Sentences with phrase «oil interests among»
The powerful lobbying organisation, which receives funding from pharmaceutical, weapons and oil interests among others, is heavily funded by the Koch Charitable Foundation whose founder, Charles G Koch, is one of the most generous donors to the Tea Party movement in the US.
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Coconut oil is of special interest because it possesses healing properties far beyond that of any other dietary oil and is extensively used in traditional medicine among Asian and Pacific populations.
The two speakers situate this issue within an international context by contrasting the involvement of China and India and discussing the long - term prospects of Sudan's oil industry, among other interesting questions.
In today's digest, check among many interesting articles: the evolution within human microbiome by T.D. Lieberman, unique microbial biodiversity residing in hadal trenches by L.M. Peoples, changes in community composition in coastal water following exposure to oil and oil dispersant by S.H. Doyle.
Maintaining pupil interest in STEM subjects, especially among girls, is of vital importance to industries like oil and gas.
Although there's spare American consumer interest in this car so long as Western states are fracking oil for less than $ 50 per barrel, it seems Volt owners aren't financially motivated anyway: Volt owners have the third - highest average household income levels among Chevrolet's customers.
The five largest holdings are well - known among those interested in oil and natural gas plays:
Among the records were $ 3,907,500, Lot 26, a good large oil by Sam Francis (1923 - 94); $ 783,500 for an interesting Eric Fischl (b. 1948) painting, Lot 57; $ 321,500 for a large, strong and dramatic work by Julian Schnabel (b. 1951), Lot 56; $ 134,500 for a work by Joseph Kosuth (b. 1945), Lot 12; $ 277,500 for a work by Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Lot 7; $ 288,500 for a photo by Charles Ray (b. 1953), Lot 11; $ 1,762,500 for a work on paper by Jasper Johns (b. 1930), a rather dark American flag, Lot 17; $ 90,500 for a work on paper by Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945), Lot 64; and $ 3,907,500 for an Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976), Lot 36, «Brazilian Fish,» which almost doubled his previous record.
Among the works that did well were Lot 140, «Model for T.W.U.,» a maquette for a larger work that was installed on West Broadway in SoHo in 1981 - 2 by Richard Serra (b. 1939), which sold for $ 123,500, more than twice its high estimate; Lot 181, an untitled 1984 work by Keith Haring (1958 - 1990) that sold for $ 101,500 and had had a high estimate of $ 70,000; Lots 119 and 120, both by Christopher Wool (b. 1955), that sold for $ 96,000 and $ 79,500, and which had both carried high estimates of $ 35,000; Lot 131, «Negativert,» a large interesting 1983 work by Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) that sold for $ 96,000, a bit over its high estimate of $ 90,000; Lot 132, «Abstract Painting 816 - 3,» a 22 by 20 1/8 oil on canvas that resembles a melted multi-colored metal red, white and blue flag by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), that fetched $ 79,500 and had had a high estimate of $ 0,000; and Lot 134, «Dein Ashenes Haar Sulamith,» a very fine 1981 work by Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945), shown at the top of the article, that sold for $ 79,500 and had a high estimate of $ 70,000.
On the final night of the Arctic Frontiers Conference in Tromso (a very serious annual gathering of business and science interests to talk about the emerging opportunities with the warming of northern Norway causing the permafrost to melt opening new oil and gas fields among other things) there was a gathering of all the 1,000 participants.
Washington Free Beacon — 27 January 2015 Foreign Firm Funding U.S. Green Groups Tied to State - Owned Russian Oil Company Executives at a Bermudan firm funneling money to U.S. environmentalists run investment funds with Russian tycoons A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 2011.Oil Company Executives at a Bermudan firm funneling money to U.S. environmentalists run investment funds with Russian tycoons A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 2011.oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 2011....
«It emerged at the international level, through the combination of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low - cost alternatives to supposedly «offset» their continued and excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the «protection» of forests in their countries, (4) the interests of corporations that could profit from market - tradable «offset» credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn «unexploited» forests into a new market for this type of capital, through the commercialization of «environmental services» such as carbon sequestration, among others.»
Morano is also the Communications Director at CFACT, which has received funding from oil giants ExxonMobil and Chevron among other fossil fuel interests.
The Koch Brothers» supposed «free market» political activities often line up with the financial interests of Koch Industries, the 2nd largest privately held corporation in the United States and a major fossil fuel conglomerate (invested in coal, oil, and natural gas among many other sectors).