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A truly charming film, with wonderful actors, which captures the very essence of rural Ireland and its windswept islands offshore.
There is a boat offshore...but how will they get to it with the shrews running around?
King" who plays the production platform offshore installation manager as Moore also stars with the same actor in many of his James Bond movies.
But when bad things happen and there is pressure on financial markets, with fear of insolvency in the air, it matters a great deal if you have a claim on an insured bank in the United States or on an essentially unregulated offshore subsidiary.
Members of the Sharif family, it was revealed, had illegally transferred huge amounts of money into numerous offshore companies, which had then invested in expensive properties in London and the Middle East.
Likewise, the oil industry has often been able to drill on federal land and offshore without paying the full market rate for the leases.
And if China becomes too aggressive toward its neighbors – for example, by demanding rights to offshore oil or territory in disputed waters – it will generate a serious diplomatic backlash.
Meanwhile, if the UK becomes a low-cost offshore financial center that sheds jobs, it could pose a danger to its neighbors.
The results buck “the conventional wisdom that renewable energy is too unreliable and expensive,” says Kempton.“For example,” according to Budischak, “using hydrogen for storage, we can run an electric system that today would meet a need of 72 gigawatts, 99.9 % of the time, using 17 GW of solar, 68 GW of offshore wind, and 115 GW of inland wind.”
There is a fossil carbon continuum ranging from easy, conventional oil, to deep and ultra-deep offshore oil, to extra-heavy crude oil.
Brazil can improve on this record by using profits from the offshore oil fields that it is currently developing.
Moreover, because California considers itself the vanguard of green energy, state agencies have responded to Trump’s proposal to open up offshore oil drilling by threatening to ban the transportation of oil through the state, even in existing pipelines.
First, credit that can be, and is, created offshore and through off-balance-sheet SIVs is not captured by national balance-of-payments statistics.
The rest of the UK (called the “RUK” in the current debate), including England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, would quickly and efficiently negotiate the terms of independence with Scotland, agreeing how to share the UK’s public debt and public assets, including offshore oil and gas.
India has invested $150 million in a gas exploration deal off the Arakan coast of Myanmar, and India’s state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and Gas Authority of India Ltd. have taken a 30% stake in two offshore gas fields in direct competition with PetroChina, which has also been given a stake.
Not surprisingly, employment has boomed in India’s IT-enabled offshore services sector, soaring from 106,000 in March 2002 to 171,500 a year later.
The British government, preoccupied with finding ways to stimulate growth as the next election approaches, will no doubt think hard before making any changes that might drive business offshore.
And, with our banking reforms, we are strengthening our reputation as the home of global finance – from insurance to asset management, and from the new offshore renminbi markets to issuance of the first sovereign sukuk, or Islamic bond, in a non-Islamic country.
But China has been taking concerted steps to expand the use of the renminbi, including signing swap agreements with more than two dozen countries, actively encouraging offshore markets for renminbi deposits and bonds, and moving cautiously to open domestic capital markets.
As for foreign-owned automakers operating in the US, they will almost certainly offshore any facilities that are producing inputs destined for foreign markets.
The renminbi is illiquid and unconvertible outside designated offshore markets.
Already, China has been experimenting with the development of offshore renminbi markets in key financial centers, as a way to overcome its currency’s limited liquidity.
But a 30% cost rebate is not enough to stimulate development of offshore wind capacity.
The US has no offshore wind farms, and no prospect of having any for at least five years.
To consider just one obstacle, no vessels suitable for installing offshore foundations comply with the Jones Act, which requires that work on such projects use US-flag ships, constructed in the US, and owned and wholly operated by US citizens.
The reasons for offshore wind’s failure to fulfill its promise in the United Kingdom are equally straightforward and have nothing to do with a lack of money.
This is a pity, because the UK is missing out on the opportunity to build offshore generating capacity along its long, windy coastline.
The UK needs offshore wind to meet its renewable targets, and in a few years it will need electricity from any source it can find just to keep the lights turned on.
After devoting more than a year to examining 2.5 million leaked files, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), in partnership with several global news outlets, revealed the names behind more than 120,000 anonymous offshore companies and trusts.
The ICIJ investigation – which details cash transfers, incorporation dates, and links between companies and well-known individuals – demonstrates the massive scale of the offshore industry.
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