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How to use the word drilling in a Sentence?

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This would be the largest single oil drilling project proposed anywhere in the U.S., and it is drastically out of step with the Biden administration’s goals to slash climate pollution and transition to clean energy.

Jeremy Lieb

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Giving ConocoPhillips the green light on the Willow project is not just a disaster in its own right — it paves the way for even more oil and gas drilling in the area in the future, today’s decision sends the dangerous message that the fight against climate change, Alaska Natives’ and local residents’ lives, and wildlife are not good enough reasons to keep Big Oil from getting their way.

Raul Grijalva

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We are very concerned that the gas drilling will damage the area, we also believe that there is no need to drill [ for ] new gas at all and that we should invest much more in renewable energy.

Ineke van Gent

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Surveillance Technology Oversight Project's not enough just to see that they're saying they have an anonymous mode, surveillance Technology Oversight Project's really going to come down to seeing what data do they collect, what data do they keep, how is that data stored, how is that data potentially shared — really drilling into the technical details of each of these apps, and the changes they make.

Fox Cahn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don't know what to say. I'm not sure how I bullied him. He was the one hitting balls at me, he was the one that hit a spectator, he was the one that smacked it out of the stadium, i did nothing towards Stefanos Tsitsipas today that was disrespectful. I was not drilling Stefanos Tsitsipas with balls. To come in here and say I bullied him, that's just soft. We're not cut from the same cloth. I go up against guys who are true competitors.

Nick Kyrgios

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think everyone is disappointed to see that Alaska was included at all in the options, however it is incredibly heartening that there is no preferred alternative here, and the no drilling option for the first time we can see is on par with the other options, usually the no action alternative is done pro forma, but here they give it consideration.

Christy Goldfuss

Found on CNN
1 year ago

>( CNN) Interior Sec. Deb Haaland squared off with lawmakers on Thursday at a contentious Senate hearing that addressed high gas prices, oil and gas drilling and delays in the department's plan to hold more drilling lease sales. Deb Haaland told the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that Deb Haaland agency plans to release a proposal for its next five-year plan for offshore oil and gas leasing by the end of June -- a timeline that would likely lead to a gap between the current plan and a new one.Sen. Joe Manchin and Republicans on the committee expressed concern that the Department of Interior appeared to be delaying holding more oil and gas lease sales just as gasoline prices are surging in the US. Gas prices are high. Oil CEOs reveal why theyre not drilling more.

The President

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The shale supply response would further remain modest initially, due to drilling times, still cautious producers and a tight service sector.

Goldman Sachs

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm not for drilling on public lands.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If someone starts drilling oil wells today, the increased supply might be 6 months, 12 months, even years away.

Pavel Molchanov

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Biden administration is suddenly interested in more drilling, not less, people are more worried about high oil prices than anything else.

Robert McNally

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The whole world is looking at how Putin is able to negotiate this, and what he’s able to get away with, we have authoritarians around the world, and they take this, and they see it as an opportunity because, again, lack of resolve. What we need to do right now? We need to demonstrate resolve and the best thing we could do right now is re-open the Keystone XL Pipeline, start drilling again in America, make ourselves energy independent [and] lower the price of global energy — that would take a lot of the air out of the sails of Vladimir Putin.

Bill Hagerty

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The oil spill just shows how dirty and dangerous oil drilling is, and oil that gets into the water, it’s impossible to clean it up so it ends up washing up on our beaches and people come into contact with it and wildlife comes in contact with it, it has long-lasting effects on the breeding and reproduction of animals.

Miyoko Sakashita

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Democrats do a very good job of pulling on the emotional heartstrings of everyday Americans, they use extremism and scare tactics. It was President Trump in his last few months of his presidency, he banned drilling off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia and Florida because that’s what the states wanted and demanded.

Nancy Mace

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Matt Smith shale producers are continuing to show discipline in terms of their spending and drilling activity, something we haven't seen previously.

Matt Smith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's years of just drilling it in that everybody is beautiful, everybody deserves respect but you have a certain tone to your skin that for some reason is going to make you a threat - so here are the things that you're going to need to do to survive and this is real, it's my duty as his mom to prepare him.

Neakai Lewis

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We have the potential to identify more undiscovered oil and gas reserves( in the country) by using geophysical exploration techniques and discovery drilling and will definitely add to Iran's national wealth.

Reza Dehghan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This bill acknowledges that if we don't act, drilling rigs could soon appear off of our beaches.

Joe Cunningham

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If you remove regulation, you are inviting more drilling which then adds supply which means lower prices.

Christian Ledoux

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We had six drilling rigs in Iran that we never got back.

Jim Rebello

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Gutting the far too few offshore drilling safeguards that were established in the wake of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster is reckless and wrong.

Diane Hoskins

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Today's announcement is a major step backward in offshore drilling safety. Our government shouldn't be catering to the demands of the oil industry at the expense of our public and environmental safety, more drilling and less safety is a recipe for disaster.

Diane Hoskins

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Beto O'Rourke will need to answer why he did not lead on climate change in Congress and why he voted on the side of oil companies to open up offshore drilling.

Jay Inslee

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Almost 10 years after the BP Deepwater oil spill, offshore drilling is just as dirty and dangerous, despite pledges otherwise, there is still this unacceptable risk of devastating oil spills, and yet there is this call from the Trump administration to expand drilling to new areas and a call to abandon or weaken safety regulations. We should not be expanding drilling.

Diane Hoskins

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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