Tag: environmental
Coming to a town near you? Pipeline protesters environmental destruction
Pipelines projects are response to increased consumption of domestically produced oil, natural gas across the country by Nicole Jacobs, EnergyInDepth The latest craze for the Keep It in the Ground (KIITG) movement is setting up camps along proposed pipelines routes in an effort to delay or halt the projects — the most infamous of these […]
International tribunal orders Ecuador to pay ConocoPhillips $380 million
Tribunal also issued a separate decision finding Ecuador entitled to $42 million ConocoPhillips’ wholly owned subsidiary, Burlington Resources Inc., received an arbitration award of $380 million from an international arbitration tribunal, constituted under the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), for Ecuador’s unlawful expropriation of Burlington’s significant investment in breach of the […]
Plastics reduce environmental costs by 4x compared to alternatives – study
Replacing plastics with alternatives would have environmental costs from $139 billion to $533 billion annually – Trucost A new study by Trucost finds the environmental cost of using plastics in consumer goods and packaging is nearly four times less than it would be if plastics were replaced with alternative materials, according to the American Chemistry Council. […]
Houston-based Vertex Energy reduces debt, slows net loss in 2015 financial report
“We believe that the industry in 2016 will continue to feel the pressures that made 2015 difficult.” – Vertex CEO Cowart Vertex Energy, Inc., an environmental services company that recycles industrial waste streams and off-specification commercial chemical products, announced today its financial results for the three and twelve months ended Dec. 31, 2015. “We continue […]
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