Sentences with phrase «fuelled life of government»

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It showed over half of those living in rural areas disapproved of the government's attitude to fuel, transport and rural services, and planning.

Without urgent and ambitious government intervention, NEA estimates that in the next 15 years the cumulative effect will be 125,000 premature deaths as a result of living in cold homes; # 950m of fuel debt which will not be spent in local economies; and # 22 billion spent by the NHS in treating cold - related conditions.

The most recent official Government statistics, announced by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) in June 2011, put the total number of households living in fuel poverty in the UK at 5.5 million in 2009 a rise of around 1 million when compared to 2008 and representing approximately 21 % of all UK households.

«Although well intentioned, the last Government received very little for their money in terms of social mobility and a reduction in the gap between the rich and the poor, and they have further fuelled a culture of benefit dependency in which children grow up seeing parents and grandparents who have never worked as their role models, in which people are better off living apart than living together, and in which there is no incentive to work because of the fear of becoming worse off.

It needlessly fuels enervating sectarian debates that are by and large absent from the lives of most British people, who - as polls show - do not want religions or religious identities to be actively prioritised by their elected government.»

The most recent official Government statistics, based on 2010 data, put the total number of households living fuel poverty in England at 3.5 million.

«I am very pleased that under this Government fuel duty has not been increased at all in the last 5 years, recognising the impact fuel costs can have on the cost of living and business costs - particularly in rural areas where we are reliant on our vehicles.

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.

The half - lives (the period in which radioactivity halves) of these atoms range up to tens of thousands of years, a feature that led U.S. government regulators to require that the planned high - level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada isolate spent fuel for over 10,000 years.

While they lectured us about forthcoming government standards for the use of sustainable clean - air fuels in every aspect of our lives (notably in California), the real question has been the availability of an affordable automotive technology to use the fuel.

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And because it is nicer to paint to music, many of these actions were accompanied by live concerts and other activities to denounce the lack of climate action coming from the government as well as their connivance with the fossil fuel industry.

«No one seems upset that in modern Britain, old people are freezing to death as hidden taxes make fuel more expensive «The government's chief scientific officer, Sir David King, later declared that climate change was «more serious even than the threat of terrorism» in terms of the number of lives that could be lost.

The call for tenders specifies the total amount of capacity required, the time lines for capacity establishment, the fuel options as defined in the Government's power plant establishment plan, the type of plant (base load, load following, peaking capacity), possible transmission constraints that have to be taken into account, and in certain cases a price cap, i.e. maximum average price that the new plant can be expected to earn throughout its economic life.

This Government, in its opposition to renewable energy and support for fossil fuels, has made itself the enemy of the future generations who will have to live with climate change.

For more information, please contact Corinna Gilfillan at Global Witness: [phone], or [phone] Ian Smillie at Partnership Africa Canada: 1 [phone], or Susan Isaac at 1 [phone] ActionAid - U.K. www.actionaid.org Amnesty International - Canada Amnesty International - London Fatal Transactions - Netherlands www.niza.nl/fataltransactions Global Witness - U.K. www.globalwitness.org Network Movement for Justice and Development - Sierra Leone One Sky - Canadian Institute of Sustainable Living - Canada Oxfam International Partnership Africa Canada www.pacweb.org Physicians for Human Rights - U.S.A. World Vision U.S.A. Editor Notes: The KPCS, launched in January 2003, requires governments and the diamond industry to implement import / export control regimes in rough diamonds to prevent conflict diamonds from fuelling war and human rights abuse.

That said, if there's truly no risk of new fossil fuel projects being developed where you live, perhaps you're better off focusing your efforts on demanding 100 % renewable energy for all, ensuring local government or other institutions are divested from fossil fuels, or pursuing some of the other options outlined on this website.

Civil society, governments and business communities must accept that if we do not change the way we live on this planet and do something to reduce drastically the carbon footprint and increase dramatically access to renewable energy now through tougher regulations and an overhaul of the fossil fuel industry (stop subsidizing the polluters and begin funding the human solutions to climate change), the planet will continue to change in devastating ways.

A second horrific error has been made by environmental organizations, many developed country governments, and the United Nations by promoting reductions in the emissions of CO2 from burning fossil fuels to obtain energy that has made possible the high standard of living now found in developed countries.

The US government, they said, has knowingly continued to worsen the effects of climate change through the burning of fossil fuels, and thus has risked «harm to human life, liberty and property.»

Our opportunity here isn't only about protecting the ocean waters of America, marine life, a favorite surf break, jobs or a given beach community; it's about demanding that our government utilize the best available science and data and listen to the massive outpouring of public opposition to destructive offshore oil and gas development, to shift the tides of energy development instead away from fossil fuels and toward renewables; it's about holding our President and federal agencies accountable for decisions they make about the management of the ocean; it's about protecting the ocean and every coastline from the atrocity and injustice of offshore drilling and exploration; it's about protecting clean water, air and beaches now and for the future; it's about protecting one another, and the Earth.

By participating fully at this stage, our opposition front will have standing for solid recourse should the Trump Administration's proposed program still contain waters off from coasts, where science and data concur with the massive outpouring of Americans who are rising up from every walk of life to demand government accountability in moving away from fossil fuels and toward a renewable energy future.

What vested interest could the government have in persuading people that the fossil fuels that have made our way of life possible now threaten our future and our children's future?

FoE knew what it was asking for: for policies that would make life difficult for people, and it knew that the government wasn't capable of, or interested in, solving the problem of fuel poverty in any meaningful way.

«I spend a quarter of my fuel, I have a better, healthier, more comfortable living environment, and we don't add to government fines for failing to meet our carbon reduction targets.

Oh and it will also subject every part of our lives to government control and regulation because the carbon cycle is central to life, to agriculture and forestry and the burning of fossil fuels drives our industrial economy and our standard of living.

The recent drop in Bitcoin price, fueled by a short - lived positive performance of Chinese yuan, the government decided to review the cryptocurrency platforms.