Sentence examples for stopped drilling from inspiring English sources

Then the muddy workers stopped drilling and hacking, and they gathered around the priest.

The company, which stopped drilling there in response to local opposition, has not sought Lower Saxony's permission to resume.

The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia has formally halted the practice, and Exxon Mobil has stopped drilling in Lower Saxony state because of local opposition.

Cuadrilla, the company exploring for oil on the site to assess the potential for full-scale production, potentially using fracking, stopped drilling in anticipation of the heightened protest.

But in the same month, Cuadrilla stopped drilling after two tiny earthquakes were recorded in Lancashire; in October the government will consider the firm's inquiry into whether its activity caused the tremors.Generating electricity from natural gas is relatively clean.

Shell stopped drilling oil in Ogoniland, which includes Bodo, in 1993 after growing unrest in the area.

There was only one problem: under the contracts that Exco signed, it couldn't stop drilling.

It is a political effort by an environmentalist group aimed at getting oil companies to stop drilling in arctic waters.

Last year the firm had to stop drilling a couple of test wells after a spill-containment vessel was damaged.

"For us to stop drilling in the gulf is like ending our lives as far as the way we live.

Most of the people who are trying to stop drilling in the refuge have never been in our state.