Sentences with phrase «protect energy interests»

To many of them the American energy revolution — with oil production projected to reach 10.7 million barrels per day this year, and the U.S. becoming a net natural gas exporter for the first time in nearly 60 years — means our armed forces are less likely to be deployed to faraway places to protect energy interests.

Not exact matches

Fossil - fuel subsidies drain government budgets, throwing up a fiscal wall that blocks state support for clean energy while protecting the interests of the oil industry.

I have used a fall in exports to show how constrained Beijing's policy choices are, but I could just have easily done the same using as an example any change in the currency regime, the reform of the hukou system, the de-industrialization of the bankrupt northeast provinces, the development of the OBOR and Silk Road projects, changes in interest rates or minimum reserves, protecting the stock market from crashing, the provincial bond swaps, changes in the tax regime, improving energy and environmental policies, and so on.

Beach Energy is «making sure our interests are protected» as the $ 600 million - plus takeover tussle plays out over AWE.

Beach Energy chief executive Matt Kay says the oil and gas producer is «making sure our interests are protected» as the $ 600 million - plus takeover tussle plays out over AWE, its partner in the prized Waitsia onshore gas field in Western Australia.

In places like Mexico, for example, policymakers stuck to their guns and hiked interest rates to protect their currency (despite speculative attacks), followed through with fiscal reform and liberalized the energy sector.

(c) Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that executive departments and agencies (agencies) immediately review existing regulations that potentially burden the development or use of domestically produced energy resources and appropriately suspend, revise, or rescind those that unduly burden the development of domestic energy resources beyond the degree necessary to protect the public interest or otherwise comply with the law.

Sadiq Khan MP, shadow justice secretary, said: «The energy and time this government is spending on arguments about the Human Rights Act shows how completely out of touch it is with the British people who are not interested in cat fights between ministers but how the safety of their communities will be protected after cuts in police budgets which go too far and too fast.»

Secondly, to streamline its diplomatic action so to encompass the various areas of shared and exclusive competence (e.g. trade, energy, climate change), and thirdly, to aim at reinforcing the legalisation of those international agreements and institutions that are deemed as capable to protect the EU's strategic endowment and interests.

Fossil fuel interests are using their clout at the White House and in Congress to sabotage every renewable energy program that comes along, while make sure massive government subsidies, on the order of $ 100 billion a year when you count it all up, continue to flow to the fossil fuel industry (U.S. military expenditures are $ 500 billion a year, and good chunk of that is devoted to protecting overseas oilfields, for example).

You can point the finger at all sorts of participants in this battle, but I believe (and we have been examining and discussing at length on this site for more than 8 years now) the principal drivers of the polarization are coming more from: (1) the corporate energy interests who are protecting their profits against regulation and other policies that would move the system away from fossil fuels, and using their clout in the political process to tie things up; (2) right - wing anti-government and anti-regulatory ideologues whose political views appear threatened by scientific conclusions that point toward a need for stronger policy action; (3) people whose religious or cultural identities appear threatened by modern science; and so forth.

The heavy hand of the fossil fuel industry works mostly in legal ways such as the «I'm an Energy Voter» campaign in the U.S. Failure of executive and legislative branches to deal with climate change makes it essential for courts, less subject to pressure and bribery from special financial interests, to step in and protect young people, as they did minorities in the case of civil rights.

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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?

A robust natural gas export policy will enhance our energy leadership, and it also will help grow our economy, support our manufacturing sector, strengthen our national security interests and protect our environment.

In 1997 Bill Clinton changed the Freedom of Information Act to protect wind energy interests and help them conceal their industrial carnage to highly protected species.

There was I, thinking the WSJ wasn't interested in scientific argument, and were intent on protecting the short term economic interests of large energy corporations at the longer term expense of the environment.

In that way, they can position themselves as investing in the emerging clean energy economy, as protecting their farmers and others who depend on a predictable climate, and as caretakers of future generations — consistent with their own national self - interest.

If they were truly interested in finding realistic answers to the dual challenge of providing energy needed for modern life and protecting the environment, they would welcome debate and open discussion.

He said that the Indian delegation was tasked with protecting India's long term interests and emphasizing the need for growth and development space to tackling the problem of eradicating poverty, providing energy access to all and addressing other developmental priorities.

The #irev4NY challenge is a great opportunity for everyone to see the breadth and depth of interest that New Yorkers have in reducing their energy use, protecting the environment and engaging in clean energy projects,».

Earthworks, an NGO dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the impacts of irresponsible mineral and energy development, stated: «It is more likely the sentence is retribution for Mr. Munkhbayar's long history of challenging environmentally destructive interests than because of any danger posed or law broken by Mr. Munkhbayar and his fellow activists.»

Furthermore, Exelon joined forces with fossil fuel connected groups to attack clean energy and protect its financial interests, despite the negative impacts their actions could have on ratepayers and the renewable energy industry.

I'm not saying there's a linear connection between the news from two weeks back of lobbyists sending forged letters urging opposition to the climate bill to a Virginia Congressman, but it does show the level of manipulation going on to protect vested interests of polluters — Think Progress reports that Greenpeace has obtained internal documents from the American Petroleum Institute that show they plan on staging so - called «energy citizen» rallies during the August Congressional recess: The API would coordinate transportation for oil industry employees to these rallies, where the objective would be,

In addition to tea party congressional Republicans, opposition to continuing the wind credit comes from the American Energy Alliance, a Washington, D.C. - based industry group linked to petrochemical interests that promote expanded drilling for fossil fuels, including in the protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, and approval of the proposed XL pipeline to bring Canadian tar sands oil to refineries in Texas and the Gulf Coast.

Alaska needs to lead the effort to combat global warming, not continue to protect the narrow interests of the extractive energy companies.

The bill, which was openly written with the help of lobbyists, has now gotten bipartisan support from one of the chief opponents of clean energy reform from the Democratic side of the aisle — any guesses on who it is?It's our friend, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D - AR)-- she has cosponsored the amendment, popularly known as the Dirty Air Act, and seeks to protect the interests of heavily polluting industries.

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.

The Court found that such measures serve «the ultimate aim -LSB-...] to protect consumers» as well as (in the case of the adequate investments in the distribution system) «security of energy supply» (already recognized in Campus Oil), and are therefore justifiable on overriding grounds in the public interest (para 66).

Our attorney, Joseph A. «Tony» Mesa, focuses his time and energy on protecting the interests of those who have been victimized by serious injuries.

It can be difficult, when all of your energy is focused on physical recovery, to spend the time and effort necessary to protect your legal interests after a personal injury.

Eversheds Sutherland's deep background in energy and government policy helps clients protect, expand and promote their business interests.

The government is failing to protect the interests of consumers by not implementing a mandatory time - of - sale energy label.»