Sentences with phrase «economic grounds»

After all, energy costs money and unless we find ourselves in «climate crisis» mode, solutions to climate change will be considered on economic grounds as well as on efficacy.

We joined on economic grounds when the political consequences were vastly more important.

If gas and oil prices rise, and if domestic and public buildings are better insulated, it is possible that electricity could be used extensively for heating, purely on economic grounds.

And we're clearly in a «virtuous circle», with increased RE deployments driving economies of scale that deliver consistent and rapid price drops (most markedly in the case of solar PV)-- and with real - world cases of RE displacing thermal capacity directly on purely economic grounds already happening now (as noted above.)

Meadway, and others like him, support independence on economic grounds as well - but Scots might find it curious that they were expected to go through the severe challenges of secession partly so that the ensuing chaos in Westminster would give English radicals an opening, while denying the US an extra hanger - on the next time the White House goes to war.

This was cancelled on economic grounds before Chernobyl exploded.

At the time, the consultancy reported that there was little economic grounds to justify the existence of the CSB.

First of all, I spent much of the 1980s testifying at state public utility commissions against new nuclear power plants on economic grounds only.

But when Schneider spoke, he appealed to the audience on blunt economic grounds.

Purely on economic grounds surely we should be spending at least a similar amount of money to avoid disasters as the cost of the disasters that climate change is causing.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

There is no justification for introducing income splitting on social or economic grounds, certainly not in the current economic environment.

The conclusion of his analysis is that completely eliminating the deficit, which has been the government's objective since 2010, was never really necessary, at least not on economic grounds.

But the net - benefit test gives Canadians a false impression that the government is able to distinguish, on economic grounds, investments that will turn out well from those that won't — a concept Canadians would recognize as bizarre if applied to domestic firms.

Even with WWI, or even more so with Iraq I, where stronger cases can be for the importance of U.S. economic motivation, it becomes very hard to distinguish the «we must not let Germany control Europe» or «Iraq control the Gulf» - type argument made on geostrategic grounds, from the same argument made on economic grounds.

Thomas Lincoln, who favored the Separate Baptist Church, apparently opposed slavery on both religious and economic grounds.

It's amazing how many conservatives actually think that she is some sort of a Republican hero on economic grounds.

The firing of the Director of the FBI can hardly be justified on economic grounds, and despite the White House claiming that Comey's dismissal was based on mismanagement and lack of credibility, evidence and theory suggest otherwise.

The Thames Estuary Airport proposal, then described as being at «Cliffe» (in the constituency which I now represent), was ruled out on both environment and economic grounds, but the Labour government recommended a second runway at Stansted in 2011 - 12, a third runway at Heathrow in 2015 - 20 and, eventually, a second runway at Gatwick in the mid-2020s.

While steadfast in his opposition to a downtown casino on moral, ethical and economic grounds, the Rev. Marlowe Washington said casino owner Delaware North Cos. offered donations as incentives for ministers to speak out against the proposal.

In addition to its potential to afford some degree of racial justice, marijuana legalization might also make sense on economic grounds.

Most, like Ireland, which in early November moved towards legalising supervised heroin use and possible decriminalisation of other drugs, have cited health and economic grounds.

They say that BST has met all the usual scientific requirements of safety and quality, and that a ban on political or economic grounds is unjustified.

The City's school system has begun to accept this idea, but still resists a widespread move to small schools on economic grounds.

So while insurers may not sanction repairs based on economic grounds, that doesn't mean it is not worth repairing the damaged car.

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This is a sick and insane activity, and can not even be justified on economic grounds.

I am a great supporter of onshore wind but have misgivings over offshore wind, tide and wave energy, at least in the short term, on economic grounds.

Without these giveways, including things such as military forces to patrol the oil lanes in the Gulf, alternate technologies will become instantly attractive on economic grounds.

Calling on people to protect the global climate because it is sacred, both for its own God - given value and for the life and dignity of all humankind, not just the affluent few, will create far more personal commitment than a government call for action on economic grounds or an activist's call on environmental grounds.

If the OEB were to review the long - term energy plans, consumer groups, environmentalists and industry would have the chance to test those plans on environmental and economic grounds.

It comes as the Trump administration is moving to reverse actions taken at the end of the Obama administration to review the coal leasing program on climate and economic grounds.

Yet the economic advantages of a carbon tax are so manifest that it is still possible, once the fiscal cliff negotiations are finished and talks turn to a truly transformative tax reform deal, that leaders in Congress will begin to reconsider it, especially it if is marketed on economic grounds.

This support is on economic grounds.

He challenges on economic grounds some climate change policies, and the skewed priorities that lead to the ineffective spending of money on the wrong environmental solutions.

More troubling, honoring even the conventional 2 degrees C target has so far proven extremely challenging on political and economic grounds.

That shift will in turn unlock government policy and public opinion because the previous resistance to action argued on economic grounds, will reverse to favour action on economic grounds.

You can make arguments on economic grounds, but then you shouldn't be arguing with us at RealClimate, since we're by no means economics experts.

This determination is made on economic grounds, with the most competitive oil, gas and coal projects being assumed to go ahead in preference to high - cost alternatives.

The termination of the treaties on economic grounds would therefore require the current situation to change for the much better or for the much worse.

Basically, Congress justified the Act on economic grounds and argued that it has the power to do so under the commerce clause of the Constitution.

the Administrative Courts, in relation to disputes concerning the validity of collective dismissal procedures on economic grounds (validity of the collective lay - off plan);

in addition to showing that they have no personal, proprietary or pecuniary interest in the litigation that would justify the proceedings on economic grounds, the plaintiffs must show that it would not have been possible to effectively pursue the litigation in question with private funding

Many people opposed this idea — mainly on economic grounds.