Sentences with phrase «pressure on the oil companies»

In turn, this is likely to generate considerable resentment and to increase the intervention pressure on the oil companies and the government.

This would make the tax system more honest; it would be a big deterrent against any future tax - rises; and it would add pressure on the oil companies to be fair.

The chief secretary to the Treasury says he will put pressure on oil companies to pass on more of the oil price drop to consumers at the pumps

«Imagine if I could get ten or 15 cities to all sue and put the same pressure on the oil companies that we did with tobacco companies and create some kind of massive settlement,» he said.

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The United Nations Security Council blacklisted dozens of ships and shipping companies on Friday over oil and coal smuggling by North Korea, boosting pressure on Pyongyang as leader Kim Jong Un plans to meet with his South Korean and U.S. counterparts.

This has increased pressure on companies with oil sands assets to improve (i.e., reduce) their environmental footprint, and in some cases, to divest such assets.

But plummetting oil and gas prices took a toll on that company too, putting free cash flow and profits under enormous pressure.

In contrast, we had nice returns in a number of our media, insurance and food stocks, among others, including Axel Springer, Schibsted, Zurich Insurance, Berkshire Hathaway, and Nestlé, but it was unfortunately not enough to overcome the continued pressure on our oil & gas stocks, which included fully integrated holdings such as Total and Royal Dutch; exploration and production companies such as Devon Energy and Pacific Rubiales; Canadian oil sands producers such as Cenovus; and energy service holdings such as Halliburton and National Oilwell Varco.

Jane Dale Owen, granddaughter of one of the founders of Humble Oil, the parent company of ExxonMobil, made a strong appeal to shareholders to put more pressure on corporate leadership to divert its resources to cleaner more renewable forms of energy.

The world's largest oil companies are increasingly faced with public pressure to do something about their impact on climate change.

We must stop Conflict Palm Oil in its tracks.That's why Rainforest Action Network is fighting back, putting pressure on twenty of the most well known food companies in the world — the Snack Food 20 — to get Conflict Palm Oil off the shelves right now.

In the face of this political pressure, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the other Democrats in the House crafted an energy bill that gave the Republicans the vote they demanded on drilling, but that also limited the impacts of OCS drilling on coastal tourism, renewed the renewable energy tax credit, and that stripped away many oil company subsidies.

From face - to - face meetings with top corporate officials, to nonviolent direct actions at corporate headquarters, to banner drops calling out bad actors, to brand jams designed to disrupt the public relations plans of our targets, RAN has placed mounting pressure on these companies and coined the now widely used term «Conflict Palm Oil.»

When students at UCL in London escalate actions on campus highlighting the conflict between the university's research and its investments, and exposing the close connections of university council members to fossil fuel companies; when pressure from scientists, climate activists and museum employees force oil mogul David Koch to step down from the board of New York's American Museum of Natural History; when the City of Cape Town comes under pressure to divest from the companies at the root of the city's water crisis; when Nobel Prize winners urge the prestigious Nobel Foundation to cut their financial ties to fossil fuel companies, we have exactly the kind of impact we aim for with the Fossil Free campaign.

Image: Orangutan marooned on deforested oil palm concession in Central Kalimantan (Greenpeace) In another move that shows public pressure can have a positive effect on big companies and their suppliers, the world's largest consumer goods company and

Unfortunately, in an effort to fill their employment and production needs, many oil and gas companies put pressure on their workers to speed up production, hire inexperienced employees or require unsafe working hours.