Sentences with phrase «big oil corporations»

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Others in the task force include Koch Companies Public Sector, and Dezenhall Communications Management Group, a public relations company that specializes in media campaigns to defend corporations from progressive groups, and four of the the biggest oil and gas companies in the world — BP, Chevron, Exxon, and Shell.

Lucy Waletzky, a Sleepy Hollow psychiatrist and big - bucks backer of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, says the bankers who administered the trust left by her grandfather John D. Rockefeller Jr. — son of the Standard Oil founder — sold off the family's oil stocks in order to win fees from corporations like BoeiOil founder — sold off the family's oil stocks in order to win fees from corporations like Boeioil stocks in order to win fees from corporations like Boeing.

We don't want to be your victims after being bought by insurance companies, corporations, big business, big Wall Street and big oil.

In a motion filed this week, lawyers for Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation, one of the biggest operators in Pennsylvania, asked the Susquehanna County court to find longtime activist Vera Scroggins in contempt of an injunction barring her from areas near its well sites.

In the calendar year, Brown raised a whopping $ 9.87 million in monetary contributions, with the overwhelming majority of those funds coming from big corporations, labor unions, oil companies and high - worth individuals that routinely lobby state government.

A refinery operating in Richmond since 1901, first as Standard Oil and later as the Chevron Corporation, had long been the city's biggest single source of tax revenues — and air pollution.

Yet her warnings fell on deaf ears in the scientific community — much to the public's misfortune — due mostly to the ties between the vegetable oil industry and big - money corporations with their government subsidies.

How many CEO's of the oil companies and other big corporations are going to be remembered after they die?

Doesn't matter how big global estimated potential oil reserves are in total: when an oil company has diminishing access to state - controlled fossil fuels it may be experiencing its own peak - as a corporation.

It is better for «big oil» big - shots to deny Global Warming, as a debunk of old theories would be more sound for certain corporations and global affairs... hence more oil money to dispense amongst greasy palms.

«More than two dozen of the nation's biggest corporations, including the five major oil companies, are planning their future growth on the expectation that the government will force them to pay a price for carbon pollution as a way to control global warming.»

We call on you to listen to the European Parliament, to align yourself with those governments fighting for greater ambition on behalf of populations already feeling the impact, and not with President Trump and the same Big Oil, Gas and Coal corporations who are profiting from destroying the climate.

Big oil just like any large corporation wants to be seen as helping the planet.

Within the community words like «Heartland», «Big oil» and «Corporations» all have coded meaning in the lefts / AGW belief system lexicon.

Will EU Commissioner Cañete side with the European Parliament, which has called for a conflict of interest policy for the UN talks, or will he stick to the line of the likes of US President Trump and the same big oil, gas and coal corporations who are profiting from destroying the climate?

Brian, Big Money (Banks, Oil / Gas, Corporations, Bureaucracies) is on the AGW bandwagon / hysteria.

Since big oil, Koch, the banks, corporations, Hollywood, the media, academia, science and the boyscouts all apparently believe in an imminent climate crisis, Who is left to fight the good fight?

«It emerged at the international level, through the combination of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low - cost alternatives to supposedly «offset» their continued and excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the «protection» of forests in their countries, (4) the interests of corporations that could profit from market - tradable «offset» credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn «unexploited» forests into a new market for this type of capital, through the commercialization of «environmental services» such as carbon sequestration, among others.»

Had he investigated more general conspiracy theories / paranoia, he would have found that Big Oil, Corporations, Cronyism, Capitalism etc. would tend to level the conspiracy playing field.

The «big oil» argument often touted plays well with the crowd predisposed to equate corporations as a necessary evil and sounds like anti-capitalist, marxist screeching to right wingers.

Amanda Starbuck, the Climate Program Director at Rainforest Action Network, put it this way: «Many big corporations that sell commodities far removed from oil extraction are nonetheless enabling the nightmarish expansion of the tar sands by refusing to purge tar sands oil from their fuel supply chains.

WASHINGTON — Two of the world's leading oil producers have almost overnight joined some of the biggest players in wind power in the United States, accelerating a trend of large corporations investing in the rapidly growing alternative - energy field.

You are also apparently unaware that it is the same big, «bad» oil, gas, coal, and nuclear corporations that own wind — ie: GE, FPL, BP, AES, Iberdrola, Siemens, etc — many of whom have NOT paid any taxes in the U.S. in years, in large part thanks to their «investments» in wind.

Then, Dick Cheney and lobbyists for big oil, coal, and gas corporations met behind closed doors to set energy policy.

Shell was the first of the big oil companies to venture significantly into the new biofuels, getting its toes wet in 2002 by providing money to a Canadian company called Iogen Corporation to research making ethanol from plant waste.

Media accounts and policy discussions of oil sands and Keystone XL usually portray the adversaries as David vs. Goliath: small, underfunded environmental pressure groups taking on big, wealthy corporations.

Also in the «Canadian Big Deals» section, Paul, Weiss was noted for its role in representing target Harvest Energy Trust in the $ 4.1 billion takeover by Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC).

If you have clients (in - house or of your firm) at corporations that work overseas, Geoff Gussis recommends that you take a hint from what's happening at DaimlerChrysler and big oil and revisit the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

'' Whether in the pages of the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal or in Associated Press stories, big corporations such as the banks, oil companies, and drug firms are shown to be, in the words of one concise prosecutor, «lying, cheating and stealing.»