Sentences with phrase «hidden subsidies for»

The government's grandly entitled Electricity Market Reform turned out to be a mechanism to deliver a hidden subsidy for nuclear which they had given repeated assurances would never be provided from public funds,

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While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

For decades, many nations have provided substantial, sometimes hidden, subsidies to artificial feeding, while not funding breastfeeding support.

«The government must be up front about the support it is giving to nuclear and not hide subsidies in a one - size - fits - all design for long - term energy contracts,» Mr Yeo added.

Many of the fraudsters hid the presence and income of a family member to allow them to be eligible for subsidies.

He added: «The real question for the forthcoming energy review is, where will Blair hide his nuclear subsidy?»

Stop hiding behind the façade that an arms trade treaty will make a difference; stop promoting arms sales to dictators; and transfer the support and subsidy enjoyed by the military companies to growing industries, such as the quest for renewable energy.

The reauthorization of the Higher Education Act presents an excellent opportunity for policymakers to create a clearer and fairer system with fewer hidden subsidies and perverse incentives.

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The question of hidden, and not so hidden, subsidies for oil, as well as coal, keeps coming up in environmental debates.

After all, governments currently spend about half a trillion dollars a year on subsidies, mostly hidden and economically unsound, for fossil fuels... yes, our taxes are paying industries to burn coal and oil.

Now that it's become impossible for them to hide the obvious relationship between intermittent wind and solar and rocketing power prices and grid instability, the pleading to maintain the subsidies that sustain them, -LSB-...]

Lovins said the reason for the decline is cost: on an even playing field with no hidden subsidies, nuclear is simply more expensive than other options, especially co-generation.

Bart R laments that this is nothing compared to alleged subsidies for oil companies, laughingly referring to the pack of politically - motivated lies, distortions and information - hiding by the likes of Mann, as «knowledge».

There is room for improvement in the Parliament's position, both in ensuring priority access for all new renewables, and in fully eliminating all capacity mechanisms that function as hidden fossil fuel subsidies.

The author apparently assumes naively that the huge federal subsidies for wind facilities (which merely shift cost from «wind farm» owners to taxpayers and electric customers and hide them in tax bills and monthly electric bills) are not a part of the true costs.

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