Sentences with phrase «in huge subsidies»

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.

Governments threw taxpayers money at it willy nilly in huge subsidies.

Not exact matches

Harper says the Liberals passed up on a chance to renew the softwood lumber agreement in exchange for supporting the Trans - Pacific Partnership, and he says their subsidies to Bombardier set the stage for huge tariffs today.

To New Jersey folks, that's a huge subsidy - the state collects around $ 2.5 billion in corporate taxes each year, so they're offering Amazon about 14 percent of the taxes paid by other businesses for the next two decades.

The only reason they're selling now is the huge subsidies... when they pull back we'll see a consolidation in the industry and a market cap of 10 % EV.

Even though huge numbers of us are exhausted and isolated as our mothers never were, feminists, corporate leaders, and the child - care lobby are effectively forcing us to remain in the workforce against our deepest wishes, our lives made just bearable by scant leave and scanter subsidy.

Strictly speaking, the liberalization of the agricultural sector in the North should have resulted in an end to the huge subsidies paid to the European farmers.

And if every mother, like mothers in other advanced democracies, could have the security — emotional and financial — that her child could attend a program like my son's with government subsidies, I think there would be huge societal as well as personal benefits for women and women's lives.

«In addition, a sensible interest rate should be introduced on student loans, set at the current government cost of borrowing, to rectify the huge subsidy that the government currently pays.»

Schneiderman said he successfully protected cost - sharing subsidies under the Affordable Care Act as well, which if had been eliminated would have resulted in huge cuts in healthcare funding to the state.

«If you take the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU)[report], they said 2017 and onward is going to be a period of prosperity for Ghana and that is because of the foundation that we have laid, it's because of the work that we have done, we've eliminated a lot of the deficits that were created by huge subsidies on utility tariffs, we eliminated a lot of the subsidies that created huge deficits on the cost of petroleum products, today as I speak, Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) is running, and producing petroleum products for Ghana, we have enough stock of LPG, our tanks and strategic reserves for petroleum products are all full, and, so, we have ships standing offshore Ghana with petroleum products, but there is no space to offload those products, and, so, we've done a good job in stabilising various sectors of the economy.

Cuomo, in an animated speech, said fast food chains make huge profits while relying on taxpayer subsidies, like food stamps, to make up for the low pay they give their workers.

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.

A clause in the federal government's subsidy of Starrett City may jeopardize the huge development's affordability if a proposed sale is approved as is, two New York politicians warn.

But in the last week, new revelations have raised huge questions about the accountability and basic integrity of the enormous economic development programs run by SUNY Poly president Alain Kaloyeros, and the SUNY Research Foundation's role and responsibility in managing large state subsidy projects.

The bill was also passed quickly because it has huge welfare spending in it in the form of medicaid expansions and premium subsidies, which once implemented would be nearly impossible to repeal.

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.

For instance, Senator Dino Melayo had on several occasions in the floor of the national Assembly exposed explosive financial infractions committed by officials of the current presidency including the huge bills that Nigerian National Petroleum Corporations spends illegally as subsidy for importation of fuel and the illegal employment of children of favoured politically connected persons into plumb jobs in the central bank of Nigeria.

They support the phasing out of fossil fuel subsidies in the «medium term» and pledge a huge boost to renewable energy, including through a new $ 2 billion «Low Carbon Economy Trust» to fund clean energy projects.

It's even more egregious in agriculture and food, you know, where almost all of the world's, the country's cropland is now diverted to growing corn and soybeans — not because there's this unbelievable demand to eat corn and soybeans but because there's a federal subsidy for growing them, a subsidy basically written into the law by a few huge corn and soybean consuming companies, Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, whatever, who control the senators of the corn states, you know, and have enough power to enact [egregious] policy [into] law.

Provide at least a cost - of - living increase to the Basic Subsidy and Special Education line items, which will help to mitigate the seriously negative effects of last summer's huge cut in state funding for school districts.

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.

Re # 26 & # 28 - true, wind is not comparable in price or with the delivered capacity of fossil power generation - if it was, then wind would not need the huge subsidies it gets here in Europe - including the UK (about  # 1bn / annum)- which is the best place in NW Europe for wind power!.

Trillions are spent on war where oil is the key political factor, hundreds of billions on subsidies for rich companies that reap huge short - term profits, both in fossil fuels and pseudo-green technologies like corn ethanol and biodiesel.

Subsidies to fossil fuel industries are a huge problem, and have stood in the way of alternate energy development for a long time.

Transitioning farms and farmers is a huge challenge, especially when farmers in the US get $ 1 Bn in fuel subsidies, and more in other subsidies annually.

Even in Western Europe, which has a population with a similar demographic and economic profile to the US, much shorter travel distances between population centers, and much higher overall population density, the high speed intercity trains everyone loves to mention (TGV, ICE, Thalys, etc.) require huge, ongoing, and permanent government subsidies to operate.

In fact, the companies that have received huge subsidies have been «green» energy scams like Solyndra, First Solar and Fisker, who had political connections with the White House and allow billions of taxpayer money to be wasted through crony capitalism.

Some critics say, «we should level the playing field and get rid of all subsidies,» but they know that in that case, the many decades of subsidies to non-renewables would give those sources a huge market advantage.

I'm not adverse to what you've shared regarding the subsidies for huge wind and solar farms as stand alone, but was trying to look at it in a different way.

Even if they never sell enough cars to make an honest profit, there's already been a huge profit to GM in the form of massive federal subsidies and of course, the massive bailout of GM itself back in 2008... Why not throw money at the electric car boondoggle?

The EF, in turn, is used by EPA to justify all its climate regulations, including its ultra-expensive so - called «Clean Power Plan» (CPP -RCB- requiring that many coal plants be replaced with wind and solar - generated electric power at huge expense to ratepayers in terms of outlays and reductions in reliability as well as to taxpayers for government subsidies.

The huge tracts of land required for solar thermal are currently being granted tax - free status, a huge subsidy that absolutely no one is including in the costs.

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.

Today, Oil Change International released a comprehensive report on fossil fuel exploration and production subsidies in the U.S. — Cashing in on All of the Above: U.S. Fossil Fuel Production Subsidies under Obama — which demonstrates that at a time when we need urgent action on climate change more than ever, the U.S. government is channeling huge and growing amounts of money to increasing discovery and production of oil, gas, subsidies in the U.S. — Cashing in on All of the Above: U.S. Fossil Fuel Production Subsidies under Obama — which demonstrates that at a time when we need urgent action on climate change more than ever, the U.S. government is channeling huge and growing amounts of money to increasing discovery and production of oil, gas, Subsidies under Obama — which demonstrates that at a time when we need urgent action on climate change more than ever, the U.S. government is channeling huge and growing amounts of money to increasing discovery and production of oil, gas, and coal.

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 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.

But how effective will these companies be in collecting e-waste in outlying rural areas, where electronic appliance purchase subsidies under the economic stimulus package are creating a huge turnover (and pile up) of old television sets are other electronic products.

Governments will be forced to reduce coal subsidies and as they do the decline in the industry is likely to become a catastrophic collapse with huge financial losses for those who have invested in coal.

Various subsidies have had to be abandoned in Europe and huge companies that had promising futures have gone into renewable retreat.

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.

Given the entrenched political power of the nuclear industry — as reflected in the Obama administration's continued support for huge subsidies for new nuclear, Fukushima be damned — it is possible that one or two new nuclear power plants may be built in the USA in the next decade or so.

My first thought was about The High Cost of Free Parking, a great book by Donald Shoup showing that there is no such thing as free parking, just a huge public subsidy, as much as $ 374 billion in 2002.

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.