Sentences with phrase «fuel extraction companies»

Or going further to full divestment from the most polluting fossil fuel extraction companies.

I mentioned this to executives at Exxon before it was Exxon Mobile many times back in the 1990s when I was working with you all that if you were an energy company rather than a fossil fuel extraction company you could be part of the future instead of part of the past.

Not exact matches

In the energy sector, improved fossil - fuel extraction methods and differing growth outlooks are forcing legacy companies to reconsider their strategies.

It is why natural - gas extraction — the controversial practice known as fracking — has been virtually free of environmental regulation since 2005, and why government - owned car companies get to use taxpayer money to lobby against stricter fuel - economy standards proposed by the government.

The Fund avoids companies engaged in the extraction, exploration, production, manufacturing, or refining of fossil fuels.

As the fossil fuel divestment movement grows increasingly mainstream — even BlackRock recently partnered with the Natural Resources Defense Council to launch an «equity global index series that will exclude companies linked to exploration, ownership or extraction of carbon - based fossil fuel reserves» — the smart long - term investment money would seem to be on divestment.

Along with other major fossil fuel companies, it deceived the public about the risks of its products and kept us on a path of unabated fossil fuel extraction.

Total is a French multinational company, one of the major in Europe, whose business cover the entire oil and gas chain, from the exploration and the extraction of the fossil fuels, to power generation including the transportation and the distribution of energy, while also being involved in products trading.

The decision to retain holdings in the fossil fuel industry flies in the face of recommendations from a climate change committee appointed by Reif, which this summer issued a report noting that three - quarters of the committee supported «targeted divestment from companies whose operations are heavily focused on the exploration for and / or extraction of the fossil fuels that are least compatible with mitigating climate change.»

Jobs and local procurement New fossil fuel extraction projects generate jobs and, in the case of foreign - owned fossil fuel companies, they also inject foreign funds into our economy via wages and local procurement of goods and services.

There are others, high level employees and strategists of major oil companies, who are driving the business of fossil fuel extraction and can no longer take the defense that they were just following orders.

By divesting their assets from fossil fuels, they are reducing the ability for big oil, coal and gas companies to develop new extraction projects, while citizens worldwide are rising to stop these projects in their communities,» said Yossi Cadan, Global Divestment Senior Campaigner at 350.org.

DOI's budget successfully greases the wheels for more government giveaways to fossil fuel companies that will facilitate additional extraction — but it also slashes support for renewables, the kind of energy that America really needs.

R&D for renewable energy, de-funding the EPA Energy Star program, ignoring the Social Cost of Carbon, renewing leasing / sale of coal on Federal lands without regard to whether the coal companies are paying a reasonable price, threatening to open more Federal lands to fossil fuel extraction... the list goes on.