Sentences with phrase «paid by the oil»

The ATO's attack on Exxon comes as unions continue a public campaign seeking to highlight the perceived lack of tax paid by the oil company.

Anyone who suggests otherwise simply does not understand the relevance of the scientific debate [think about Al Gore and claims that the debate is over and that anyone who disagrees too much with him apparently is a fraud or payed by oil companies or whatever...].

«There are people,» says Mr. Hoggan, a veteran self - promoting pro in the PR business, «mainly people who are getting paid by oil and coal interests, and [some] who are just basically ideologues, who are trying to confuse the public about climate change.»

Today, the Obama Administration released a fact sheet describing a new initiative included in the President's upcoming budget proposal, which will include a new fee paid by oil companies along with increased investments in new transportation options.

In another instance, I was accused by Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki of being paid by oil companies.

Most people, perhaps even deniers knew these scientists were paid by the oil industry for spreading doubt & denial.

Dyson says it's only principle that leads him to question global warming: «According to the global - warming people, I say what I say because I'm paid by the oil industry.

The scientists who disagree with IPCC are often accused of being paid by oil companies or other industries.

Normally the royalty rate paid by oil and natural gas companies for producing on public lands is 18.8 %.

Others, however, call me names and claim that I am paid by the oil and coal companies or the Koch brothers (I wish).

Not exact matches

Collector Steven Tananbaum sued in New York state court on Thursday over the non-delivery of three Koons sculptures, claiming a «well - oiled machine» that exploits collectors» desire to own the artists» works by using incoming money to pay debts.

To pay for that, the bill would cut a public health fund in President Barack Obama's health care law, reduce some payments made by Medicaid and Medicare and sell oil held in the government's strategic petroleum reserve.

By the early fall Goldberg noticed that the cash prices being paid for physical oil were significantly lower than even the suddenly weakening futures prices.

Or think of the price the Canadian economy is expected to pay for the damage wreaked by climate change after years of oil industry lobbyists opposing serious carbon reduction policies.

Based on that logic, Enbridge has warned that oil companies could pay as much as $ 315 - million in additional annual tolls by 2013 if Keystone XL is built, and takes away some of the crude that might otherwise flow through the Enbridge system.

To run DOI's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, one of two agencies that regulates offshore drilling, Zinke chose Scott Angelle, a member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission who served on the board of directors of (and was paid $ 989,238 by) oil pipeline operator Sunoco Logistics.

In the case of an oil spill cleanup, the costs are likely to be directly incurred by an insurance company, but the premiums paid for that insurance come at the expense of the value of the oil transportation service — the higher the expected clean - up costs from oil spills, the higher insurance premiums will be, and this will mean higher pipeline tolls, which in turn implies lower profits, taxes, and royalties on the products shipped.

Conservative foundations, multinational oil companies and a prescription drug maker were the most frequent sponsors of more than 100 expense - paid educational seminars attended by federal judges over a 4 1/2 - year period, according to a Center for Public Integrity investigation.

The kind of mindless environmental denial spewed by the oil industry and its press acolytes and paid - for «independent institutes» mirrors the kind of comments I read on my hobbyist US websites.

Tullow, which paid $ 1.5 billion in July to acquire Heritage Oil's concessions in the Lake Albert basin, saw the deal halted by government claims that it owed $ 404 million in capital gains taxes from the transaction.

Oil giant ExxonMobil says it stands by the interest rates charged on intra-company loans to its Australian subsidiary, despite those loans being central to the Australian Tax Office's claim that Exxon has not paid enough tax over the past decade.

B.C. taxpayers can't afford these sorts of sweetheart deals in a time of austerity, especially when the Minister of the Environment admitted that the fees paid by Nestle and oil and gas companies likely wouldn't even pay the government's bill for administration related to the legal changes.

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enezuela has offered India a 30 - percent discount on crude oil purchases, but only if India agrees to pay in El Petro, the cryptocurrency that Venezuela is touting as the first national digital currency backed by crude oil reserves.

By ensuring Canadian oil has access to tidewater, the Trans Mountain Expansion Project will extend Canada's reach into new markets with customers who pay higher prices, generate thousands of high - paying jobs, and create billions of dollars in government revenue for both the country and British Columbia.

By ensuring Canadian oil has access to tidewater, the TMEP will extend Canada's reach into new markets with customers who pay higher prices, generate thousands of high - paying jobs, and create billions of dollars in government revenue for both the country and British Columbia.

We pay as little attention to price forecasts by oil speculators as we do to stock market predictions.

Phillips 66 is widely known as a refiner, and refiners benefit from lower prices of oil because they have to pay less for each barrel of crude oil to perfect (and can thus capture higher margins by doing so).

Why are people willing to pay 21x earnings for Coca - Cola when it is expected to grow at 8 - 10 % over the next five years, while they are only willing to pay 9x earnings for an oil company like Chevron that is also expected to grow by 8 - 10 % over the next ten years?

