Sentences with phrase «from oil wealth»

That kind of money can only come from oil wealth, but Yemen has no oil reserves.

Not exact matches

From the carefully groomed, designer suit - clad media wealth manager, to the tweed jacket and signet ring of the chap who dealt with the landed gentry, to the oil wealth manager's keffiyeh, the private wealth managers were carefully selected to make the best possible connection with their clients.

Take government - owned sovereign wealth funds for example: Over $ 5 trillion is invested in global capital markets from SWF's coming directly from oil - producing nations.

Considered the blue collar city of Alberta's oil patch, much of the wealth comes from tradespeople who work in the oil sands.

JULY 2012: Mitchell Anderson, as part of a larger project in collaboration with Tides Canada reporting on Canada's transition to cleaner energy, travels to Norway and a files widely read stories on how that nation has gained far more wealth from its oil reserves than has Alberta.

In terms of wealth transfers (ignoring price differentials), that's a wash for us and a loss for the U.S. and a gain for the country from which we buy oil on the east coast.

Eventually, Rockefeller's oil operations became so vast that he could fund all of his expansion efforts from his own profits, but there was a point in time in which Morgan was mad as hell that he couldn't get an asset override on Rockefeller's wealth, and you better believe there is a take - home lesson in that anecdote.

His travels took him on a whirlwind sojourn, from the massive shale gas deposit in the Marcellus Formation to Alberta's remote oil sands region, helping his readers build life - changing wealth every step of the way.

New Norwegian wealth is derived largely from tech companies and other entrepreneurs, he notes, as well as the oil sector.

Meanwhile, sovereign wealth funds in the UAE, Kuwait and Qatar are flush with cash from high oil prices and are on the lookout for attractively priced European assets.

Well, the last time Americans had a president who was psychologically «programmed» to ignore facts that didn't agree with his beliefs, the USA ended up wasting $ 1T in an illegal war to «liberate» 100's of billions of barrels of Iraqi oil (as many as 1.2 M people died in the process due to violence, disease & starvation resulting from the conflict), nearly $ 5T was added to the U.S. federal debt, a man with experience as the Judges and Stewards Commissioner for the International Arabian Horse Association was put in charge of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the U.S. subprime credit «bubble» expanded hugely & then imploded, wiping out some $ 14T in global wealth & destroying millions of jobs, etc..

For it is in humble things like tar and crude oil in the desert that the great wealth» the black gold» from oil refineries is rendered usable (but not until the late nineteenth century).

Russia is doing quite well from its oil and natural resources (except for the recent oil price crash) and has no interest in using the wealth to annex and prop up former soviet states in eastern Europe (although they do want their port in Crimea).

Longer answer: OPEC was developed as a way for under - developed economies with oil wealth to fight back against the power of multinational corporations mostly from Britain and the U.S. Norway didn't have that problem, and so wasn't really concerned with the same issues of OPEC.

Luanda failed to use its oil wealth to diversify its economy, and its rhetoric of state building and poverty alleviation obscured the fact that dos Santos» allies were benefiting massively from kickbacks and contracts generated by government investment.

What's more, the ease of wealth creation from oil readily attracts those whose sole interests lie in personal profit, religious agenda or geopolitical power.

Some supported the proposal on equity and fairness grounds, since elites were already perceived to benefit disproportionately from the state's resources, through special - interest appropriations of oil wealth, and because it would bring a huge benefit to low - income Alaskans and those living at a subsistence level.

That would certainly skew the premise that rich nations are less religious than poor nations, even if the oil nations derive wealth from natural resources and not industry.

«To sponsor the Ghana Premier league with capital injection of one million dollars each season, to remove Airport Taxes, to remove utility bills paid by university students living on campus, to increase and give Ghanaians high quality infrastructure nationwide, loans from Western World will be abolished, Woyome will pay back our money, continuation of Mahama projects and we will use our oil wealth income to clear all Ghana's debt.»

The Rockefellers, who made their vast fortune on oil, and other philanthropies and high - wealth individuals on Monday will announce pledges to divest a total of $ 50 billion from fossil fuel investments.

Obiang, who has ruled the African country since 1979, stands accused of diverting millions from the country's oil wealth into his own coffers, and his government has a dismal track record on human rights.

«We are engaged in the largest transfer of wealth in the history of the world, from the industrialized countries into oil producing regions,» FedEx chairman Fred Smith said.

