Sentences with phrase «oil interests behind»

The about - to - retire Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, Phil Radford, unabashedly points to Ross Gelbspan as «the lone voice, the moral compass, the beacon that has inspired countless people, me included, to demand our country and our future back from the coal and oil interests behind global warming» (full text here).

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Meaning, if it is built, it is because the interests behind it likely do not believe the promise of the Notley government in Alberta that oil sands production emissions will stop at 100 megatonnes of GHGs.

Hearst was behind the organised campaign against cannabis hemp, then one of America's most successful crops, by timber, oil and paper interests.

With media interest and public support behind him, Pryce is poised to make a run for Senate on an eco-friendly platform that seeks to abolish oil drilling altogether — something that doesn't sit too well with his ambitious wife Deborah (Connie Nielsen), who's lined up potential big business financial support for his campaign in the form of oil exec Mark Lavin (Bryan Batt).

If our government were truly interested in reducing oil consumption and CO2, why is it that the Bureau of Land Managment is currently behind efforts to support oil shale R&D and that it is considered a resource that can be relied upon when conventional oil reserves are depleted?

Two Texan oil companies are supporting the campaign which has allowed the environmental movement to keep shouting about «vested interests» who are behind the campaign.

Picture: soy and corn plantations and algae in Chubut, Argentina.Leaving the most radical speeches behind, we thought worth mentioning some excerpts from a document by Engineer Enrique Mario Martinez, president of the Argentine National Institute for Industrial Technology (a well known investigation institution), who highlights issues like the low yield of corn - based biodiesel, the different impacts in the environment between biodiesel and bioethanol, and the big oil companies interests in biodiesel mixed with petrol.

Attacks on electric cars by the oil industry are on a par with misinformation campaigns promoted by big tobacco companies and vested interests undermining climate science, according to Elon Musk, the serial entrepreneur who founded PayPal and the brains behind both the space exploration company SpaceX and the electric sports carmaker Tesla Motors.