Sentences with phrase «big energy companies»

Molly Walsh, climate justice and energy campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe said «Across Europe, communities know that big energy companies do not have people's best interests at heart and are not making the changes we need to fight climate change.

This new research finds that, in a new frontier for shale gas, big energy companies such as Chevron, Shell and Total are «heading south» to drill in Argentina, including in protected natural areas.

Yet he was strongest at the opening of his performance today, when tackling the backlash from big energy companies on his big conference pledge to freeze gas and electricity bills til 2017, saying he's up to the challenge of taking on those big companies» «scare stories, all the threats — just like we used to hear from the big banks.»

Analysts expect big energy companies to play a major role in dealmaking during another solid year for oil and gas mergers and acquisitions.

During the oilsands boom, Canada's biggest energy company spent money as if oil prices would always be north of $ 100.

Germany's progressive energy policies have also helped balance the village's books: the Renewable Energy Sources Act of 2000 increased the price of energy paid to small energy producers like Juhnde that contribute power to the national grid, and in 2004 an amendment to the act required big energy companies (E.on in Germany) to buy from smaller, sustainable sources.

THE chief executive of one of Australia's biggest energy companies says the national pipeline of new wind farms is «old technology» that is damaging Australia's competitiveness and threatening a jobs «catastrophe» in the coalmining regions of Latrobe and Hunter regions of Victoria and NSW.

It helps big energy companies lower their carbon footprints and capture an even larger share of a shrinking global carbon budget.

At the end of the day, the Petra Nova CCS project offers an all - too - rare example where environmentalists can genuinely applaud big energy companies for developing and deploying tools for the climate solution toolkit.

Across the world's biggest energy companies, women remain underrepresented, even though growing energy demand has increased the need for a larger and more diverse workforce.

Deepa Venkateswaran, senior research analyst for European utilities at Bernstein, speaks about an asset swap between some of Europe's biggest energy companies.

The Energy Ministry is in constant contact with the big energy companies, and they are ready to go ahead with this.

The Energy Ministry is in constant contact with the big energy companies, and they are ready to go ahead with this,» the Kremlin said, reporting Putin's answers to reporters at the Asia - Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.

Too often I read about how «cheap» the big energy companies are only to see them continue to fall.

This is why Friends of the Earth's Final Demand campaign is calling for an urgent public inquiry into the behaviour and influence of the big energy companies.

Given that most of the Tory benches are sceptical about the need for either action to avert climate change or state intervention to direct investment into decarbonisation - and the significant lobbying power of the big energy companies - it is going to be difficult for him.

That's one way to reduce emissions and fight the big energy companies — but Corbyn has many other ideas.

People are already suffering under David Cameron's cost of living crisis and now, thanks to his failure to stand up to the big energy companies, consumers will be hit by ever high bills, with SSE increasing prices by nearly 10 %.

It is right that the big energy companies do not collude.

Facing accusations of operating a price fixing cartel, Britain's six biggest energy companies (British Gas, Scottish & Southern Energy, EDF, E.ON, Scottish & Npower) agreed to disclose the minutes of its board meetings which are held every two months following OFGEM's investigation into price rises which started in January.

The big energy companies, the rip - off lettings agents and TfL under the Tory mayor all have more money.

The former Conservative prime minister, Sir John Major, has called for a one - off tax on the profits of the big energy companies.

«All the good wind farm locations are now owned by the biggest energy companies,» says Greenpeace spokeswoman Sarah Liang.

S: Many people working in the big energy companies have great hopes that there are vast resources of natural gas around the planet that will keep us going for many decades.

And while some of their big energy companies fight it, the big energy companies are also figuring out now how to make money off of this.

Residents there do not know what is owed them by the government, as it takes away land and awards it to India's biggest energy companies to generate coal - fired electricity and power distant megacities, advocates say.

These range from Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM), the biggest energy company in the world, to Octagon 88 (OCT: OCTX), a small cap operating in Canada with very promising holdings.

Which is where your and my retirement comes in: if you have retirement investments in stock or mutual funds, chances are you own a piece of those big energy companies, such as ExxonMobil.

At the same time, the world's biggest energy companies, according to a report from Carbon Tracker, are sitting on a virtual mountain of coal, oil, and gas.

Gov. Jerry Brown met earlier this month with executives from one of the world's biggest energy companies to discuss the possibilities of developing the first offshore wind project in California.

On the other hand, the involvement (and in fact, investment) of a credible and established foreign partner such as the CCX and the asset management arm of one of the biggest energy companies in the world such as CNPC weigh more heavily in TCX's favor, if I were forced to pick an outright winner between the two.

Big energy companies are under increasing pressure from investors to disclose how rising global temperatures and mitigating associated climate risks may impact them.

Big energy companies and utilities are under increasing pressure from investors to disclose how rising global temperatures and...

There is concern that the big energy companies will be pushing carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a way of keeping the oil - based economy running.

In April this year, eight big energy companies, including GE, Shell and the two largest owners of utilities in the United States, Exelon and Duke Energy, were being questioned by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

Carbon Tracker warned last month that big energy companies are ignoring rapid advances in clean technologies − such as renewables, battery storage and electric cars − that threaten to undermine their business models.

As the EU institutions wrap up a climate policy framework for 2030, the CEO of one of Europe's biggest energy companies has issued a fresh call for a carbon tax for the transport and heating sectors as well as a carbon floor price for the industry and power sectors.

Carbon Tracker warned last month that big energy companies are ignoring rapid advances in clean technologies which threaten to undermine their business models, such as renewables, battery storage and electric cars, in a report [1] challenging nine business as usual assumptions made by the industry to argue that coal, oil and gas will all continue to grow in the next decades.

The investments are part of a wider dash for gas among the biggest energy companies, as the industry bets that the clean characteristics of gas compared with oil and coal will allow it to keep growing as other fossil fuels decline.

The analysis challenges nine business as usual (BAU) assumptions made by the big energy companies when calculating that fossil use will continue to grow for the next few decades.

Relying more on natural gas is not a long - term climate solution, but it buys the big energy companies some time and will be needed to help manage the variable nature of wind and solar technologies, at least until large - scale energy storage becomes more economical.

On the policy front, how the big energy companies react depends on whether they believe strict climate policy is not just inevitable but also imminent.

Since hitting its peak in March 2011, the BlackRock iShares Oil Sands Index Fund, which tracks the biggest energy companies operating in Alberta's oil sands, has lost more than two - thirds of its value — and roughly half its value since oil prices began plunging last August.

Sources close to Gates said it was unusual for him to make direct appeals, but there was concern about a lobbying campaign in Washington that would provide the big energy companies with loopholes that would allow them to continue operating in their current fashion.

As President Obama calls for greater investments in alternatives, the biggest energy companies are doubling down on riskier, more destructive oil sources