Sentences with phrase «conflict oil countries»

«Blood Diamonds» awoke the world to the horror of warlords and their atrocities; so, «Ethical Oil» will wake the world up to the despotic regimes in Conflict Oil Countries.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON, March 21 - The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on 15 South Sudanese oil operators that it said were important sources of cash for the government, an action aimed at increasing pressure on President Salva Kiir to end the country's conflict and humanitarian crisis.

Regional wars and conflicts have cost Chinese enterprises massively in countries such as Libya, Ivory Coast and South Sudan, while investment in the oil industry is going to areas where extremist groups like Boko Haram are expanding.

The oil price decline, coupled with Russia's conflict with Ukraine which has led to Western sanctions on Russia, has hit the economy as well as investor confidence in the country.

The website suggests that «ethical oil» is a «fair trade» alternative to «conflict oil» exploited in some of our world's more politically oppressive and environmentally reckless countries.

The organization found that the government officials have gained massive personal fortunes from arms deals, oil and gambling to fuel one of the world's deadliest conflicts that has been happening since 2013 andhas left tens of thousands dead and almost half the country with food insecurity.

The statement signed by its spokesman, Mudoch Agbinibo, said, «We are going to support any collective / negotiation team emerging from the Chief (Dr.) Papa Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, Niger Delta elders and genuine stakeholders conference to engage with the Federal Government of Nigeria, representatives from the home countries of all multinational oil corporations and neutral international mediators that will be focused on achieving the short, medium and long term frameworks and objectives to de-escalating conflicts in the Niger Delta.

One could frame the debate in the advantages of using less fossil fuel, which range from lower costs to people (an all electric car has operating costs about 1/4 that of a gasoline vehicle), to balance of payments (less capital flowing out of the country, especially relevant to countries who import most of their oil), to terrorism (not funding it, and western influence leaving the ME, which is the basis of most ME terrorist organizations) to conflict in general (most of the major conflicts in the last 30 years have involved ME oil), to finite supply (when we run out, we'll be facing a global economic meltdown).

«The new rules approved by Colorado's Air Quality Control Commission, after taking input from varied and often conflicting interests, will ensure Colorado has the cleanest and safest oil and gas industry in the country and help preserve jobs,» Hickenlooper said.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

The competition from these countries, as well as conflicts in other oil producing countries, crude oil prices have increased.

Either way, Americans finally had an opportunity to make a huge shift away from their reliance on illiberal conflict oil, and towards a greater and more secure supply of oil produced in a peaceful country, upholding only the highest standards for minority rights, women's rights, workers» rights, and the environment.

Worldwide, high crude oil prices, increasing extreme weather events, population growth and economic development of poorer countries, crop - based biofuels, political conflict and unrest in the Middle East, and slowing crop yield growth are all factors contributing to rising food prices.

The United States» heavy reliance on imported petroleum both contributes to climate change and makes the country «strikingly vulnerable to potential oil supply shocks rising from domestic disturbances or broader regional conflicts.»

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

OTTAWA • Niqab - clad OPEC supporters turned up at the United States embassy on Thursday to thank American president Barack Obama for blocking the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada, ensuring ongoing support for conflict oil from OPEC countries.

Oil sands advocates have seen an opening, however, in Americans» perpetual nervousness over its reliance on oil imports from unfriendly and autocratic regimes, as well as a newly restive Middle East, and have increasingly argued for Canadian petroleum as an alternative to «conflict oil» tanked in from dodgier countriOil sands advocates have seen an opening, however, in Americans» perpetual nervousness over its reliance on oil imports from unfriendly and autocratic regimes, as well as a newly restive Middle East, and have increasingly argued for Canadian petroleum as an alternative to «conflict oil» tanked in from dodgier countrioil imports from unfriendly and autocratic regimes, as well as a newly restive Middle East, and have increasingly argued for Canadian petroleum as an alternative to «conflict oil» tanked in from dodgier countrioil» tanked in from dodgier countries.