Sentences with phrase «powerful oil interests»

Under it, Ottawa will play a much smaller role in protecting people from harmful projects, while retaining the right to basically rubber - stamp big projects that powerful oil interests want.

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President Obama called it «a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans.»

The powerful lobbying organisation, which receives funding from pharmaceutical, weapons and oil interests among others, is heavily funded by the Koch Charitable Foundation whose founder, Charles G Koch, is one of the most generous donors to the Tea Party movement in the US.

The book's title, Special Interest, invokes a term historically applied to wealthy and powerful entities such as oil companies, tobacco interests, and gun manufacturers, whose narrow aims are often recognized as colliding with the more general public interest in such matters as clean water, good health, and publicInterest, invokes a term historically applied to wealthy and powerful entities such as oil companies, tobacco interests, and gun manufacturers, whose narrow aims are often recognized as colliding with the more general public interest in such matters as clean water, good health, and publicinterest in such matters as clean water, good health, and public safety.

ConocoPhillips is a powerful member of the API powerhouse of fossil fuel interests and is very determined to open more federal waters to oil drilling -LSB-...] in an April 22, 2003, news release: «The partnership between the National Science Teachers Association and ConocoPhillips has produced a very valuable tool for our nation's science teachers,» said Gerald Wheeler, NSTA Executive Director.

Martha do you accept that is entirely legitimate and in fact only right and proper that what you describe as «a small but powerful sector of coal, oil and energy interests» should seek to protect their commercial interests and the interests of the many people that work and earn a living in those sectors?

They've written letters to the government demanding that Ottawa stop a swarm of activist groups backed by foreign billionaires from hijacking — as the prime minister himself put it — the hearings over the Canadian Northern Gateway pipeline that would carry our oil from Alberta to B.C. Canadians have been calling into radio shows and writing blogs, and spreading the word in their communities about the fact that this crucial decision over Canada's national energy policy is being infiltrated by what are essentially the well - paid lobbyists of wealthy and powerful foreign interests.

It's as if politics, the desire for power, and the influence of powerful interests would each suddenly disappear were only we to spend enough dollars on wind technology as a «white» alternative to the black magic of oil.

Despite electing a president who pledged to end «the tyranny of oil» and to break the stranglehold of corporate interests, we're seeing CO2 emissions rise to potentially catastrophic levels; we're seeing corporations usurp ever more power from individuals; and we are left seemingly helpless against a vastly powerful media machine that actively spreads disinformation and ignorance and calls it truth.

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.

Not sell it off to the highest bidders, who will of course be highly motivated interests like oil companies and large, powerful businesses?