Sentences with phrase «massive coal subsidies»

Turning their backs on the Paris Agreement, the ministers opted for a feeble renewable energy target, lax rules for ensuring that all EU countries contribute to the energy transition and massive coal subsidies in the EU's power market.

Tuesday, December 5, 2017: The Estonian EU Presidency has opened the door to allowing massive coal subsidies in the new EU power market rules, proposing changes eliminating the carbon intensity threshold for existing coal plants at the 11th hour of negotiations.

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The coal industry are clearly in the business of suppressing alternatives, pushing the clean coal fraud, garnering massive subsidies and snapping up free permits to pollute indefinitely.

One of the sillier claims made by wind - worshippers is that to focus on the massive pile of cash added to power bills and directed to these things, is to overlook what are said to be «colossal subsidies» paid to BIG COAL and BIG GAS.

Wherever coal is phased out and wind and solar power are promoted, massive electricity price rises occur because of the wind and solar subsidies and the high cost of providing backup power when the wind doesn't blow or the sun doesn't shine.Ontario, Canada is a good example.

(Given the massive subsidies that the coal industry has received over the years, Louie and Pearce suggest that companies should be required to finance a retraining fund — possibly patterned after the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, which mandates that companies pay into a federal fund for reclamation of abandoned mine land).

They require massive subsidy and back up from coal etc..