News tagged with oil industry
Lessons from oil industry may help address groundwater crisis
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Although declining streamflows and half-full reservoirs have gotten most of the attention in water conflicts around the United States, some of the worst battles of the next century may be over groundwater, ...
Predators key to sustainable farming
Aug 21, 2009 |
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Barn owls have emerged as the unlikely heroes in the fight against climate change, saving Malaysian farmers more than money, UQ PhD Student Chong Leong Puan has found.
Report: Bush admin's gas leases too close to parks
Jun 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Bush administration officials pushed aside the National Park Service and sought to lease public lands for drilling on the borders of Utah's most famous redrock parks during their final days in power, a special report ...
New Danish research shows how oil gets stuck underground
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 11, 2009 |
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It is a mystery to many people why the world is running out of oil when most of the world's oilfields have only been half emptied. However some of the oil that has been located is trapped as droplets of oil in small cavities ...
Solving the chalk mystery
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 24, 2009 |
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A piece of chalk in a laboratory at the University of Stavanger in Norway may be the key to unlock a great mystery. If the mystery is solved, it will generate billions in additional income for the oil industry. Associate ...
Malaysia urged to force big oil to produce biofuel
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Malaysia must force major oil firms to produce biofuel if the once-vaunted biodiesel industry is to have any future, industry experts told a conference Thursday.