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Against the backdrop of oil paintings depicting these events, the prologue concludes by noting that wealth and opportunity shifted away from black communities, where the only white people left were the police who patrolled the streets.

From the PEN USA Award - winning author of A Country Called Home, a richly imagined new novel about a young woman who leaves the dusty farmland of 1960s Oklahoma to follow her husband to the oil fields of Saudi Arabia and finds a world of wealth, glamour, American privilege, and corruption.

Considered the blue collar city of Alberta's oil patch much of the wealth comes from tradespeople that work in the oil sands.

Considered the blue collar city of Alberta's oil patch, much of the wealth comes from tradespeople who work in the oil sands.

Building on the new commitments on greenhouse gas emissions pledged by China and the United States, Razak laid out a strategy for his country (facilitated by wealth derived from abundant oil and gas reserves) to become a leader in developing renewable energy and pursuing energy - efficient design.

5) From the tenor of your blog I assume you are a Republican and a rightwinger who supported Bush, Cheney and the other certifiable petro - nuts who took us into a war for oil (though I would not characterize Bush and Cheney and their sponsors and business allies as «nuts,» rather, shortsighted, greedy, concerned only with the accumulation of personal wealth).

In the meantime, how do you personally weigh the costs of changing from unfettered burning of the fuels of convenience — coal and oil — which have created so much wealth, for the sake of limiting future risks?

«How do you personally weigh the costs of changing from unfettered burning of the fuels of convenience — coal and oil — which have created so much wealth, for the sake of limiting future risks?»

There are signs that the movement is gaining momentum, especially with last week's announcement that Norwegian Sovereign Wealth (oil) Fund has divested from a total of 22 companies — one of the biggest divestment decisions to date.

The Scaife Foundations consist of a trio of foundations that had been directed by the late billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, whose wealth was inherited from the Mellon industrial, oil, aluminum and banking fortune.

Much of Montana's past wealth and prosperity was built on exploitation of its abundant natural resources, from copper and timber in the west to coal and grazing lands in the east to oil and gas on the Rocky Mountain Front.

Wealth transfers from oil have been used, and continue to be used, to fund terrorism and Its ideological support.

His most recent presidential financial disclosure, filed in 2015, showed that a sizeable portion of his wealth in recent years has come from energy investments and consulting work for a Texas equipment firm that provides heavy machinery for oil exploration work.

DeSmog UK's new three - part investigative series Empire Oil: London's Dirty Secret, lifts the veil on a «boys» club» that generates wealth for The City from environmentally damaging activities in politically unstable regions.

She said, «Mr. Musk, what do you think about the fact that Norway, while we have a very green electricity supply, our sovereign wealth fund is all from oil revenue, from the oil that we're selling to the rest of the world from the Bering Sea?

Likewise, Norway's sovereign wealth fund is considering divesting from oil and gas, despite the fund being supported by the country's vast oil reserves.

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Later this century we will probably start to develop sources of abundant energy that may, incidentally, be «carbon neutral» (nuclear fusion, zero - point energy, etc.) Right now, however, most of our wealth comes from commerce and industry that largely depend on energy sources such as oil, coal and gas.

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With the new cabinet so blatantly in favor of corporate wealth and expanded oil and gas development, climate change is one reality that is certain to be on the list of inconvenient facts to be denied, deleted from federal websites, and discouraged from being disseminated.

If you were in the business of being a coal, oil, and manufacturing tycoon, chances are you'd be making the same moves — using a tiny sliver of your vast wealth to protect the forces that would prevent that wealth from becoming even more vast.

Indeed, Dubai's success is derived not from a wealth of oil, but the lack thereof, as compared to its neighbouring Emirate, Abu Dhabi.

Net wealth: Koch Industries, the private oil and gas empire they inherited from their father and have a controlling majority stake in, has made them both incredibly wealthy.

Railroad access from Chicago made the area a popular summer retreat for the barons of wealth in lumber, cattle, oil, steel, cement, manufacturing, and durable goods (e.g., Morton Salt, Wrigley Chewing Gum), with mansions and large homes such as Stone Manor and Black Point built on the lake from the 1850s, through the heyday of the Roaring 20s, and up...

In spite of concerns about how falling oil prices might affect sovereign wealth funds» investment strategies, the funds» have been steadily growing their assets under management well into March of this year, according to a report from...