Quotes About Environment

You know my girls are so funny. You're out in the country and there are critters everywhere and they get a little like, 'Oh my God! Oh no, bugs!' and I had to say, 'Honey this is fine. This is their world and it's all part of being in the country.' I realized, 'Oh my God, my girls are really city girls.'

I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don't ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores.

Greenlanders' heart is the environment. You can't sell your heart for oil.

Oil is drowning our oceans and drowning our boreal forests.

The problem is not the oil, but what they do with the oil. The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources.

The exploration for oil and gas off our shores can play a role in making energy more affordable and accessible... However, effective safety measures must be in place, and exploration must be done in an environmentally sensitive manner that in no way interferes with our military.

BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up.

We don't have all the time in the world with oil. We have to use oil while it makes sense to do so.

I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico.

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.

We need to move away from oil, period.

There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a habitat.

China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.

A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.

The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.

It's fine if you're making 1,000 or 2,000 of an electric car, and I think there is value in that in a lot of ways, but it's not going to have a big dent in oil consumption in the country, or CO2 emissions.

Oil has allowed us to think about economics as though energy doesn't matter.

The same oil that gets burned as fuel is also the entire basis for the petrochemical industries, so our clothing, our plastics and our pharmaceuticals all come from oil and its derivatives.

Canadians need to start thinking of themselves as a petrostate, and they need to start thinking of the kinds of controls needed to protect the country from the excesses of oil.

Oil is largely our energy past, and Keystone does little to respond to the actual challenges and opportunities before us.

Pipelines are the safest way to move oil.