Sentences with phrase «powerful energy companies»

In «Promised Land,» directed by Gus van Sant, Steve and his partner Sue (Frances McDormand) head to a rural Midwestern community to convince the townsfolk to sell their drilling rights to the powerful energy company that employs him.

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I fear the answer may be no, in part because of the enormous power of the established order — the great grain companies are as powerful, if not as visible, as the great energy companies.

Schumer, who is now the state's senior senator and one of the most powerful and influential Democrats in the country, showed up to his old stomping grounds to support the Assembly's passage of the Iran Divestment Act to bar companies that invest in Iran's energy industry from doing business with the state.

Partnership, if precisely planned and structured, can be a powerful tool not only to keep public company viable but also to address cost and investment challenges, improve efficiency and service quality, increase expertise, attract more rapid and substantial investments in infrastructure and new energy technologies.

«Peter Galbraith Kelly was involved in a criminal scheme to bribe one of the most powerful men in New York in exchange for favorable treatment for his energy company,» said U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman in a statement.

«We need a representative in Albany who will stand up to powerful oil and natural gas companies, support renewable energies, and preserve our environment for future generations.

Despite a few setbacks — the river's powerful flow damaged the rotors and broke off some of the original fiberglass and steel blades — the company has managed to keep two of the turbines operational, supply electricity to a nearby supermarket and, more recently, attract $ 8.5 million in funding from sources including the U.S. Department of Energy and the Canadian government to further develop and test its technology.

Together with colleagues from Chalmers University of Technology and the company Borealis in Sweden, he has found a powerful method for reducing energy losses in alternating current cables.

I'm a big fan of the Amazing Grass Green Superfood powder, which contains a powerful blend of nutritious greens and grasses — organically grown on the company's family farm in Kansas — that increase energy, boost immunity, and alkalize and detoxify the body.

In December the company said it would delay the launch until late this year so it can make use of more powerful and energy - efficient chipsets expected to arrive in mid-2012.

Wind energy — «can cause considerable consternation for local communities» — does this mean one law for the powerful corporate fracking companies and another for wind companies.

AEP Ohio's proposal to increase fixed charges would hurt low - income customers, the same people this powerful electric utility pretends to represent when it attacks clean energy policies, and fits into the company's long record of poor treatment of its most...

Watchdog groups claim that powerful big solar companies worked to exclude homeowners from the state's energy mix.

But with federal incentives and a powerful «Buy American» mentality — as well as a growing national desire for energy efficiency, or so we like to think — to motivate renewable energy companies, at few of them have headed for Detroit and the Northeastern industrial states to set up shop.

By aligning two of the solar industry's most powerful companies we will be able to move projects forward faster and more efficiently, thereby directly helping the countries we have a presence in by providing cleaner, sustainable energy and through the creation of jobs.»

Yet at a time of gravest threat to our future the government is in the thrall of a powerful group of energy companies.

plausible «conspiracy theory»: that fossil energy companies, driven by the need to protect hundreds of billions of dollars of profits, encourage obfuscation of the inconvenient scientific results... Challenging vested interests as powerful as the oil and coal lobbies was never going to be easy... Scientists are not naturally aggressive defenders of arguments... The skeptics are far, far more determined and expert propagandists to boot.