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...Some of the examples in this book will be familiar to anyone who has looked at network theory — from the number of stable contacts it is possible to maintain (150, according to anthropologist Robin Dunbar...
.... — Robin Kwong, head of digital delivery, London 2....
...Robin Griffin of Wood Mackenzie was among the analysts arguing that a long-term ban on coal imports from Australia looked unlikely, given the problems it would cause for China....
...Many of the NOCs have “become more nimble in the last decade”, agrees Amy Myers Jaffe, executive director for energy and sustainability at UC Davis Graduate School of Management....
...Robin West, chairman of PFC Energy, the consultancy, said, “Forces have been unleashed, and the impact is going to be tectonic.”...
...Amy Myers Jaffe, an energy expert at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, said the Commission had said more about US regulators than the industry....
...“It will definitely affect the debate,” said Amy Myers Jaffe, energy specialist at Rice University....
...The acquisition could be a bigger win than many realize, Ms Jaffe said, if Exxon’s pilot project to remove carbon emissions from gas works....
...“Washington policy is very influential, but Washington cannot make policy in a vacuum,” says Robin West, chairman of PFC Energy, the consultancy. “This is a global issue.”...
...“If it were $27m, this thing would have gone away a long time ago,’’ says Robin West, chairman of PFC Energy, the consultancy....
...“The Petroleum Club is about Big Oil,” says Robin West, chairman of PFC Energy, a consultancy. “Houston isn’t about Big Oil any more; it’s about Big Energy.”...
...“Exxon management may not be enlightened but they’re very capable people,” said Robin West, chairman of PFC Energy, the consultancy....
...Reporting by Robin Harding in Tokyo, Song Jung-a in Seoul, Adela Lin in Taipei, Gerrit Wiesmann in Frankfurt and David Gelles in San Francisco...
...these companies face while awaiting carbon legislation is whether to invest in advanced plants and hope to get carbon credits or invest in older technology plants in hopes of being “grand-fathered in” said Robin...
...Nonetheless, Robin West, chairman of PFC Energy, the consultancy, said: “The companies must reinvest and if they can’t, they have a problem.”...
...Amy Myers Jaffe, energy expert at Rice University, had problems when she tried to compile a graphic comparing R&D spending across sectors....
...“You and I are paying for that,” Ms Jaffe says....
...“The storms and the resulting price rises have created a sense of anger with consumers and urgency with politicians,” said Robin West, chairman of PFC Energy, the consultancy....
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