Sentences with phrase «from foreign oil companies»

Americans understand that it is wrong to play political games and strip families of our right to protect our land and our clean water from foreign oil companies, because you can't drink oil.»

Greenpeace investigators then asked Peter Lipsett of DonorsTrust whether they would be willing to accept the funds from a foreign oil company.

Not exact matches

From doggie spas to oil companies, employers have been given the green light to hire temporary foreign workers even in regions of the country struggling with joblessness, including the Maritimes and southwestern Ontario, and in sectors where there is no apparent lack of domestic candidates.

All the while, the industry thrived financially under a combination of high oil prices, low natural gas prices (a major input cost), recession - induced relief from cost inflation and a reduced cost of capital as majors and foreign national oil companies gobbled up wobbly juniors.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

China's oil industry began a new era of growth as early as 2008, and from 2009 to 2013 Chinese oil companies were particularly keen on investing in foreign oil assets.

The new International Energy Exchange (INE) in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone has admitted more than 150 Chinese futures companies and is registering foreign firms to trade an oil - futures contract denominated in renminbi, according to a client bulletin from Linklaters in Hong Kong.

Among the factors that could cause actual results and outcomes to differ materially from those contained in such forward - looking statements are the following: macro-economic conditions (including fluctuations in housing prices, oil markets, jobless rates and other indicators), credit market changes and constraints, foreign currency fluctuation, the company's ability to manage its property portfolio, the impact of labor markets, failure to effectively manage costs or achieve anticipated expense and cost reductions, and disruptions in our supply chain or information technology systems.

better yet — he's the type of guy to extort money from a congregation that doesn't understand global economics, fiat currency, OPEC, oil production, the supply chain, the exploration of oil reserves or how foreign / state run companies keep supply low to drive up demand which they then use the proceeds to seed their Islamic theocracies which in turn oppress woman and preach anti-American propaganda.

Our Gold and oil is owned by foreign companies and we receive less than 12.5 % of revenue from them.

«I am a woman from the Niger Delta, who, through perseverance and sheer hard work rose to one of the highest positions in the country's premier International Oil Company, and in tune with my ethos of hard work, I earned the prestigious British Foreign and Commonwealth Chevening Scholarship Award and was, thereafter, admitted to my MBA programme at the World renowned Cambridge University,» she said.

The cultural upheaval that comes from the post-colonial presence of foreign oil companies is important to the story, but we see it strictly through its immediate effects on Blessing's life.

But apart from their military duties they were all on the board of directors of several parastatals closely linked to foreign companies, particularly those involved in the exploration of oil and the mining of precious metals.

«Treating this pipeline facility and company differently than all other regulated projects and entities that operate in Vermont would arguably run afoul of federal pre-emption principles that explicitly bar states from regulating oil pipeline safety; potentially constitute an impermissible attempt to nullify the President's exercise of his foreign affairs power under the U.S. Constitution as reflected in the Presidential Permits issued to Portland Pipe Line and potentially impose an unconstitutional burden on foreign or interstate commerce.»

I personally would pay more for a car just to get out from under the oil companies & foreign oil dependance... even if the price of gas went back to $ 1.

In other words, the EU, China and Latin America get the oil, the foreign - owned oil companies get the profits and North Americans are left cleaning up oil spills and shouldering the pollution burden from extracting and refining the dirty tar sands.

The Extractive Industries Transparency Disclosure (EITD) Act, introduced by Chairman Barney Frank, is a simple and low - cost change to Securities and Exchange Commission rules to ensure that SEC - regulated oil and mining firms, including US companies and most of their main competitors from Europe, Russia and China, disclose their payments to foreign governments.

The letter from 14 members of the House of Representatives, led by Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.), notes their concern with the SEC in being so far behind in meeting the April 2011 statutory deadline for releasing final rules governing a program for oil, gas and mining companies to have to disclose the payments, at project - level, they make to foreign governments...

But a closer look at the new realities of the global oil market and at the companies who will profit from the pipeline reveals a completely different story: Keystone XL will not lessen U.S. dependence on foreign oil, but rather transport Canadian oil to American refineries for export to overseas markets.

The plaintiff alleged his arrest resulted from Iranian government efforts to force him to pay a percentage of his consultant's commission from a joint venture between the Iranian national oil company and a foreign consortium.