by continued expenditure for extracting, transporting and burning fuel.

To its credit, the State Department acknowledges that extracting, refining and burning the oil from the tar-laden sands is a dirtier process than it had previously stated, yielding annual greenhouse gas emissions roughly 17 percent higher than the average crude oil used in the United States.

The new impact statement says that extracting, shipping, refining and burning oil from the tar sands produces more climate-altering greenhouse gases than most conventional oil, but less than many of the project's critics claim.