Sentences with phrase «us oil interests»

The Chinese with their nose know we talked about before when they first announced it about three months ago that they were doing the Yuan - gold - oil interest in arbitrage that helped play it.

They say we support tyrannical governments and rulers who in turn protect our oil interests, and thus deny to their people the freedom and democracy which we treasure for ourselves..

These are the same damaged trans fats that have been touted as «healthy» and «heart - friendly» for the last 60 years by the vegetable and seed oil interests!

But you might well be shining your deer in an opening in a forest that has been ravaged by the oil interests — public land doled away for peanuts by conservationists in a state with boggling population and recreation problems.

US oil interests are present, too, but they hold a much smaller share of the Libyan market than do the Europeans.

The powerful lobbying organisation, which receives funding from pharmaceutical, weapons and oil interests among others, is heavily funded by the Koch Charitable Foundation whose founder, Charles G Koch, is one of the most generous donors to the Tea Party movement in the US.

Stock says the debate between agriculture and oil interests over ethanol has been needlessly divisive, and that the EPA under Pruitt should instead turn its focus to «second - generation» biofuels that do not provoke such bitter fights.

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

These are the same damaged trans fats that have been touted as «healthy» and «heart - friendly» for the last 60 years by the vegetable and seed oil interests!

Patricia Neal comes to Washington on behalf of the preservation of the California Condor; she finds herself the object of ridicule for almost everyone, including leading man Victor Mature, a lobbyist for the oil interests who threatens a large bird sanctuary.

Bruce Greenwood is effortlessly authoritative as U.S. ambassador Dwight Morrow, a charming and effective negotiator whose main concern in Mexico is U.S. oil interests, though he gradually becomes aware of the enormity of what is occurring.

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.

Medium of Exchange follows Soleimani's investigation of the complex relationships between leaders of OPEC countries and the West, finding both complicit in warfare that has come as a result of oil interest.

In 1991, for example, Robert Arneson responded to the first Gulf War with a series of images caricaturizing then - President Bush, focusing on his oil interests as the true motivation for the war in Kuwait.

Trillions of dollars and thousands of lives have been wasted defending America's oil interests in the Middle East.

The answer is clearly, that they never were operating in good faith, that the war was pursued for the benefit of oil interests, and that climate deniers are supported for the same reason.

I agree with you, J.S. (comment # 243) that our leaders will continue to try to protect oil interests in the mid east.We've been playing up to them since President Rooosevelt courted favor with the Sheiks, Mullahs, Princes and Imams in the mid 1940s.

Well, he is the Bush Administration's pick for the post (may be under the advice of some with oil interests), to replace Robert Watson, whom the administration did not like.

For the past few days, key oil interests and players with, evidently, insider knowledge — such as the American Petroleum Institute's Jack Gerard — created a buzz, telling reporters and who knows who else, that the State Department review of Keystone XL would come out Friday and that it would be favorable to the project.

Despite the environmental hoops the State Department still seems to have to jump through, watchdogs fear authorities are intent on giving a thumbs - up to Keystone XL in the name of energy security and in response to pressure from oil interests.

I'm hoping I am but I'm also very suspicious, cf. (apols to own blog link) recent IEA work on EOR's role in increasing proven oil reserves (potential to double them) and CO2's role in EOR (thus I think you have to consider to what extent CCS minus EOR is going to viable / whether actually it's a just a bit too bloody convenient for existing oil interests).

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.

But what is one to make of a climate - change law that withstands a $ 35 million campaign supported by conservative oil interests only to be thrown off course by a legal challenge from the leftier edges of the environmental movement, particularly its environmental justice wing?

Washington Free Beacon — 27 January 2015 Foreign Firm Funding U.S. Green Groups Tied to State - Owned Russian Oil Company Executives at a Bermudan firm funneling money to U.S. environmentalists run investment funds with Russian tycoons A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 2011....

Long - established major oil interests, of course, sound determined not to give an inch, such as a builder of a planned pipeline from the prairies of Canada all the way to the gulf of Mexico through the USA.

Nessergy is linked to Dan Gertler, a controversial businessman who is friends with the Congolese President and the owner of large mining and oil interests in the country.

Still, though, watchdogs remain leery that despite all the talk about careful review, federal authorities are intent on giving the green light to Keystone XL in the name of energy security and in response to pressure from oil interests.

The huge oil interests that control the tar sands aren't content with a landlocked pipeline to the midwest.

According to Harper's, Balling has recieved more than $ 200,000 from coal and oil interests over the past six years.

The reality of BAU is that evil oil interests needn't spend a dime convincing anyone of anything because you can't drive to the store without petrol.

The about - to - retire Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, Phil Radford, unabashedly points to Ross Gelbspan as «the lone voice, the moral compass, the beacon that has inspired countless people, me included, to demand our country and our future back from the coal and oil interests behind global warming» (full text here).

Remember the evidence that a warmist wrote the briefing, a warmist who assumes there is a conspiracy funded by oil interests to spread disinformation — not sure if that is projection or they are just not imaginative to understand that other people operate differently to their own peer group.

In this analysis, Public Campaign Action Fund has attempted to quantify how much coal and oil interests spent in the first six months of 2008.

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.

After all, sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, and if oil interests can influence the science, so too can the interests that stand to gain from seemingly eco-friendly policies.

They say it's evidence of a sinister network intent on distorting the climate debate for oil interests.

And after UAE tried to point the finger at russian oil interests the russians called their bluff.

Willie Soon in particular has a habit of conducting climate «research» on the exclusive dime of coal and oil interests over the last decade:

Dr. Singer has opposed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change consensus document as have coal and oil interests.

«You have received over one million dollars in funds from coal and oil interests.

So Dr. Soon, why should we trust someone without credentials in climate science whose work is only funded by coal and oil interests?»

It is, again, a truly preposterous study; one that the oil interests who pointed to it hoped never fell under scrutiny.

Further, I don't find the attacks on every dissenting scientist because of loose ties to foundations which have been supported by oil interests to be particularly helpful or enlightening.

Under it, Ottawa will play a much smaller role in protecting people from harmful projects, while retaining the right to basically rubber - stamp big projects that powerful oil interests want.

This has angered climate activists, who are determined to connect climate - change «denial» with 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.

David Attenborough joins campaign to protect Africa's oldest national park from oil interests

Mobil's complaint derived from the nationalisation of Venezuelan oil interests by President Chavez's government in Venezuela.

Not exact matches

The recent rise in oil prices fueled expectations the Federal Reserve could flag more interest rate hikes at its policy meeting this week.

LONDON, May 1 (Reuters)- The dollar broke into positive territory for the year and bond yields were creeping higher again on Tuesday, as the recent rise in oil prices fuelled bets that the U.S. Federal Reserve will flag more interest rate hikes this week.