Sentences with phrase «of oil industry money»

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«They have money and are fed up with [the cycle of] being hired and rehired in the oil industry, so now many are looking to buy a business.»

«I don't worry at all about whether somebody comes from the oil industry or if they have a lot of money,» Buffett said.

You made a lot of money in your CIBC days predicting where the price of oil was going, and you would heap praise on the industry.

It requires a lot of money to become an investor in the oil and gas industry that is why as an accredited investor, you should consider investing here if you don't have an investment portfolio in this industry.

Even if you have no money to venture into the oil and gas business, you can still profit from the industry by offering brokerage services between buyers and sellers of petroleum products.

Rep. Pete Sessions (R - TX)-- the chairman of the Republican committee tasked with raising funds to elect more House Republicans — told us that he saw no conflict with his members raising money from the oil industry just about an hour before BP was scheduled to appear for questioning.»

Given all the oil and gas industry campaign money pouring into the Capitol, opponents of this amendment have their work cut out for them, but it's nevertheless important to call your House lawmakers about it.

«The national Democratic Party, from Obama on down, [are pro-hydrofracking] and [Cuomo's] brand is not being a big environmentalist... he's a fiscal conservative and a social liberal... plus there's a lot of money coming from the oil and gas industry to his campaign,» said Hawkins, suggesting that this money will fund his presidential bid.

«People think of the Earth as having a certain amount of oil the way you might have a certain amount of money in your bank account,» adds Daniel Yergin, chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, who wrote the The Prize, a history of oil, and The Commanding Heights, a study of market forces and the energy industry.

Some of the money will come from an increased share of offshore oil and gas royalties, but many coastal advocates say the industry should pay a larger share.

Finance, Oil and Gas, IT and FMCG are some of the fastest growing industries in the Indian market in which the money of the investors is invested.

«We saved a lot of money before I got sick in 2010,» says Jade, who after working a couple of part - time contracts in the oil industry over the last three years, fully retired in the spring.

And part of what happened in the U.S. auto industry was because oil appeared relatively cheap, the U.S. auto industry decided we're just going to make our money on SUVs, and we're not going to worry about fuel efficiency.

this infographic, (an update of a 2012 version which featured only a «90 % consensus» in the left - side third box, basically identical to another 2012 variant) which portrays skeptics as crooks who've been bribed to lie by oil industry money.

In reality, the lack of interest stems chiefly from the fact that this denial - a-palooza fest is dripping with oil money and represents a blatant industry effort to greenwash oil and coal while simultaneously attacking the credibility of climate scientists.

The three ALEC members received a total of $ 9,514 from the oil and gas industry in the 2008 and 2010 election cycles in campaign money combined, and the four of them together received $ 13,814 in campaign cash from the oil and gas industry, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics» FollowTheMoneymoney combined, and the four of them together received $ 13,814 in campaign cash from the oil and gas industry, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics» FollowTheMoneyMoney in State Politics» FollowTheMoney.org.

No, smart money is betting on the insurance industry's new paradigm shift: For too long Big Oil and other climate - science deniers have been shifting the burden of their short - term profit strategies to the public.

A late influx of campaign money from oil and utilities industries sought to torpedo the measure.

On the whole, sponsors and co-sponsors from the six states in which the ALEC bill was proposed were recipients of $ 44,409 in campaign money from the oil and gas industry, a miniscule down payment for some of the most lucrative corporations known in the history of mankind.

But in a case study of the power of fossil fuel interests to shape government policy, the industry's money and alliances with conservative think tanks and advocacy groups transformed the committee's membership and supported the rise of Smith, son of an old oil and ranching family in South Texas.

Break the cycle of dirty energy money, particularly by elected officials at all levels of government pledging to refuse campaign donations and other forms of support from the oil, gas, and coal industries.

As to the source of the donations,» [The money's] not exclusively from the oil and gas industry,» Cooper told Montgomery.

I found that the amount of money available in the fossil fuel - related industries (coal, oil, and natural gas production, transportation, and immediate consumption) exceeded the money available for academic and government - funded climate research by approximately 2,500 times.

Sixth, they say Heartland is «funded by polluting industries», by which I assume they mean a bit of money Mobil Oil gave Heartland some years ago... but since Mobil also gives money to Stanford University, many times the money that Mobil gave to Heartland, is Stanford University now suspect because it is «funded by polluting industries»?

The group just hired Paul Bailey, a former operative for the oil and electric power industries, as its top lobbyist and will soon fill three more upper - level positions, bolstering a fleet of fixers who spent more money than anyone else — nearly $ 10 million last year — lobbying on climate change - related legislation, according to the Center for Public Integrity.

Otherwise, your debate is simply stoking the coffers of the groups who make their money from the oil industry.

To give a quick snapshot of this amazing oil - sponsored smackdown of King Coal, here are some money quotes from each of the different energy industries in the order they appear (emphasis added):

And, except for two congressmen who didn't take any energy industry money, the signatories received sizable contributions from a number of other corporations that compete with wind, including coal barons Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources; and oil and gas giants Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy.

ExxonMobil is sabotaging the work of more than 2,000 scientists from 100 countries by funding the most visible «greenhouse skeptics» — one of whom, S. Fred Singer, publicly denied receiving oil industry money as recently as February, 2001.

ALEC is a group of big industry leaders (oil, coal, gas, tobacco, healthcare, etc) that help create state bills that limit the responsibility of their companies, and thus make more money.

The money going into politics from the oil, gas and coal industries gets huge returns in the form of subsidies back to fossil fuels.

In this 112th Congress alone, oil, gas and coal interests gave over $ 20 million of this «dirty energy money» to our Senators and Representatives, to influence their votes around industry - friendly measures from dismantling the power of regulatory bodies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to approving the Keystone pipeline, to opening up the outer - continental shelf to drilling.

To me, looking above and below the fold, try to capture the reality that the fossil fuel industry extracting carbon molecules from the Canadian boreal forest (e.g., Tar Sands) will make more money if Keystone XL gets built and those increased profits will, in essence, be the equivalent of picking the pockets of Americans who currently are benefitting from a «discounted» oil price.

For more on the $ 7 billion per year in taxpayer money currently being given away to the oil, gas, and coal industries to extract on public lands, see our recent report: «Unequal Exchange: How Taxpayers Shoulder the Burden of Fossil Fuel Development on Federal Lands.»

I'm sure you will ferret out any foreign money involved in lobbying our government on behalf of big oil, the pharmaceutical companies, the insurance interests and the grain industry.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, House Energy and Commerce Chair Rep. Fred Upton, who blasted Jackson all during Wednesday's hearing, was among the top 20 recipients of oil and gas money in the U.S. House in 2010, taking close to $ 250,000 from the industry during his career.

They use oil industry money to promote their cause if they can get hold of it, but generally this money goes into promoting the cause, not their own pockets, the number of denialist sites on the web attest to how far this money is made to go.

Oh yes, it disrupts the flow of money to some established industries based on coal and oil, so we can expect a lot of opposition to its use.

Astonishingly, Opposition Conservative Leader Jason Kenney, normally a harsh ideological foe of «picking winners and losers» with taxpayers» money, was apparently willing to make an exception for the oil industry.

At a time in history where most everyone has access to the internet and since all that we as REALTORS own to sell is ourselves — unlike the oil and gas companies — it's beyond absurd that the Competition Bureau of Canada would waste two cents of taxpayers money trying to undermine a ligitimate and valuable Canadian Industry!

Apparently the BC Government has an unlimited supply of money, (from the U. S. oil industry that funds the pipeline protests?)