Sentences with phrase «power industry too»

The fracking boom has transformed the electric power industry too; coal - fired plants all over the country have been switching to natural gas.

Not exact matches

Although the search giant points out that the definition of which ads are acceptable comes from an independent industry group called the Coalition for Better Ads, some believe that the default blocking of certain ads puts too much power in Google's hands.

«It is still too early to tell what impact this incident will have on the nuclear power industry,» said one CEO.

Almost three - quarters of Americans think the pharmaceutical industry has too much power in the nation's capital, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

It also has increased the pace of approval for wind - power projects, although that industry, too, is plagued with overcapacity.

Unconscionable conduct (agrees with NFF that they have not provided protection and support reforms «to provide transparency in the supply chain» and recognise that «certain classes of suppliers... are predisposed to suffering from a special disadvantage...»; misuse of market power (legal framework must «level the balance of market power in negotiations...», «ensure transparency in the transmission of market prices» and «not allow for final market risks to be borne by the primary producer» and provide «transparency of contract processes» - specifically, Canegrowers supports effects test and a process giving ACCC greater power to «regulate anti-competitive behaviour and impose penalties», shifting «the decisions framework from the judicial system to a regulatory system» which would make it more accessible to small producers); collective bargaining (notes limits of Sugar Industry Act (Qld); authorisation and notification approval costly and limited and not a viable alternative - peak bodies should be able to «commence and progress collective bargaining with mills on behalf of their members» and current threshold too restrictive)» competitive neutrality (mixed outcomes - perverse outcomes in the case of natural monopolies - suggest remove «application of competitive neutrality provisions to natural monopoly essential services»)

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chainsIndustry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chainsindustry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

The UK is also seen as offering a welcome to infrastructure investment that delivers stable long - term returns that continues to be of great interest to China from projects regarded as too sensitive for foreign involvement by other states, such as the nuclear power industry.

Teachout says if the merger is approved, there will be a concentrated of too much power in the industry.

Anyone who has worked in the defence engineering industry will know that financial risks start - out as innocuous looking technical risks on the Defence Contractor's premises, where selected ones are deliberately concealed by the Contractor during the design and development phase, then skilfully transferred to MoD Abbey Wood, Bristol where they morph into «show stopping» risks and come to the fore immediately after the main investment decision has been taken (as they have done so spectacularly on the Type 45 destroyers with total power blackouts), ultimately ending up as an additional cost burden on the Front Line Commands, who have recently been given responsibility for the defence equipment budget — resulting in sleepless nights for many other people too!

S. 697, meanwhile, cleared a key Senate committee on a 15 - 5 bipartisan vote this past May, following a series of amendments designed to win over Democrats who worried that the bill favored industry interests and took too much power from state regulators.

«Too cheap to meter» was a slogan invented by supporters of nuclear power before the industry's real costs had been worked out.

The power industry, too, is showing greater interest, and small manufacturing companies across the U.S. are selling ever more efficient photovoltaic components.

Advancing Safety As the economic performance of the nuclear power industry has improved over the past 20 years, so too has its safety performance.

As much as good rehabilitation gives us a licence to operate, so too does the nuclear power industry need to be able to talk about its licence to operate - and our behaviour, as their suppliers, is key to their message,» he said.

He seems too much an apologist for fossil fuel powered industries and lifestyles.

It is a systemic problem about the abuse of power that takes place across all industries and has enabled a culture of inequity to persist for far too long.»

If publishers let Amazon get away with this, Amazon will gain that much more power in the industry, and eventually publishers will have to eat those costs too, which will be passed on to authors... There's no good route out of this, and letting Amazon get away with this is definitely the worst possible thing that could happen.

Don't get me wrong, I am writing an ebook myself and have a web site and blog too, I support ebooks wholeheartedly and hope and believe (as Maggie Thatcher used to say) that they will transform the publishing industry, putting power back in the hands of the individual, which is my dearest wish.

MI: And I agree that having too much power concentrated in too few hands is not good for the industry or for readers and authors.

Not only have the likes of Fez, Lone Survivor, Home and Dear Esther shaken up the gaming establishment and shown just how much promise and power there is outside of the traditional publishing industry, but indie games now have their own movie too.

How different is the homogeneity of game development from the fact that tech, too, is an industry caught perpetually hiring itself — cis able - bodied white men and the women that lean into their traits — a strategy that continues to implode as buying power moves to people that look nothing like them?

The credit crisis and recession have hit the solar and wind industries hard elsewhere, but the rapid expansion of solar power capacity (and wind turbines, too) in California is the result of a mandate.

And how can the nation's power industry get fixing, if addressing an issue at one power plant in the nation's capital proves too much?

US industry analysts say the products of domestic companies will be too expensive and will not be able to compete with other energies such as wind power or gas.

This ignores, for example, power to gas (H2, SNG, etc) which can act as both a store of fuel, & a buffer for times of «too much electricity» and a way to de-carb industries that have so far been resistant (the petro - chem bunch).

And the same for solar and wind, etc — let's not put solar power plants in the middle of wildlife sanctuaries, let's protect birds and bats, but maybe we devote resources to identifying places where solar and wind can go that have the energy resource and are not too ecologically sensitive, and give the industry a roadmap sooner rather than later so that it can make plans.

Basically, in a rush to jumpstart a pioneering solar industry, the Spanish gov offered far too sweet a feed - in tariff for solar investors — a whopping 58 US cents per kilowatt hour generated by solar power.

I am aware of people making the argument that the big push by the nuclear industry for enormous government subsidies to find a massive expansion of nuclear power on the basis that nuclear power is «THE ANSWER» to global warming is a fraud that dishonestly and cynically takes advantage of growing concern about the very real problem of global warming, and I make that argument myself (because even a quite large expansion of nuclear electricity generation would have little effect on overall GHG emissions, at great cost, taking too long to achieve even that little effect, while misdirecting resources that could more effectively be applied elsewhere).

There is too much at stake to admit that a trace gas is not going to irreversibly heat the Earth, there is a huge industry dependent on renewable power.

«We have one of the best power reserves in the industry too, extending up to 23 months.

Hi Brian and John, Would the analogy of the Parthenon be in keeping also with the «sway factor» that is taken into consideration in construction; and then we have the «bore hole» studies that are conducted re the geological findings of the earth prior to «planting» a structure... all these examples, along with others such as tensile strength can be used to support our industry and its staying power, swaying power, strength and purpose as well (if this doesn't sound too philosophical).

There are some fine practitioners (too few) but this industry is a hopeless cause without a real leader, with the courage and the power to effect change.