Sentences with phrase «oil money funding»

Indeed, these individuals never directly associated with the directly oil money funded Global Climate Coalition, an organization that went away during the 90s, and instead plied their trade in free market think tanks like George Marshall.

And the Center for Media and Democracy's claim that Oil Money Funds Climate Deniers and Attacks on Climate Scientists (backup).

I suspect oil money funds it.

Not exact matches

For the oil - trading community, the fall of hedge fund manager Andy Hall signaled a heavy blow, but while commodity funds continue to shutter their doors, some are finding other ways to make money, including trading refining margins and calendar spreads.

The funds, with more than $ 4 billion under management, can still make money on its drillco investment even after oil prices slipped below $ 45 per barrel this month on oversupply concerns.

Several major commodities funds also lost money on oil wagers or shut in recent years.

We're also doing the change in our voting patterns to really have «new management»; we want to ensure that we will have some money left in the Heritage Trust Fund so that our grandchildren will be able to pay for the land, air and water that the oil and gas industry has contaminated — that they will not do the remediation work on — before they leave Alberta.

Hedge funds and other money managers have stepped up their short bets on crude oil ahead of the OPEC meeting, covering against a steep downfall in prices should OPEC fail to come to terms.

I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.

Worse yet... Saudi oil money is paying for that ISLAMIC madness to be taught in schools here in America as well as funding for their wahcked head banging mosques!

This the thing though we have got the money, Not as much as the other oil funded teams but we can afford thee players with a bit of guile and some offloading of dead wood but noooo it wont happen

Can Oil country based wealth funds squander their money of football.

None less than Bayern Munich, our financially fair playing opponents in the Champions League, are making representations to UEFA to try to get the bizarre spending of the oil, crime and dodgy money funded clubs curtailed.

The issue with their structure at present is the lack of enormous commercial deals to ensure the money generated is enough to compete with rivals funded by oil money.

The grant program began about 25 years ago when the National Park Service began setting aside money from off - shore oil leases and formed the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

An independent Scotland would face the choice of cutting those services, or raising other taxes to higher than UK levels, so as to be able to put the oil revenue into a long - term savings fund, or spending it to support services now, and face that choice later when the oil runs out, but with no cushion of money in the bank.

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.»

OXFAM - Ghana is funding ACEP's tracking of the oil money projects, particularly in the agric sector.

This would mean there would be no money left for Salmond's Norwegian - style oil fund, which the first minister seemed convinced would happen within a decade.

«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.

In his estimation, anybody who reposes confidence in the words of the President on the matter will eventually be disappointed because it is not possible to fund Free SHS from oil money.

Rogers noted that oil and gas money in June still accounted for a very small fraction of the $ 48 million raised by the campaign and by the Republican National Committee through its Victory Fund.

He, however, declared the payment of $ 1.092 billion in the Malabu oil deal into an escrow account at JP Morgan, London, by the former ministers as fraudulent, stressing that the money should have been paid into the Federation Account or the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

Instead, the money comes from dedicated sources approved by Congress — for example, the 21st Century Cures Act, a House bill to speed the development of new medicines, would give NIH $ 8.75 billion in new funding over 5 years by selling oil from the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve.

The Obama administration's budget cuts funding for oil research and the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository as it increases money to renewables, carbon capture and storage

Similarly, Canada has been aggressive in funding research like Mercier's and carbon capture research on oil sands operations via national funds and a $ 2 billion money pot from Alberta, said the analyst.

«The oil spill killed a couple thousand birds, and I wouldn't be shocked if what they're doing with the money from it will kill more,» said Jonathan Lovvorn, a Washington, D.C., attorney for the Fund for Animals.

ACQUISITION In early January, the Brooklyn Museum announces the acquisition of its first Beauford Delaney painting, «Untitled (Fang, Crow, and Fruit),» a 1945 oil on canvas still life (shown above), purchased from Michael Rosenfeld Gallery with money from the museum's African American Purchase Fund.

Since then, 22 families have been evacuated from their homes, the appearance of oiled birds and wildlife has raised concerns the oil has spread beyond the neighborhood and we've learned that a legal technicality exempts Exxon from being required to contribute money to a federal oil spill cleanup fund.

jeremy, the amount of skeptics» funding from oil companies is a tired nostrum; the big money is to be made from the trillions to be siphoned from cap and trade offsets, carbon taxes to be collected, academic «research» grants to co2 warriors, etc. not to mention al gore's recently closed (filled!)

«While Americans have rallied in support of clean renewable energy at home, the U.S. Export - Import Bank has made it a priority to handout money to fossil fuel companies to work on projects abroad,» said Kate DeAngelis of Friends of the Earth U.S. «If Trump gets his way, U.S. Export - Import Bank will become a slush fund for Big Oil's plans to accelerate climate change.

«As oil production from tar sands is viewed very negatively in Germany, it is difficult to explain why such a research project for tar sands is funded with public monies — especially considering that the project is being undertaken in a country that has withdrawn from the Kyoto Protocol.

Donations are made (primarily for tax reasons) from all sorts of individuals and companies, including oil and other natural resource companies, to the charitable foundations, who then pass it on to the funding organisation that donates money to the environmental NGO.

Perhaps the most totemic sign of the times came in September when the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a philanthropic body set up by the heirs to the Standard Oil fortune, announced that it would pull its money out of fossil fuels, beginning with coal and tar sands.

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....

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.

Especially when the money trail funding certain science leads us right back to the oil and gas industry.

Well if oil money is corrupt and evil — and if green activists really believe that those who take it are nefarious and untrustworthy — why are there no websites analogous to Greenpeace's ExxonSecrets about the very long, very close relationship that the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has enjoyed with Shell (aka Royal Dutch Shell)?

The results they turned up not only fail to support the «big oil / fossil fuel» funding of folks who disagree with various aspects of the CAGW meme, they show where the money is really going.

Remember the headline in The Independent that pointed an accusing finger: Think - tanks take oil money and use it to fund climate deniers (backup link)?

I think it is essential to follow the money, and if skepticism is being funded by dirty oil money we should note this, since the funded research is producing arguments that advance the funder's interests.

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 money spent on exploring for and producing oil, gas, etc., and the resulting profits earned by the BIG EVIL fossil energy companies is not spent countering the money spent on funding CAGW biased research, and the related promotional propaganda.

They also receive $ 250,000 per year from the Scaife oil fortune, and we see almost half of the Institute is funded by oil money.

The fact that the coal and oil boys make more money doesn't mean they spend it on research and funding skeptics...

The money for the funds is provided by entities that receive certain types of oil by sea transport.

Wolf campaigned on a platform of instituting a 5 percent extraction tax on oil and gas drilling in Pennsylvania, arguing that the money raised — an estimated $ 1 billion annually — would help boost state education funding.

As for the ubiquitous claim that the debate has been skewed by corporate funding — especially oil money — what tends to be forgotten are the much larger sums available to the likes of Greenpeace and WWF to push their own exaggerated alarmist line.

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.

Now if climate sceptics were awash with oil money, as alleged by the likes of Dessler, Davies, Oreskes and Brulle, wouldn't the top UK and US sceptic bloggers be supplied with sufficient funds that they didn't have to clutter their blog with irritating adverts?