Sentences with phrase «oil paying the campaign»

Not exact matches

The north is well aware that even in the crude terms of oil and supplies, it almost certainly lacks the funds to pay for any kind of sustained military campaign, despite having one of the world's largest standing armies.

The ATO's attack on Exxon comes as unions continue a public campaign seeking to highlight the perceived lack of tax paid by the oil company.

«This poll simply confirms what we already know — that David Weprin is winning this election because New Yorkers know they can trust him to protect Medicare and Social Security and reform the tax code to make millionaires and Big Oil pay their fair share,» said Weprin campaign spokesperson Elizabeth Kerr.

So the government has made permanent the former temporary ban on profiteering «vulture funds», persecuting the most indebted countries, and backed the «Publish What You Pay» campaign to bring transparency to multinational oil and mining companies» payments to developing world governments.

Equally unsurprisingly, Team Weprin had this to say: «This poll simply confirms what we already know — that David Weprin is winning this election because New Yorkers know they can trust him to protect Medicare and Social Security and reform the tax code to make millionaires and Big Oil pay their fair share,» said Weprin campaign spokesperson Elizabeth Kerr.

Perhaps the filmmakers were simply highly - paid double agents for big oil and big coal trying to undercut the global effort of the similarly named 10-10-10 campaign kicking off on Oct. 10 (the 10:10 group is one of thousands of participants in the international climate «work party»).

Another is Greenpeace's clever use of YouTube campaigns focused on orangutans and popular chocolate bars to press companies like Nestle to pay attention to the source of palm oil.

Well, fooling people is now a highly paid, highly skilled profession, so maybe you can now at least fool the majority of the electorate for a long enough time to accomplish the goal, whether you are engaged in an illegal war for control of some oil resources, or a global warming denial disinformation campaign, for control of the right to keep burning as much oil as you feel like.

A recent ad put out by her campaign argues that «Hillary Clinton knows it's time to act, take some of the windfall profits of big oil to pay to suspend the gas tax this summer, investigate the oil giants for price gouging and collusion.»