Sentences with phrase «by oil companies»

The truth of the matter is this: The environmental movement has been generously funded by oil companies for the past 50 years.
I don't get paid by the oil companies to question global warming, although I really don't see anything wrong with that.
All too often, explosions are caused by an oil company's negligent or reckless lack of regard for industry safety standards.
They argue that this amounts to an attempt by the oil company to hide information about global warming from consumers.
Any station that wants to sell those fuels and is stopped by oil companies will be allowed to.
I can prove global warming is destroying the planet but you all of you be like this is a plot by the oil companies that want carbon trading credits to make them richer.
Oil pollution by oil companies in Nigeria increases violence and killings at the sites of extraction.»
But if you dig deeper, you'll find that SPPI — and their ilk — are sponsored by oil companies who borrowed the tobacco industry's guidebook.
Water also comes to the surface during oil drilling, but it is unclear how much of that «produced water» is reused by the oil companies for new production because there are currently no reporting requirements, something the bill seeks to address.
California thought there might have been some kind of conspiracy by oil companies to hide secrets about global warming... Aiding his honor were two friend - of - the - court briefs, one of which was led by Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, Willie Soon, David Legates, Yours Truly, and others.
Spending by oil companies fell sharply as oil plunged below $ 30 a barrel in 2016, dragging on U.S. economic growth.
In fact, fully 25 percent of global hydrogen production is made by oil companies themselves at refineries to improve the quality of crude oil.
The group believe that there should be no cultural sponsorship by oil companies in a time of climate change, and fits within a wider set of politics around decolonising and democratising the museum.
The elusive graffiti artist created the image, which depicts a bird with a head made of a petrol - pump nozzle, as an indictment of world pollution by oil companies.
Thus understood, the «bubble» in high yield energy debt was not created by the simple issuing of debt by oil companies.
He threw himself into the fire to point a spotlight on some seriously shady practices by oil companies gearing up to destroy unspoiled land.
Would it be remotely appropriate for the IPCC to use a document created by an oil company as the sole basis for dramatic statements about future events?
Nonetheless, these workarounds by the oil companies played a critical role in the recent conflagration, both in safely evacuating Fort McMurray residents and in enabling producers to quickly ramp up again.
But Brent crude prices slipped back below $ 50 in the second quarter as U.S. shale production surged, sparking a wave of price forecast downgrades from banks and prompting investors to focus again on cost cutting by oil companies.
S&P also estimates that 50 % of debt issued by oil companies is at risk.
The profits were recorded by the oil companies» affiliates in non-tax jurisdictions.
The fact is they have potential but they are not light crude they have to be pressed out of the earth through a fracturing process that up until the price of oil went over 75 $ a barrel was deemed too expensive by the oil companies to go after.
An investigation being carried out by a team of lawyers hired by the federal government has so far confirmed that hundreds of millions of barrels of oil were stolen by oil companies and shipped to many countries.
Until the 1990s, the U.S. was the major supplier of rare earths, largely out of one mine in Mountain Pass, Calif., owned by oil company Unocal, now part of Chevron.
That said, Sweeney said he couldn't recall any previous instance of collusion or other nefarious intent by oil companies to raise prices in California.
(The crater actually had been discovered in the late 1970s by oil company scientists.
Louisiana Story tells the tale of the disruption that mechanisation, in particular the speculative oil drilling performed by an oil company in the hitherto untouched, pristine environment of a Louisiana bayou, can bring to the environment.
Acclaimed theater designer Robert Zentis built the set, a complete gas station facing imminent razing by an oil company.
Activists occupied the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall overnight on Saturday in protest at the gallery's sponsorship by oil company BP.
While the tectonic plates of geopolitical conspiracy shift in the background, the film asks us to look, and look again, at images produced by the oil company, together with personal photos taken by its British staff in Iran — including the filmmaker's parents — not for what they show, but for what they betray.
Red - headed Dia director Philippe Vergne was dressed in optimism — the new armor under Obama — and spoke of his mission this week to save Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty from contamination by oil companies planning to drill into Utah's Great Salt Lake.
Well, clearly the BEST alternative that will most effectively lower the prices and alleviate the «pressure at the pump» is to increase supply... and so therefore we should start offshore drilling and open up ANWR to be delicately tickled by oil companies (footprint?
He proposes a «cap and dividend» system that charges a rising fee on sources of greenhouse - gas emissions (to propel a long - term shift away from such pollution) and returns the revenue to citizens, rich or poor, through a direct payment not unlike the checks that Alaska residents get every year from fees paid to the state by oil companies.
Just in case you doubted the power of money to frustrate attempts to rein in greenhouse gases, read Margot Roosevelt's news story in the Los Angeles Times about the successful effort, paid for mainly by oil companies, to put an initiative on the fall ballot that could suspend the state's pioneering, and troubled, climate law, Assembly Bill 32.
Even worse, the republican party, which once contained a number of members who recognized the validity of climate science, has since been gobbled up by oil company special interests bent on creating a cloud of silence, inaction, and misinformation over the issue.
I also note the multi-million-dollar grants to «mainstream» climate scientists by private foundations, and even by oil companies such as Exxon and BP.
Today, the Obama Administration released a fact sheet describing a new initiative included in the President's upcoming budget proposal, which will include a new fee paid by oil companies along with increased investments in new transportation options.
By the same token many anti-environmentalists (eventually backed by oil companies) declare solar power not sustainable.
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