Sentences with phrase «powerful oil industry»

Jennings also noted, however, that Trump has gone on record in supporting ethanol because it fits with the president - elect's theme of achieving energy independence (although Trump also has listened to some powerful oil industry voices critical of some parts of the RFS).

In short, Canada's staggeringly powerful oil industry wants «oversight» (their word) of political, civil service, and regulatory institutions in both the Alberta and federal governments.

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Perry said the energy industry, leveraging the continent's substantial oil and gas reserves, can create a North American strategy that is powerful around the world.

Little Georgie Dubya was from skull & bones, an organization that hand picks people from wealthy families to be placed in powerful positions to make policy from banks, oil industries, world trade, education, wall street, and yes... politics.

Well Bill, I guess I do not see your group / religion as any more than a powerful lobby group, no different than oil and gas, defence industries, tobacco, NRA gun industry, etc..

Push to hold industry accountable The oil and gas industry, one of the state's most powerful political forces, has acknowledged some role in the damages, but so far has defeated efforts to force companies to pay for it.

The oil companies do have control of the liquid fuels market, however — so at the end of the day, what the biofuel folks are looking to do is to take market share away from probably the most powerful industry in America, and arguably in the world.

It included a video installation of Ogoni dancing around pipelines — the lively and powerful contrasted with the inorganic and inert — and the first - ever photographs of the Ogele, secretive performance groups that emerged in the 1980s wearing masks that celebrated opposition to the oil industry.

I suggest they look at what's happening in the U.S. oil and natural gas industry, which — with its emphasis on innovation and technology — continues to be a powerful resource on both of these fronts.

Rich industrialized countries are not homogenous societies, within those countries there are elites, the one percent, and the powerful corporations, the oil and auto industries, among others.

If Goldacre really wants to stick his neck out, why doesn't he try arguing against a rich, powerful, bullying Climate - Change establishment which includes all three British main political parties, the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society, the Prince of Wales, the Prime Minister, the President of the USA, the EU, the UN, most schools and universities, the BBC, most of the print media, the Australian Government, the New Zealand Government, CNBC, ABC, the New York Times, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, most of the rest of the City, the wind farm industry, all the Big Oil companies, any number of rich charitable foundations, the Church of England and so on?

The big guns in the skeptical community are Steve McIntyre and Anthony Watts, and no one has demonstrated one smidgeon of evidence that they are on the take, from anyone at all, much less the oil industry or powerful industrial concerns.

The palm oil industry is a powerful political force in the country.

In fact, probably the main benefit of the US shale gas and oil «revolution» is that it's keeping the fossil fuel industry and it's cheer squad distracted while renewables, electric cars and associated technologies build the momentum needed to make their takeover unstoppable — even by the most powerful industry in the world.

With sales exceeding two billion dollars a day and trillions of dollars a year, the oil industry is indeed a powerful economic force.

In many European nations, where the oil industry doesn't have as powerful a grip on politics, gasoline routinely costs two or three times as much.

They may be small in number, but they have rich and powerful allies — the oil industry and the U.S. government.»

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