Sentences with phrase «spending by oil companies»

I think my post regarding green energy spending by the oil companies got lodged in the spam filter.

Spending by oil companies fell sharply as oil plunged below $ 30 a barrel in 2016, dragging on U.S. economic growth.

Not exact matches

As is the case at many energy companies, growth is being driven by oil and liquids, while management limits spending on lower - return natural gas projects.

An agreement signed with Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp (JOGMEC) in 2011 saw the Japanese company earn a 30 % stake by spending $ 5.4 million on feasibility work.

By 1973, however, oil company scientists had turned up evidence of a large offshore fault 2.8 miles west of the plant, requiring PG&E to spend $ 2.2 billion on re-engineering to withstand a 7.5 - magnitude quake.

The film is as contemptuous of the rapacious and deceitful Texan oil executives who have put Peter's company out of business as it is of the rebel kidnappers, a band of Marxist revolutionaries so thoroughly corrupted by their drug and kidnapping operations that they now spend much of their time getting high.

Many energy companies have been reacting to sharply lower oil prices by cutting capital spending estimates.

Given the money that was spent by auto and oil companies in the 1970s on advertising about options, and the eventual awakening of the government and other authoritative bodies who began to look carefully at energy, I think we learned how to talk about energy and energy related science by the time the 2nd oil crisis hit, in 1979.

The top 200 oil, gas and mining companies spent $ 674 billion last year finding and developing fossil fuel resources, according to research by the Carbon Tracker Initiative and a climate - change research unit at the London School of Economics.

Oil and energy companies are the favorite target, but it's laughable when compared with money spent by government agencies promoting the IPCC version of global warming.

Second, the story quote «Opponents of CA's landmark global warming legislation AB32 — led by Texas oil giant Valero and other out - of - state oil interests — recently spent nearly $ 2 million dollars...» shows that oil companies themselves are getting involved with legislation that regulates electricity generation.

An investigative series of stories by InsideClimate News, and later the Los Angeles Times, disclosed that the oil company understood the science of global warming, predicted its catastrophic consequences, and then spent millions to promote misinformation.

«ExxonMobil, the world's largest and most powerful oil company, knew everything there was to know about climate change by the mid-1980s, and then spent the next few decades systematically funding climate denial and lying about the state of the science.»

Add to that the laughably absurd notion of the vast right wing conspiracy funded by eeevil oil companies, and it's no small wonder that otherwise disinterested observers (e.g. me) conclude that by and large the alarmist contingent spends their days wearing tin foil hats whilst congratulating themselves on their superior intelligence.

The money spent on exploring for and producing oil, gas, etc., and the resulting profits earned by the BIG EVIL fossil energy companies is not spent countering the money spent on funding CAGW biased research, and the related promotional propaganda.

«It's true that governments by and large have been politically paralyzed because the energy companies, the coal companies, the oil companies, the coal - burning utilities, they have spent enormous amounts of money and they have succeeded in many countries in paralyzing the political process,» the former vice president said.