Sentences with phrase «fuelling an export industry»

Coffee is the world's most popular beverage, with about 500 billion cups drunk every year, fuelling an export industry worth $ 15 billion.

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Fuelled by a low peso and cheap labour costs, Mexico's booming manufacturing industry has already overtaken Canada's in terms of the dollar value of exports to the U.S. Indeed, Canada is contending with more than just low oil prices.

It was Canadian Business that, back in 2007, brought attention to California's low - carbon fuel standard that effectively blocks oilsands exports to that state — despite the fact that California's own exempted heavy - oil industry has been shown to be more carbon intensive than the oilsands average.

that, back in 2007, brought attention to California's low - carbon fuel standard that effectively blocks oilsands exports to that state — despite the fact that California's own exempted heavy - oil industry has been shown to be more carbon intensive than the oilsands average.

With Queensland on the cusp of joining the world's elite band of LNG exporters, federal Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane has voiced confidence that the construction cost pressures that could impede further growth of exports are on the wane, but insisted gas would also remain an important fuel for domestic users.

You know when you go down that road of clean tech, you not only have cleaner air, you not only have a new industry — an export industry that can't be outsourced so easily in global demand — you not only become more economically stable, because you're not shipping all those dollars abroad; you are not only able to become more secure because your source of fuel isn't dependent on the whims of some petro - dictator.

Globally, as an export category, tourism ranks fourth after fuels, chemicals, and the automotive industry, yet its economic and development relevance is often overlooked by the media.

It's another stiff blow to the Northwest's besieged fossil fuel industry; a number of other proposed fossil fuel export projects in the region have been killed in recent years.

A recent report from the Brookings Institution concluded that «the domestic clean economy already employs some 2.7 million workers,» which is more than the fossil fuel industry.9 In addition, it noted that newer «cleantech» segments produced «explosive job gains» that «outperformed the nation during the recession» and that the clean economy is «manufacturing and export intensive.»

The Australian government's Energy White Paper [x] plans to facilitate the expansion of fossil fuel mining and export industries at a time when they must be phased out as fast as possible.

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.

Of course we need to stop new fossil projects of all types for climate reasons regardless of what it might cost us, but it seems we are not as dependent on fossil fuel exports for our prosperity anywhere as much as the fossil fuel industry tends to imply.

Offshore wind energy is an industry that creates jobs, reduces fossil fuel imports and one in which Europe is a world leader with huge export opportunities.

A report published in 2014 found that the turnover between public servants and fossil fuel industry workers facilitated four permits for liquified natural gas export facilities.

In July, BNEF projected that «electric cars will outsell fossil fuel - powered vehicles within two decades as battery prices plunge, turning the global auto industry upside down and signaling economic turmoil for oil - exporting countries.»

... Oil industry proponents have said that the escalating requirements of ethanol to be added would force them to sell fuel blends exceeding 10 percent or export gasoline, a phenomenon known as «hitting the blend wall.»

Yet on the ground, significant momentum has been building to tackle fossil fuels at their source, by trying to block new production and exports, and change the economics of the industry.

The coal industry's efforts to export huge amounts of taxpayer - owned coal from Montana and Wyoming to Asia has generated unprecedented opposition in the Pacific Northwest - tens of thousands of people have rallied, attended public hearings, and called on their elected officials to oppose coal export terminals that would disrupt and pollute communities and pose one of the biggest threats to the climate of any fossil fuel project in the world.

The export tax structure is the key to making the industry profitable and able to compete with fossil fuels, Renova SA Director Diego Mejuto said recently.