Sentences with phrase «by the oil industry»

His ethanol research is not funded by the oil industry.

Most people, perhaps even deniers knew these scientists were paid by the oil industry for spreading doubt & denial.

To go any deeper, the best option is likely a floating structure similar to that used by the oil industry.

The greatest barriers to clean energy are political, not technical — and these barriers are largely fueled by the oil industry.

Enough public institutions were captured by the oil industry that a state within a state was created: a deep state.

Raising the ethanol cap was opposed by the oil industry, the environmental lobby, and the public health lobby.

Except, of course, when the science in question is funded by the oil industry.

The low price of oil has had an effect on recreational property markets in regions where buyers are typically employed by the oil industry in both Western Canada and Newfoundland.

Petrobras's participation in the ultra-deep water oil business remains mostly passive and is viewed by the oil industry as another form of royalty payment to the state.

Significantly, the new plan is supported by oil industry leaders, environmental organizations and other important stakeholders.»

Mwd Field Engineers are employed by the oil industry and are responsible for performing drilling related - measurements.

Time and again, the path forward has been blocked - not only by oil industry lobbyists, but also by a lack of political courage and candor.

In this case, I was alerted to a reporter's plan to document oil industry funding of contrarian scientists who deny climate change is caused by the oil industry, or who more simplistically say the climate is unfluctuating.

In a January 28, 2007 article in the Toronto Star, the President of the FOS admitted that about one - third of the funding for the FOS is provided by the oil industry.

The Tea Party's ascent has been bolstered by Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a political action committee founded and funded by oil industry interests, including billionaire oil executives Charles and David Koch.

Two days after his activity was revealed in 2005, he left the administration and was hired by oil industry giant ExxonMobil.

(This «Northern Gateway» pipeline is seen by the oil industry as an essential vehicle to develop new markets for Canadian petroleum, especially if the Keystone XL pipeline to move Alberta bitumen to the U.S. Gulf is not approved).

The kind of mindless environmental denial spewed by the oil industry and its press acolytes and paid - for «independent institutes» mirrors the kind of comments I read on my hobbyist US websites.

Indeed, some of the conclusions of Mr. Hughes» latest research do run counter to the prevailing narrative spun by the oil industry and its Western Canadian advocates.

Formed toward the end of the 1950s, two of these groups remain active today: the FARC (Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces), which draws its primary strength from campesinos in the south, and the ELN (Army of National Liberation), whose strength is greater in the north among oil workers, indigenous groups defending their habitat against encroachment by the oil industry, and the Afro - Colombian population.

Famed for its Viking history and quaint wooden buildings, juxtaposed with modern urbanity brought about by its oil industry, Stavanger is fast becoming something of a mecca for adventure travel enthusiasts keen to experience nature at its most raw.

Misrach chose the Mississippi River industrial corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans — a 150 mile span that has been exploited relentlessly by the oil industry since the 1960s and is known alternately as the River Road, Chemical Corridor, and Cancer Alley — to examine human impact upon the landscape, and the detrimental effects of industrial pollution upon the region's inhabitants.

No, this awards blog is named after Vaclav Klaus because he recently told a reporter for the Associated Press in New York City during the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change (sic) sponsored by the Heartland Insitute (sic) funded in part by the oil industry (no sic here), and this man, this human being, this leader of a country in Europe, he told the AP reporter and we quote his now infamous words:

The Zombie XL staggers onward, prodded and pushed by the oil industry and conservative lawmakers — yesterday, 44 senators signed on to legislation that would approve the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

However, a new report raises concerns that even McDaniel has been tainted by the oil industry when hired to help his investigation a firm known «for cover - up and not clean - up.»

this infographic, (an update of a 2012 version which featured only a «90 % consensus» in the left - side third box, basically identical to another 2012 variant) which portrays skeptics as crooks who've been bribed to lie by oil industry money.

This study was hobbled by the oil industry's refusal to provide key data,» Kassie Siegel, senior counsel for the Center for Biological Diversity, said in an emailed statement to ThinkProgress.

The 67 - page suit claims that burning of fossil fuels marketed by the oil industry changes the climate and that these changes are «injuring New York City.»

The US President made a point about economic leadership in the second debate, one Mitt Romney did not oppose: America's environmental and energy policy is determined by the oil industry; it's future is in wind, solar and nuclear.

The EU must uphold its environmental credentials and stand up to the intense lobbying by the oil industry and the Canadian government,» said Franziska Achterberg of Greenpeace.

I guess we would be somewhat suspicious when a research paper sponsored by the oil industry concluded that gasoline powered cars are better for the environment than electric cars... Anyways, the embodied energy of batteries definitely makes electric cars less sustainable than is generally assumed.

Statements by oil industry executives and analysts suggest that, without the KXL pipeline, development of the tar sands would be slowed and limited.

A leaked memo sent by an oil industry group reveals a plan to create astroturf rallies at which industry employees posing as «citizens» will urge Congress to oppose climate change legislation.

My latest study looked at the «climate change reality» constructed by oil industry in its corporate reporting, what language was used to create this reality, and how this changed over time.

The European Commission's guidelines on reducing emissions «upstream» from oil refineries are too weak to drive real action by the oil industry because they leave open the door to questionable carbon offsets, green groups Carbon Market Watch and Transport & Environment (T&E) have said.

And the conclusions were based not on new research but primarily on self - reported industry data, scientific research that was funded or conducted by the oil industry, and government databases that even federal regulators admit are incomplete and sometimes inaccurate.

Members of Americans for Prosperity, a group founded and largely financed by oil industry interests, filed a lawsuit this week seeking to end New York State's participation in the 10 - state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

One of the most wide - spread myths is that climate scepticism is lavishly funded, usually by the oil industry, and is well organised and powerful.

But many legislators have been tasked with promoting the project by oil industry lobbyists who provide them with model bills, talking points and draft op - eds.

As for the claim by oil industry that Keystone XL will create 119,000 total jobs — direct, indirect, and induced jobs — it is «based on flawed and poorly documented study commissioned by TransCanada (the Perryman Group study).

Attacks on electric cars by the oil industry are on a par with misinformation campaigns promoted by big tobacco companies and vested interests undermining climate science, according to Elon Musk, the serial entrepreneur who founded PayPal and the brains behind both the space exploration company SpaceX and the electric sports carmaker Tesla Motors.

Recent research, albeit backed by the oil industry, estimates that Falklands oil could be worth $ 180 billion in royalties and taxes for the U.K., potentially making it that country's answer to the shale boom that continues to generate work for many U.S. lawyers and their firms.

Half of employers in the province said they were forced to cut staff last year and, looking ahead, 28 per cent believe the market will continue to flounder, which is a sentiment echoed by oil industry experts and world leaders.