After a generation or two in which paid quartets, in the better - heeled parishes, praised God weekly as surrogates for the congregation, and professional organizations raised the money for «plant expansion» (all, of course, with a well - oiled unction that would have glazed the eyeballs of St. Paul) it is not surprising that the counsel to stewardship should be preceded, according to some church programs, by an inquisatorial scrutiny of the share of each of the sheep in the gross national product.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

BP has pledged to set aside $ 20 billion to pay damage claims filed by people who will be harmed (physically or financially) from the oil spill.

What is SO REMARKABLE is that How Many Warnings HE has given us — Texas is on FIRE — The SOUTH is in a Forever Drought — The Mississippi Floods — Tornadoes wipe out Cities and STILL we Listen to MORONS that Listen to the HYPNOTISTS paid by the Coal and Oil Barons that try to convince you Global Warming isn't Destroying our Grandchildren's World.

Now that Afghanistan is occupied and American owned oil flows through Afghan pipelines, China pays 1 / 4th what you pay for crude oil sold to them by your own former leaders and current businessmen.

Food is to double in cost by the end of this year and fuel oil is already more than a burden that most of us take until the end of summer to pay off to only start again.

So on Sunday morning, in a great city church, folk are to be found who, amid the glorious architecture, stirring music and highly paid preaching of a metropolitan cathedral, are lonely — lonely, it may be, for a wooden meeting house on a country hillside, lighted by oil lamps, with an organ that squeaks every time the boy pumps it, and a man in the pulpit who can not preach for sour apples, but where they have friends.

Riggs» vitamin - based health kick program — for which he is paying a cool $ 5,000 to the same nutritional scientist used by Lawrence Welk — includes a high - protein diet and pills made up of concentrations of crude wheat - germ oil, liver extract and other horrible - sounding items.

Chelsea escaped by selling Luiz for a whopping 50 milion, an amount only an oil club would pay for a defender and they are in good shape.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

The club is firmly in the hands of our enemies and though I realised immediately that as a billionaire Kroenke was obviously a self centred and rapacious person — you don't become a billionaire by being caring and empathetic — and I also quickly saw through Gazidis's lies and snake oil sales methods — the hurt done by a man who clearly once loved our club and still professes to, by putting himself and his own power plus his own gross financial pay before the good of the club and fans, (the only honourable ones in this charade) is by far the unkindest cut and wound of all.

The only money paid to the Chicago Park District by the eight private yacht clubs that use prime park district land on the city «s lakefront are taxes on the gasoline and oil they sell to boaters — a total of about $ 24,000 a year.

A breakdown of the funds given by the EFCC shows that Acutus Integrated paid in $ 17,884, Northern Base Gas Company, $ 60m; Midwestern Oil and Gas, $ 9.5 m; and Laitan Adesanya, $ 1.35 million.

However, Ghana is a member of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), which requires countries with a heavy dependence on oil, gas, and mining industries to accurately report taxes, royalties, and fees paid by extractive companies.

Nigerian government now seeks a court order compelling the two companies to pay into the Federal government of Nigeria account with the Central Bank of Nigeria, the sum of USD 406,751,070 being the total value of the missing revenue from the shortfall / undeclared / under - declared crude oil shipments of the country, made by the companies to United States of America.

The amount, according to court papers in Lagos, represents the shortfall of the money paid by the multinational oil firm in the account of the Nigerian government with Central Bank of Nigeria, for crude oil lifted in 2013 and 2014.

A breakdown of the funds given by the EFCC shows that Actus Integrated paid in $ 17,884, Northern Base Gas Company, $ 60m; Midwestern Oil and Gas, $ 9.5 m; and Laitan Adesanya, $ 1.35 million.

«There is no town or village in Osun that has not been touched interms of infrastructural development by our administration and with what we have seen happening to our oil, showed that we can no longer depend on it, therefore, I want to implore us to pay our taxes for us to continue to enjoy government,» the governor emphasised.

Schumer said Senate Democrats have proposed paying for the initiative by eliminating tax breaks for oil and gas companies, and instituting a minimum tax rate of 30 percent on those earning more than $ 1 million per year.

«That while the practice had started before the present administration, it has continued under the watch of the new administration without abating, so much that in the year alone, between January and August, a total of $ 344.42 million worth of crude oil has been lifted by the NPDC without remittance and also not paying remittance and other taxes on lifting,» Melaye said, pointing out that the said amount could build about 11 world - class teaching hospitals fully equipped.

«To sponsor the Ghana Premier league with capital injection of one million dollars each season, to remove Airport Taxes, to remove utility bills paid by university students living on campus, to increase and give Ghanaians high quality infrastructure nationwide, loans from Western World will be abolished, Woyome will pay back our money, continuation of Mahama projects and we will use our oil wealth income to clear all Ghana's debt.»