Sentences with phrase «funded by the oil»

The issue with their structure at present is the lack of enormous commercial deals to ensure the money generated is enough to compete with rivals funded by oil money.

A two - year study of fracking wells in Los Angeles, conducted by consultants Cardno Entrix and funded by the oil industry, monitored 15 environmental factors before and after fracking, including groundwater chemistry, vibration at the surface and at depth, and methane release.

In fact, a 2008 energy blueprint released by House Republicans, the «American Energy Act,» included the concept of a trust fund for advanced technology research funded by oil and gas royalties.

His ethanol research is not funded by the oil industry.

His ethanol research is not funded by the oil or refining industries *.)

Patzek runs the UC Oil Consortium, which does research on oil and is funded by oil companies.

And no, he's not funded by the oil industry or big business — the Toronto native is unpaid, living off his savings as he tends to his blog www.climateaudit.org.

They have enlisted the help of conservative lobby groups funded by the oil industry to attack US government scientists if they produce work seen as accepting too readily that pollution is an issue.

It was introduced in two separate committees, or «task forces,» by IER, an energy group funded by the oil magnate Koch brothers, as well as Ebell's CEI and conservative group Americans for Prosperity.

She was told that a conservative organization, funded by an oil company, was offering scientists $ 10,000 to write articles that attacked the IPCC report and the models that had been used to produce its gloomy predictions.

From AllGov.com with lots of spin (h / t to reader Dennis) Judge Orders NASA to Release Climate Change - Related Documents A climate change denial group once funded by oil giant ExxonMobil (2012 revenues: $ 453.123 billion) won a legal victory last week over NASA when a federal judge ordered the space agency to turn over more documents related...

But their popularity has attracted the attention of global warming sceptics funded by the oil industry, who have started to attack polar bear science.

b) PR funded by fossil fuel industry: Friends of Science projects are largely funded by oil and gas companies, along with related foundations and individuals, via various conduits, chiefly the Calgary Foundation.

Except, of course, when the science in question is funded by the oil industry.

It is no surprise that AFP, funded by oil billionaire David Koch, derides sustainable technologies that would cut energy consumption (and Koch Industries» profit).

It's known as the Kochtopus — the extensive network of think tanks, institutes, university departments, political funding arms and «grassroots» activist groups funded by oil billionaires Charles and David Koch.

Blaming skeptical views on funding by the oil companies also sounds disingenuous.

David Suzuki, whose Foundation is funded by oil companies and chaired by James Hoggan (whose PR company has alternate energy companies for clients), says:

So CAGW + greenhouse gasses is an invention funded by the oil / nuclear interests who were plotting against coal is it?

Speaking at a fringe, anti-science event in Copenhagen sponsored by Americans for Prosperity (founded and funded by the oil company Koch Industries), Monckton found himself being upstaged by young climate protestors.

If you think that financial incentive is a problem with climate scientists do you think that skeptical climate science is funded by oil and mining interests?

Remember the evidence that a warmist wrote the briefing, a warmist who assumes there is a conspiracy funded by oil interests to spread disinformation — not sure if that is projection or they are just not imaginative to understand that other people operate differently to their own peer group.

The rest are just scientists that are funded by oil producing companies.

'' Paid advertising by oil and coal industry companies, as well as by front groups funded by the oil and coal industries; and

With the exact same purpose and goals, and most of the same scientific allies and members as the Friends of Science, the NRSP is viewed by many as a reincarnation of the FoS, after the FoS was «outed» by The Globe and Mail newspaper in August 2006 as being partly funded by the oil and gas industry.

They also receive $ 250,000 per year from the Scaife oil fortune, and we see almost half of the Institute is funded by oil money.

I would expect to hear smears claiming that «This person is funded by an Oil company», or «This response is like Creationism».

I must disagree with your assertion: «To say that deniers are funded by oil companies trying to derail energy policy again is only an issue that arises if there is scientific dogma that is tied to policy.

To say that deniers are funded by oil companies trying to derail energy policy again is only an issue that arises if there is scientific dogma that is tied to policy.

Pat Michaels works for works for an «Institute» funded by the oil industry.

The successful exploitation of those weaknesses by conservative political leaders and think tanks that are funded by oil companies has created a virtual standstill in developing cost - saving, alternative energy policies.

Many who criticise the science that claims to show that human activity is causing global warming are accused of being funded by the oil industry and free market think tanks who oppose the sort of government regulation that it seems will be necessary to implement large reductions in greenhouse gases, especially CO2

Given all that I've dug up on the origins of the «industry - corrupted skeptic climate scientists» accusation, I'd call it a can't - lose wager if you bet that the «e-mail message circulated at a U.S. climate research lab» which Myanna Lahsen referred to owes its «funded by the oil and coal industry» accusation against skeptic climate scientists to Gelbspan / Ozone Action.

Suggestions of conspiracy is also occasionally found among IPCC affiliated or sympathetic scientists, as in the following e-mail message circulated at a U.S. climate research lab: «Ironically, the people who are conducting these attacks and accuse the scientific community of belonging to some sort of «global conspiracy» are themselves part of a conspiracy, funded by the oil and coal industry, to discredit any scientist or piece of evidence that supports the hypothesis that humans are causing a detectable change to global climate.»

Suggest to the CCC's current Chair, Lord John Deben, that alternative understandings of climate policy exist, and he will accuse you of being funded by oil companies to propagate misleading information.

The Tea Party's ascent has been bolstered by Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a political action committee founded and funded by oil industry interests, including billionaire oil executives Charles and David Koch.

Its common sense to be suspicious really if dodgy groups funded by oil, tobaco companies and mainstream media (who can't exactly be trusted) are trying to take the lead.

Not exact matches

An Environmental Defense Fund - commissioned study by consultancy ICF International found that Canada's oil and gas industry could achieve a 45 per cent methane emission reduction at an average cost of $ 2.76 per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent.

A new survey by the Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) reported that the number of fund managers that expect the value of oil firms to drop in the next few years has doubled.

«Cenovus is impressed by General Fusion's innovative, pragmatic approach,» executive vice-president Judy Fairburn explained in a release announcing the $ 3.8 - million investment from the oil company's Environmental Opportunity Fund.

The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.

And yes, there is a fantastic well - oiled network of smart VCs and investors here, but the vast majority of start - ups (even in Silicon Valley) are still funded by second mortgages and family friends.

LONDON, April 23 (Reuters)- Hedge fund managers have never seemed so convinced that oil prices are set to rise rather than fall in the near term, according to the latest positioning data published by regulators and exchanges.

«Oil market «locked», almost all funds expect further price rises», Reuters, March 27 (Editing by Edmund Blair)

To pay for that, the bill would cut a public health fund in President Barack Obama's health care law, reduce some payments made by Medicaid and Medicare and sell oil held in the government's strategic petroleum reserve.

By April 24, funds held a record net long position in U.S. gasoline equivalent to 111 million barrels as well as a net position in heating oil equivalent to 69 million barrels (https://tmsnrt.rs/2JEyL9A).

Oil market locked, almost all funds expect further price rises, Reuters, March 27 (Editing by Mark Heinrich)

In contrast, fund managers have been adding net long positions in gasoline and heating oil, after cutting them in February and March, according to position records published by regulators and exchanges.

The Russian economy has been hit by low oil prices and western sanctions and is set to contract 0.6 percent this year, according to data from the International Monetary Fund.

Agreement has been reached with Coogee Resources (Ashmore Cartier) Pty Ltd, which gives Coogee the right to earn a 20 % interest in exploration permit AC / P 32 by funding 27.5 % of the upcoming Magnolia oil exploration well.