Sentences with phrase «profits at enormous cost»

Neither Media Watch nor the ABC can pull the plug on the traction given to the crusade for truth in this murky world of public sponsorship of wind turbines which fail to achieve anything but produce profits at enormous cost to health and the right of quiet enjoyment of the great Australian landscape.

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And remember not only that this would contain just 20 percent of today's CO2 emissions but also this crucial difference: The oil industry has invested in its enormous infrastructure in order to make a profit, to sell its product on an energy - hungry market (at around $ 100 per barrel and 7.2 barrels per tonne that comes to about $ 700 per tonne)-- but (one way or another) the taxpayers of rich countries would have to pay for huge capital costs and significant operating burdens of any massive CCS.