Sentence examples for moratorium area from inspiring English sources

But a 2007 analysis by the agency concluded that opening up drilling in the moratorium area "would not have a significant impact on domestic crude oil and natural gas production or prices before 2030".

No one knows for certain how much oil is in the moratorium area, but the federal Energy Information Administration estimates that roughly 75 billion barrels of oil in the United States are off-limits for development, and that 21percentt of this oil — or 16 billion barrels — is covered by the offshore moratorium.

building moratorium on the area and many people became worried about the old community, Clarence Chu, Fancy's brother and Mr. Ng's financial manager for the Locke investment, said the corporation's real plan for Locke is protective of the residents.

While the company has declared a temporary moratorium on logging areas mapped out by the Sami and green groups, Veijola says that these areas will not be protected permanently.

The Republicans' offshore drilling plan, proposed by Representative John Boehner of Ohio, the minority leader, is patterned after the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006, which lifted the oil and gas drilling moratoriums for an area in the Gulf the size of New Hampshire.

Other management options such as fisheries moratoria, time and area closures or catch limitations, and marine reserves also merit consideration to reduce long-term effects of fishing.

A city or town may impose a building moratorium or rezone an area to reduce density.

Since there is not much land left to develop in the area, the moratorium will allow city planners time to determine what kinds of businesses would be best in an area where rates of obesity and diseases related to it are disproportionately high.

"The other thing the administration did which I think was a terrible mistake was to impose this moratorium on drilling in the area and in other areas as well," Hume said, "which I think imposes a new and terrible burden on a region already suffering from the consequences of this oil spill".

The moratorium in the residential areas also applies to demolitions, home expansions, subdivision approvals and variances in lot size and setbacks.

The commission recommended a moratorium on trawling in areas that have not yet been fished, until an assessment at each of the possible effects on marine life.