Sentences with phrase «big oil interests»

If they are astroturfers for Big Oil interests, then they would become more prominent after nuclear liberalization, as AGW campaigners would be an existential threat to Big Oil's stake in the electricity generation field once the main competitor was zero - carbon nuclear rather than high - carbon coal.

Demonstrating the power of the masses to challenge Big Oil interests, Not Without Us is an all too timely document of the grassroots struggle for significant climate action.

Forget that America went to war with Iraq under false pretenses concerning non-existent «weapons of mass destruction,» or that the Big Oil interests that pushed for Bush Junior's invasion of Iraq led Americans to believe that the Iraq War was directly linked to avenging the perpetrators of 9/11.

Not exact matches

The biggest winners are the oil companies and large corporate and monied interests that stand to benefit from a strong Conservative majority.

The biggest loser will be our environment, as those oil companies and corporate interests will be given virtually free reign.

President Obama called it «a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans.»

When Mr. Icahn took on the advisory position this year, critics complained that it was a conflict of interest because he owns a big stake in an oil - refinery business called CVR Energy.

To me, the best thing that could happen for MLPs is two quarters of nothing happening — no distribution cuts, no companies having this issue or that issue, no oil price plunge and no big interest rate movements.

(Not the one with Down's Syndrome, the one who volunteered to go fight a pointless and shameful war on behalf of big oil companies and other major corporate interests.)

And that includes the people that peddle religion because they are for sure a special interest group just like banks, wall street, big oil etc..

Unfortunately self - interest - often in the form of oil seems to have too big an influence.

Moron Rump calls this gift «putting America first» while he slows our economy by boosting the interests of Russia, Saudi Arabia and big oil companies!

LCV Action Fund President Gene Karpinski praised Bishop's support of clean energy legislation, saying he «stands with the people of New York who need clean energy jobs now, and not with the Big Oil companies and special interests who are blocking progress in Washington.»

«Trump admin has put American people's health & our planet's future on the back burner, lining the pockets of big oil & special interests,» Schumer wrote on Twitter.

Oil Change International, another environmental organization, said that as the bank shifts away from coal, it is taking a larger and troubling interest in natural gas and big hydropower projects.

Natural gas and domestic oil production got a shout - out in the address as part of the President's vision of supporting domestic energy resources, something that several Republican lawmakers were pleased, and perhaps surprised, to hear.What I thought was more interesting was the President specifically calling out how big of a consumer of energy the U.S.

Still, recent actions by the Jokowi government have cast doubts that the leader is willing to take on big palm oil interests.

Coz you're one of the biggest essential oil websites and resources on the Internet and you — you're really unbiased, too, which is interesting.

The interesting thing that I also tweeted this week, since we're geeking out on fish is that even though fish oil is gonna give you a bunch of benefits like this, I'm not the biggest fan of relying on fish oil per se for a lot of these omega 3s and DHA and testosterone precursor because it can have issues.

With media interest and public support behind him, Pryce is poised to make a run for Senate on an eco-friendly platform that seeks to abolish oil drilling altogether — something that doesn't sit too well with his ambitious wife Deborah (Connie Nielsen), who's lined up potential big business financial support for his campaign in the form of oil exec Mark Lavin (Bryan Batt).

Big Oil continues to drop and I'm starting to become somewhat interested in adding to one of the supermajors.

4 How will the abundance of cheap Natural Gas be used between the competing interests of Big Oil (Export) and Big Chemical (Use internally to make cheap chemicals)?

No matter how adamant we are about the validity and certainty of the data's message, it is still not going to change the minds of big oil and big vested interest.

We're seeing a confluence of interests that will — or at least should have — Big Oil and Big Coal worried.

Bravo Dr. Hansen for holding big oil and special interest accountable, even going so far as to recommending prosecution.

2) The few skeptic climate scientists out there are paid to lie about that by «big coal & oil» interests.»

For evidence that US Congress members are more responsive to the interests of Big Oil than to the citizens who elect them, one need look no further than Congress's recent decision to lift the 40 - year ban on oil exports, despite the fact that 69 percent of Americans across both parties support the bOil than to the citizens who elect them, one need look no further than Congress's recent decision to lift the 40 - year ban on oil exports, despite the fact that 69 percent of Americans across both parties support the boil exports, despite the fact that 69 percent of Americans across both parties support the ban.

Should be an interesting show over the next month as the bought and paid politicians perform for the Big Oil puppeteers.

I get annoyed at the suggestion that public skepticism of AGW exists largely because of the manufactured doubt by big oil and others with vested interests.

Lose those high aspirations — let «our» side be one that tortures (or let the real reason for a war be the interests of Big Oil)-- and the confidence that we are the «good guys» deflates.

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?

The Greenpeace report, «Dr. Willie Soon: a Career Fueled by Big Oil and Coal,» reveals that $ 1.033 million of Dr. Soon's funding since 2001 has come from oil and coal interesOil and Coal,» reveals that $ 1.033 million of Dr. Soon's funding since 2001 has come from oil and coal interesoil and coal interests.

In the big picture, as we plan towards a sustainable economy, protecting the Great Bear Rainforest from massive oil spills would be in the fundamental national interest.

«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.»

Governor Schwarzenegger now must decide whether to truly lead this environmental fight or shrink to the will of big oil and automaker special interests.»

It would probably be unfair to suggest a conflict of interest but in a world echoing to shrill cries of «Big Oil!»

Every trick, lie and deceitful attempt by vested interests to delay action on global warming is exposed, along with the tactics of their well - oiled propaganda machine, including the same unscrupulous scientists, handed down from Big Tobacco to Big Carbon.

Some of the authors in AR4 were paid for their effort by Big Oil, others were paid by Big Environment, most were on public money working for an interested department, but I've never met anyone who worked for the IPCC on a grant of the National Science Foundation or suchlike.

Or do we let the forces of obstruction — led by Big Oil and special - interest polluters — win, ensuring America's continued addiction to the dirty, unsafe energy of the 19th century?

Her fearlessness and tenacity in the face of widespread government corruption and industry interests have won critical concessions to protect local villagers and the environment from being steamrolled by the development of the world's biggest oil export pipeline.

Myriam Douo, lobby transparency campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe continued: «With ENTSOG there is a clear conflict of interest: members include subsidiaries of big oil and gas companies like Engie, OMV, Mol Group, E-On and Gazprom and climate - change deniers Centrica.

They are also the most cynical since I know many know the science is garbage but love the emotionally based hate against private interests in the hopes attacking «big oil» or creating wealth redistribution schemes.

It is an interesting life when I am accused of being in cahoots with both «big oil» and «big climate» at the same time.

Of course, it is easy to paint skeptics as right wing conservative nutjobs who are all in the pay of big oil (despite big oil benefiting from climate change legislation) and who have no interest in science.

Did he really beleive that the interests of Big Oil were at odds with yours and mine?

I'm sure you will ferret out any foreign money involved in lobbying our government on behalf of big oil, the pharmaceutical companies, the insurance interests and the grain industry.

Picture: soy and corn plantations and algae in Chubut, Argentina.Leaving the most radical speeches behind, we thought worth mentioning some excerpts from a document by Engineer Enrique Mario Martinez, president of the Argentine National Institute for Industrial Technology (a well known investigation institution), who highlights issues like the low yield of corn - based biodiesel, the different impacts in the environment between biodiesel and bioethanol, and the big oil companies interests in biodiesel mixed with petrol.

But because the media seems to feel that nobody's interested the aftermath of the 2010 BP spill, the biggest offshore oil disaster in US history, you probably didn't hear about it.

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You guys were not richly funded by big oil (or coal) interests?