Sentence examples for permit oil from inspiring English sources
Central to Mr. Murkowski's bill is a provision to permit oil drilling inside the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a wilderness area in Alaska's north slope.
The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to issue a rule in the next few weeks that would permit oil companies to increase the percentage of ethanol in automotive fuel to 15 percent, up from the current level of 10 percent, so they can meet E.P.A. quotas for renewable fuels.
To add insult to injury, last December the Corps declared that there was enough water on the Missouri River to permit oil and gas drilling to extract it for 'fracking.' " Which sounds well and good, except that spending billions on barge lanes does nothing to help fisheries (they're often ruined by it) or flooding (there are more floods than ever) or, especially, recreation.
Because the current government in Brazil does not permit oil exploration in the Amazonian native reservations, Petrobras has begun exploration in Ecuador, where there are no such restrictions.
The clearing of sea ice will also permit oil-drilling in places hitherto off-limits.
Congress is considering a budget bill that permits oil drilling throughout the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge.
Until 1999, the group permitted oil and gas production on a private refuge it owns on the Louisiana coast.
Permitted oil in water concentrations in effluent are being limited to the 15 to 30 ppm level in many jurisdictions.
Arze also says the new law violates indigenous peoples' rights, and permitting oil and gas operations in "protected areas" in the Amazon in particular could cause "enormous problems".
The Martinez case, as it is known, will determine whether state regulators must put public health and the environment first when permitting oil and gas operations.
(4) The locations of existing structures that your operations could affect, including but not limited to: Buildings, pipelines, existing or permitted oil or gas wells, freshwater wells, underground and overhead electrical lines, and other utility lines.
