Sentences with phrase «huge subsidies from»

To add insult to injury, another amendment on «waste gases» means further handouts to the steel sector, another of the industries that has received huge subsidies from emissions trading.

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Ending the huge subsidies to both the mining and housing industry is favoured according to opinion polls about 75 % of the population, but the word from politicians is «don't mention the subsides».

Middlebury's biomass gasification plant is the product of an administration comfortable with multi-million-dollar projects, made possible by a sizeable and wealthy circle of alumni, a massive endowment, huge tuition costs, and subsidies from our colossal nation - state.

He's right but as Fiona Bruce argued in the debate the light needs to be shone brightly on the huge subsidy that the union movement receives from local and national taxpayers.

Olawore said the immediate payment of the accumulated subsidy claims would salvage the banks from total collapse over the huge debts owed them by marketers, and avert the scarcity of petroleum products in the country.

However, and unfortunately, that's not as simple as is being made out as buyers will be required to subscribe to data services from EMOBILE to avail of the huge subsidy.

While smartphone customers are far more lucrative, smartphones themselves represent a huge step - up in cost (vs. your classic candy bar / clamshell phone, for example)-- which requires far larger subsidies from the wireless providers.

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.

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.

I think sky onions could work in Germany, where they like giving huge subsidies, and they pay consumers to use the electricity surges from the gazillion wind mills they are building.

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.

Turn around and sell fictive name plate energy credits to real energy producers, before they are allowed to market their actual electricity, and make huge amounts of money from installations that were paid for by public subsidies in the first place.

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.

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.

Yet we keep throwing huge subsidies at corn; The Environmental Working Group pegs U.S. corn subsidies from 1995 to 2009 at us $ 73 billion, or about $ 5 billion per year.

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.

In the States, there are huge government subsidies that are necessary to make the projects viable... not my words... words from the power companies themselves.