Sentences with phrase «fuel sector at»

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The recent consolidation in the sector — in addition to Loblaw's Shoppers buy, Empire Co. bought Canada Safeway in June — is a bid to fuel growth, says Bobby Hagedorn, an equity research analyst at Edward Jones.

And, the New T - Mobile plans to invest up to $ 40 billion in its new network and business in the first three years alone, a massive capital outlay that will fuel job growth at the new company and across related sectors.

Until we understand this do not expect the global crisis to end anytime soon, except perhaps temporarily with a new surge in credit - fueled consumption in the US (which will cause the trade deficit to worsen) and more wasted investment in China (which, because it is financed with cheap debt, which comes at the expense of the household sector, may simply increase investment at the expense of consumption).

«At the moment we do not have any reliable data on fuel consumption, but we are working on a survey that would provide the information for the sector.»

On the one hand, the sector's growth is fueled in part by those at the top of the socioeconomic ladder — that is, consumers who can afford the often - pricey services and products not covered by insurance.

All sectors involved in developing and policies and programmes to deliver on fuel poverty targets should attend including representatives from local government and RSLs; central government; the energy industry; Green Deal installer organisations; health agencies; voluntary and not for profit agencies at a national and local level.

Where NNPC is operating truly as a government agency and it control productive activities in that sector, Is NNPC saddled with importing the whole fuel that is required whether it is at depot or not.

Speaking at the launch event, European Commissioner for Climate Action & Energy Miguel Arias Cañete said: «The European energy sector is undergoing a change of paradigm - from a system based on fossil fuels, towards a more efficient, more sustainable, clean energy sector.

He said Parliament had expected no increase in fuel prices at all or even if there will be, it will be marginal due to the introduction of the energy sector levy introduced by the executive under a certificate of urgency.

The sector Minister Mr Boakye Agyarko who had earlier constituted a body to investigate the matter, announced at a press conference in Accra on the 4th of July that a joint investigations conducted by the BNI and National Security, found nothing wrong with the decision to sell the contaminated fuel to Movenpiina Company Limited.

«The health and wellbeing of thousands of very vulnerable households is being put at risk, and we urge the Government to urgently bring forward a new fuel poverty and energy efficiency programme funded through the VAT and other taxes the Government receives from energy bills and the energy sector.»

Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday, the President said the Committee will continue to investigate the matter and provide recommendations to help rid the sector of contaminated fuel.

Following the Atomic Gas Explosion that killed at least 7 people and injured 132 in Accra, Government after a crucial cabinet meeting, announced a number of directives, about ten of them, geared towards sanitizing the fuel distribution and retail sector, to improve safety and save more lives.

By following carbon emissions in more than 100 countries and 57 industrial sectors — from the extraction of the fuels to the energy inputs in creating goods and services to delivery to the final consumer — he and his colleagues uncovered a more complete story of who emits the world's greenhouse gases, and at which point in the supply chain.

Carbon capture has never been proved at scale in the power sector but is considered the chief way to control heat - trapping emissions from coal, gas and other fossil fuels.

If doubling continues at this pace fossil fuels will exit the energy sector well before 2050,» says lead author Johan Rockström director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University.

The shift back to fossil fuels, combined with rapid growth in the number of cars on the roads (see «Fuelling Brazil's transport boom»), has worsened city smog and caused emissions in the transport sector to spike at about 170 million tons of CO2 in 2011, up from less than 140 million tons in 2008.

Despite recent budget cuts within the sector, both locally and nationally, Shaw Education Trust successfully hosted a laughter - fuelled, skill based day at a fraction of the cost of an event usually that size.

In a new paper looking at the charter sector in California, Green and Joseph Oluwole, associate professor of educational leadership at Montclair State University, examine how the private entities that are fueling charter school expansion in the state are essentially robbing traditional schools in the neighborhood from state funding and resources.

Bosch will highlight its hydraulic hybrid drivetrain at the IAA Commercial Vehicle Show in Hanover, Germany as one of its solutions to help reduce fuel consumption and lower emissions in the commercial vehicle sector.

The first one is Future Fuel Corp. (FF) that I feel is both interesting and unique at the same time within this sector.

- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».

Team objectives comprise of five tasks that vary from race weekend to race weekend such as completing a fast sector, completing an entire lap with minimal fuel usage, performing a DRS test by activating DRS, chaining multiple consecutive corners together during the track acclimatisation practice programme and completing a lap with at least two different car setups within the same practice session.

More from The Guardian: «Sarah Evans, vice-president for communications at the X Prize Foundation, said that the foundation would bring together experts in the aviation and green technology sectors, including representatives from the Federal Aviation Authority's commercial aviation alternative fuel initiative, to hammer out the exact details of the competition, with the aim of announcing final plans in summer next year.

An auctioned cap or a tax with 100 % return of the proceeds to the people is the most practical policy for several reasons: (a) it would begin real carbon reductions quickly; (b) it would be an honest and transparent way of treating the American people; (c) it would attract the broadest attainable political coalition across party lines; (d) it would be administratively simple for both the government and the private sector (with the tax or auctioned permits collected at the first point of sale or import of the carbon - containing fuel); (e) it would be a non-regressive way of introducing the carbon price into the economy; and (f) it would avoid a fiasco such as the special interest feeding frenzy that surrounded the recently failed Boxer - Lieberman - Warner bill in Congress.

