Our ministers must do the same at the Warsaw conference, and not let
the dirty coal lobbyists dressed up as Australian government officials get in the way of urgent, immediate, emission controls by developed countries and a ban on new fossil fuel projects.»
Not exact matches
3 — Of course, that just by itself would not have been a significant incentive, so the original wind development
lobbyists then made the case for a quantum leap: that by adding wind turbines to the grid we could significantly reduce CO2 from those «
dirty» fossil fuel electrical sources (especially
coal).
What hasn't been reported is the complementary role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has peddled laws written by corporate
lobbyists through state legislatures that make it easy for its
dirty energy members, such as Exxon, Koch Industries and Peabody
coal, to influence how climate science is presented to students.
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has peddled laws written by corporate
lobbyists through state legislatures that make it easy for its
dirty energy members, such as Exxon, Koch Industries and Peabody
coal, to influence how climate science is presented to students.
Dressed as corporate
lobbyists, they constructed a huge blockade of leaky oil barrels and bags of
coal, to symbolise the
dirty energy companies blocking action on climate change.
The immediate threat in the United States is that
dirty energy
lobbyists will effectively use hypothetical arguments of WTO or NAFTA illegality to chill congressional action and provide cover for U.S. legislators who are indebted to Big Oil, Big
Coal and the LNG lobby for campaign contributions, even though international trade law is not incorporated into U.S. domestic law and violations can not be enforced in U.S. domestic courts.
Dirty energy
lobbyists, including those of Chevron, could effectively use hypothetical arguments of TTIP illegality to chill government action on both sides of the Atlantic to curtail hydraulic «fracking» for natural gas, deny permits for liquefied natural gas export terminals, close
coal - fired power plants, and prohibit new
coal mining, oil drilling, and oil / gas pipeline operations, among others.
Vital in this
dirty business are the
lobbyists who are willing to ignore the massive external costs of
coal and make a career peddling the
coal industry's continued grip on U.S. electricity production.
This matters because the climate change debate has been hi - jacked, emissions made worse by the net effects of renewables for a fast
lobbyist buck in fact, driven by ignorance and misleading attacks that lump clean low carbon gas with
dirty high carbon
coal, and old school anti-nuclear activists who oppose nuclear generation on factualy spurious grounds, while it is in physics and engineering fact by far the best solution on any measure, through promoting irrational fear unsupported in any area of the facts and proven physics they deceive the unknowing about with simply false or msleading «sience».