Sentences with phrase «fuel subsidy huge»

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He said the governors» position was informed by the huge amount of money being spent by the NNPC as payment for fuel subsidy annually.

For instance, Senator Dino Melayo had on several occasions in the floor of the national Assembly exposed explosive financial infractions committed by officials of the current presidency including the huge bills that Nigerian National Petroleum Corporations spends illegally as subsidy for importation of fuel and the illegal employment of children of favoured politically connected persons into plumb jobs in the central bank of Nigeria.

They support the phasing out of fossil fuel subsidies in the «medium term» and pledge a huge boost to renewable energy, including through a new $ 2 billion «Low Carbon Economy Trust» to fund clean energy projects.

The elimination of fossil fuel subsidies was one, as was the expansion of social protection programmes, a huge expansion of the global network of protected marine areas, etc..

Even in Germany, home of the Energiewende (energy transformation) which has poured huge subsidies into wind and solar power, 38 % of non-fossil fuel consumption comes from the stuff.

Trillions are spent on war where oil is the key political factor, hundreds of billions on subsidies for rich companies that reap huge short - term profits, both in fossil fuels and pseudo-green technologies like corn ethanol and biodiesel.

Subsidies to fossil fuel industries are a huge problem, and have stood in the way of alternate energy development for a long time.

Transitioning farms and farmers is a huge challenge, especially when farmers in the US get $ 1 Bn in fuel subsidies, and more in other subsidies annually.

The upfront costs will be higher, and will need incentives / subsidies / mandates / deadlines, but the long term cost picture includes a trillion a year that we don't spend on fossil fuels, a huge savings.

Certainly once it has obtained a critical mass, renewables should not need any help but expecting renewables to expand without assistance while fossil fuels receive huge subsidies is ridiculous.

Huge money flows into politics are now spent by fossil fuel magnates to keep profits high through subsidy flows and unpriced carbon.

Redirection of Fossil Fuel Subsidies Towards Women Holds Huge Opportunity for Sustainable Development

Lomborg's arguments often have a veneer of credibility, but scratch the surface, and you witness a sleight of hand, where climate projections are lowballed; climate change impacts, damages, and costs are underestimated; and the huge current subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, both direct and indirect, are ignored.

Today, Oil Change International released a comprehensive report on fossil fuel exploration and production subsidies in the U.S. — Cashing in on All of the Above: U.S. Fossil Fuel Production Subsidies under Obama — which demonstrates that at a time when we need urgent action on climate change more than ever, the U.S. government is channeling huge and growing amounts of money to increasing discovery and production of oil, gas, and cfuel exploration and production subsidies in the U.S. — Cashing in on All of the Above: U.S. Fossil Fuel Production Subsidies under Obama — which demonstrates that at a time when we need urgent action on climate change more than ever, the U.S. government is channeling huge and growing amounts of money to increasing discovery and production of oil, gas, subsidies in the U.S. — Cashing in on All of the Above: U.S. Fossil Fuel Production Subsidies under Obama — which demonstrates that at a time when we need urgent action on climate change more than ever, the U.S. government is channeling huge and growing amounts of money to increasing discovery and production of oil, gas, and cFuel Production Subsidies under Obama — which demonstrates that at a time when we need urgent action on climate change more than ever, the U.S. government is channeling huge and growing amounts of money to increasing discovery and production of oil, gas, Subsidies under Obama — which demonstrates that at a time when we need urgent action on climate change more than ever, the U.S. government is channeling huge and growing amounts of money to increasing discovery and production of oil, gas, and coal.

LONDON, 31 July, 2017 — Health campaigners say the energy policies of the world's richest countries are inflicting a double burden on their citizens, not only using their taxes to pay fossil fuel subsidies, but also loading huge health costs on them.

• Size of the current and historical R&D budget, both public and private, is not the only criterion — huge amounts have been spent on solar panel (photovoltaic, or PV) R&D over the decades, and PVs still are not able to compete with fossil fuels or nuclear power without huge subsidies.

The world's biggest and most profitable fossil fuel companies are receiving huge and rising subsidies from US taxpayers, a practice slammed as absurd by a presidential candidate given the threat of climate change.

The money going into politics from the oil, gas and coal industries gets huge returns in the form of subsidies back to fossil fuels.

Clearly all subsidies of whatever type must be removed from fossil fuel and transferred to renewables and energy storage and a huge program must be put in place to re-train people put out of work in the fossil fuel industry to take their place in the renewable energy field.

«Maybe,» the organizers write, «we can finally get rid of the huge subsidies to our fossil fuel industries.

Regardless, dropping ethanol subsidies is probably a smart idea — corn ethanol is a huge water and energy suck, some speculate its production has led to food shortages, and is generally far from the fuel of the future it was once hoped to be.

At last week's Conservative Party Conference, the new Energy Minister, John Hayes, promised that «the high - flown theories of bourgeois Left - wing academics will not override the interests of ordinary people who need fuel for heat, light and transport — energy policies, you might say, for the many, not the few» — a pledge that has triggered fury from green activists, who fear reductions in the huge subsidies given to wind - turbine firms.

Those shale gas cheerleaders also fail to take into account the huge fossil fuel subsidy their favoured hard to get at hydrocarbon gets.

Health campaigners say the energy policies of the world's richest countries are inflicting a double burden on their citizens, not only using their taxes to pay fossil fuel subsidies, but also loading huge health costs on them.