Sentences with phrase «big oil companies»

With big oil companies — and many countries — needing the current price to double to more than $ 60 a barrel to break even on their current investments.

Since funding from the other side is private, it is strongly attacked as coming from big oil companies.

This explains why most big oil companies support a carbon tax, which will hurt coal much more than oil.

Even big oil companies with expansive security budgets can't keep the bad guys out.

Several big oil companies routinely write scenarios for different ways the energy markets play out.

We won't let big oil companies or the federal government push us around.

Top lawyers for Oakland and San Francisco in California announced yesterday that they filed lawsuits against five of the world's biggest oil companies for damages related to climate change.

Would be great to examine if in fact most of Quebec's problems can be blamed on big oil companies in Alberta.

Bringing Power to the People The notion that solar power could overtake fossil fuels is disputed, of course, by big oil companies like Exxon Mobil and Shell.

Inhofe has made regular speeches opposing global warming, and has consistently voted in favor of big oil companies on oil - related bills.

With this acquisition though, Shell will position itself better to compete against big oil companies.

Other big oil companies including Phillips 66 also own refineries small enough to be eligible for a waiver, as does CVR Energy which is owned by billionaire investor and Trump ally Carl Icahn.

«I think the public's been very frustrated over the years, whether you're talking about big oil companies or real estate developers or anybody who thinks they can tell government what to do,» he added.

There were no test tubes or Bunsen burners, but a courtroom turned into a science classroom Wednesday for a U.S. judge considering lawsuits that accuse big oil companies of lying about the role of fossil fuels in the Earth's warming environment.

Zinke's plan could give big oil companies and other polluters new access to vital grouse habitat.

So a note to all those armchair environmentalists encouraged by European - based big oil companies» (Shell, Total, BP, Statoil) willingness to take the carbon bubble seriously: when the rubber hits the road, other, more powerful voices in the industry aren't going down without a fight.

Many of the world's biggest oil companies continue to feel the pain as low oil prices continue to undercut profits and lead to shuttered projects and layoffs.

Later, as sole leader of the Sibneft company, he completed a merger that made it the fourth biggest oil company in the world.

Weprin also wants big oil companies and businesses that ship jobs overseas to pay more in taxes.

For 5 hours, opposing sides in a closely watched climate change lawsuit pitting the cities of San Francisco and Oakland against some of the world's biggest oil companies offered Alsup their accounts of the history and current state of climate science.

That the world's biggest oil companies share standards for ultradeep - water drilling is encouraging; it means there are no cowboys out there, winging it with untried technologies.

The greater sage grouse as a species isn't having it much easier: Under the new Trump administration, in June 2017 Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced plans for a «review» threatening to undermine efforts to protect the greater sage grouse across 11 western states, therebygiving big oil companies and other polluters potential new access to vital grouse habitat.

He's put on the spot regarding big oil company PetroFex's possibly preventable refinery explosion in Scarrow that kills 19 and injures 94.

Surprisingly, big oil companies only own about 3 % of all gas stations and convenience stores in the U.S..

The Trans Atlantic and Trans Pacific trade agreements, both of which are currently under negotiation by the Obama adminstration, would allow big oil companies and Wall Street financiers to sue for millions in compensation for the cost of complying with environmental and other regulations.

Most of my career was spent working for lesser - known, mid-size companies (Husky Oil, OMV, Encana) rather than the notorious Big Oil Companies.

Many big oil companies, including Shell, ExxonMobil and BP, deny that any threat exists.

A majority of shareholders, over 62 percent, voted in favor of America's biggest oil company releasing detailed analyses of the risks that climate change poses to its business.

If you're going to attack somebody on the way they conduct their life, let's talk about the big picture, let's see what big oil companies are doing.»

After he and BP Chariman Carl - Henric Svanberg have now clumsily uttered too many gaffes to count: after saying how «big oil companies care about the «small people»» and how Hayward «wants his life back», and saying that the spill is tiny compared to the big ocean, the BP upper management hasn't exactly endeared themselves to the American people.

Schwarzenegger is planning on taking on big oil companies for «knowingly killing people all over the world» in the name of their product, USA Today reports.

We have known for years that Big Oil companies like BP sponsor iconic arts institutions in the UK as a way of greenwashing their image and helping the company with its «social licence to operate».

Would be great to examine if in fact most of Quebec's problems can be blamed on big oil companies in Alberta.

De Blasio has declared himself a foe of global warming by filing suit against big oil companies, but his travel habits — which rely heavily on SUVs, even to go to the gym — undermine his rhetoric.

& # 9650 ExxonMobil Every time the laundry list of operational lapses at BP got trotted out this year, the obvious point of contrast was rival ExxonMobil, the biggest of Big Oil companies.

And so did other big oil companies.