Sentences with phrase «against huge energy»

Human rights activists who have been honoured today include Reuben Herrera from Guatemala — an activist supporting indigenous protests against huge energy and mining projects in Huehuetenago, a delegation of syndicalists fighting for workers» rights in the Philippines, and Huber Ballesteros from Colombia — a union leader who was one of hundreds imprisoned after a general strike in 2013.

Not exact matches

I compared my vision to the story of Red Bull in the Shark Tank: While I'm competing with industry giants (they were up against huge companies like Pepsi and Coke), success means that you have opened a new market (remember when there wasn't a section of energy drinks in every gas station and grocery store!?!).

Capable of powering 15,000 homes, the system was conceived as part of a backup against projected energy shortages following a huge methane leak at a natural gas facility near Los Angeles.

2:53 Mauricio Pochettino explains how the players will prepare for another high - profile, high - energy game against Liverpool after putting in such a huge effort to beat United on Wednesday night.

Chris Pincher Conservative MP and member of the energy and climate change select committee Policing policy Westminster recently witnessed a huge demonstration when thousands of police officers protested against the arbitrary changes the government is bulldozing through on their working conditions.

What I find ironic is that it is his can - do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to do something about our dependence on fossil fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak Coal, preventing climate change from becoming such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.

California is facing a huge budget deficit as it is, something like $ 35 billion, and a multibillion dollar suit against CARB is the last thing the state needs — especially one that the Renewable Fuels Association and Growth Energy are likely to win.

Back in April, Mr. Morriss couldn't answer Ms. Gordon's inconvenient points about the huge government welfare checks received by the dirty energy industries that fund him while he rails against pro-clean energy policies.

The hugely transparent subsidization of renewables against the stealth subsidization of fossil fuel energy mainly the huge military and security expenditures diluted in budgets accounts.

It is against this backdrop that South Africa's Bokpoort CSP project, a 50 MW CSP (Parabolic Trough) Power Plant approved during the 2nd bidding window of South Africa's Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Programme (REIPPP), celebrated yet another huge milestone in its 2nd year of production.

Please do not continue to accept stakeholders» perspectives without balancing their claims, which are based on projections of huge financial gains for the renewable energy entrepreneurs and investors or on idealistic environmentalists, against solid scientific research (governmental, academic and independent consultants in Ontario, Canada and internationally).

The few relatively minor problems that wind farms cause should be balanced against the huge problems that will arise if we do not replace fossil fuel use with renewable energy such as wind power.

It goes without saying, but these are huge knocks against wearables for energy burn tracking, and if you're doing your best to count every last calorie, don't take your wearable's word for it.