A major infrastructural change to our transportation sector is needed, and that change must come from the federal government through direct, targeted policy aimed at eliminating our use of hydrocarbon fuel in cars, trucks, and airplanes.

Instead Chairman Hochberg and the Bank continue to doggedly promote deadly and outdated fossil fuel technology at a time when the rest of the world is investing in the cutting edge, emerging clean energy sector.

At the same time, cleaner fuels produced by our country's world - class refining sector have helped make today's cars and trucks 99 percent cleaner for common pollutants than their 1970s forebears.

At a time when countries must be planning for a just transition and a managed decline of their fossil fuel sectors, Norway is doing the opposite: it is looking for ways to keep adding new reserves to the mix.

My own research shows that, even taking the OECD's analysis at face value, when we compare the «subsidies» given to green and brown sectors on a unit - for - unit basis, the renewable sector enjoys thirteen times the subsidy that the fossil fuel sector received.

This study looks at the impact of low - carbon transformations in power and road transport, sectors which together account for just 50 % of global fossil fuel demand and CO2 emissions approximately.

With the nation's energy sector turning decisively away from coal and nuclear energy, these companies are betting natural gas will be the dominant fuel for at least the next several decades.

Beijing is implementing ambitious renewable energy schemes at home and has announced plans to reshape its energy sector and reduce its use of coal — by far the most polluting fossil fuel.

With 1000 + articles worldwide, the report made a noteworthy contribution to a global public discussion on peak fossil fuel demand, including an endorsement from Nick Butler at the FT that «it deserves to be read by everyone working in the energy sector, by policy makers and perhaps most urgently by investors».

The evolving Kerry - Graham - Lieberman legislation has a cap - and - trade system at its heart for the electricity - generation sector, with other sectors to be phased in later (and it employs another market - based approach, a series of fuel taxes for the transportation sector linked to the market price for allowances).

We need to be developing an alliance with what remains of the unionized labour movement: at a minimum to support the development of training programs for fossil fuel sector workers, and more ambitiously to support the emergence of an electable political ideology that calls for the transition away from capitalism intent on endless growth in consumption.

Margie Tatro, director of fuel and water systems at Sandia National Laboratories, says, «I think natural gas is a transitioning fuel for the electricity sector until we can get a greater percentage of nuclear and renewables on the grid.»

In the past three years, the North American and European commercial and investment banking sector has engaged in fossil fuel financing practices that are deeply at odds with the global climate agreement reached at COP 21 last December.

«We now see that widespread use of PHEVs could expand the fuel options in our transportation sector and at the same time yield net benefits to our environment.»

In a report launched at the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue, they also say that increasing cumulative energy system investment by 30 % to 2050, favouring renewable energy and energy efficiency, could create over 11 million additional energy sector jobs, completely offsetting job losses in fossil fuels.

However, some sectors, such as transportation fuels, would be brought in at the start of the second compliance period, in 2015.

Projections of U.S. transportation energy use indicate that better vehicle efficiency and low - carbon fuels will not be sufficient to reach sectoral emissions reduction goals if travel demand grows at pre-recession rates, so managing demand will be a key ingredient of climate policy for the sector.

The report's authors point out that recent increases in emissions from the EU's coal - fired power sector are not due to more coal - fuelled facilities coming on stream, but rather because existing plants are running at full capacity.

Hastoe expound passive house mainly because it is highly effective at relieving fuel poverty, a huge problem in their sector.

Looking at the energy sector, we have one of the most carbon - intensive systems in the world, relying on fossil fuels for about 90 % of our energy use.

Its effects may not be fully realized for some time (or may be interrupted), but the signs point to a significant shift: the incorporation of forest and soil restoration into the climate and development strategies of most countries, the enshrinement of the land sector's key role in the international climate agreement, the first fruits of coordinated research efforts aimed at integrating climate goals into land management, and the availability of large - scale financial investments to fuel the climate - related benefits of better land management.

His research on socio - technical systems looks at sustainable transitions in the transport sector, and especially the transition from fossil fuel based cars to hybrid, electric or fuel cell vehicles.

Drawing on the paper Winning the Oil Endgame and the remarkable work of his colleagues at RMI, Lovins sketched a plan for transforming the way mobility takes place, the way vehicles are fueled, designed, and produced, and how profit can be the private sector's reward for getting America off oil by 2040.

Even fairly steep increases can be manageable so long as they're regular and predictable, particularly now that the share of economic activity occupied by the fossil fuels sector is at an historic low — provided the revenues are distributed or tax - shifted back to Americans.

The team looked at the impact of EU policies for renewable energy, landfill gas, nitrous oxide emissions from industry, combined heat - power generation (CHP), efficiency improvements in the built environment, common agricultural policies, F - gases, passenger cars, and efficiency improvements and fuel switch in industry and the energy sector.