Sentence examples for offshore land from inspiring English sources
Elsewhere the federal and state governments split control of offshore land, and this complicates the leasing process.Texan officials are baffled by other states' worries about wind power.
However, it opposes steps that would actually increase production of these fuels, such as leasing more offshore land for exploration or loosening environmental regulations that make it hard for companies to overhaul their existing refineries.
A stronger offshore land breeze during the active MJO compared to before the onset of the active MJO was observed in the early morning (not shown) during the pre-YMC field campaign, which probably caused wind divergences in the lower troposphere, suppressing convection over the island.
The large temperature differences between the land and sea with lower temperatures occurring on the island during the night to early morning in an active phase of the MJO would induce strong offshore land breezes on the coast, because the strength of the land-sea breezes is directly proportional to the temperature difference between the land and the sea.
This process usually reverses at night where the water temperature is higher relative to the landmass, leading to an offshore land breeze.
From a window in a restaurant on an upper floor of my hotel, seven hundred feet above the Persian Gulf, I looked down on two vast offshore land-creation developments: Palm Jumeirah and the World.
The Obama administration is backpedaling on the president's commitment to opening more offshore lands to drilling.
Or that any serious quantity of oil will result, even two decades from now, from the offshore lands the government is supposedly freeing up?
Section 12(a) of OCSLA is a short yet potent provision that grants a president the authority to withdraw unleased offshore lands from leasing disposition, effectively banning any form of energy exploration or production.
Bush wants Congress to open up offshore lands and protected Alaskan areas for oil and gas extraction.
for so many years". Prior to Watt's administration, the Interior Department had offered only selected tracts of promising offshore lands for lease instead of opening up large areas of ocean floor for bidding.
