Sentences with phrase «protect oil interests»

I agree with you, J.S. (comment # 243) that our leaders will continue to try to protect oil interests in the mid east.We've been playing up to them since President Rooosevelt courted favor with the Sheiks, Mullahs, Princes and Imams in the mid 1940s.

They say we support tyrannical governments and rulers who in turn protect our oil interests, and thus deny to their people the freedom and democracy which we treasure for ourselves..

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.

«Oil is certainly one of the things that we believe economically could get their (North Korea's) attention, and getting their attention is what we need to do to convince them that the course they're on is a destructive course that is not going to lead to protecting North Korea's interests but one that's going to led to their demise,» he said.

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.

The neocon position has for over a decade focused on advancing American strategic interests in the oil - rich Middle East and finding ways to establish bases for military operations to protect those interests.

Sins like greed (they call it profit or being a successful businessman so it's ok) hatred and intolerance (right now it's against gays and muslims, used to be blacks and the nazis used the Jews) killing (starting wars for oil profits, they call it protecting American interests).

For every portion of Africa's gold, uranium, timber and oil, there is a foreign country that believes that it is their strategic interest and will ensure that those interests are protected.

The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources wound up a week - long meeting in Hobart, Australia, considering proposals for two «marine protected areas» aimed at conserving the ocean wilderness from fishing, drilling for oil and other industrial interests.

Despite these factors, oil stands to remain the world's primary transportation fuel for decades, ensuring its strategic value and U.S. interest in protecting the trade.

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?

In the big picture, as we plan towards a sustainable economy, protecting the Great Bear Rainforest from massive oil spills would be in the fundamental national interest.

Her fearlessness and tenacity in the face of widespread government corruption and industry interests have won critical concessions to protect local villagers and the environment from being steamrolled by the development of the world's biggest oil export pipeline.

Protecting our transboundary waterways and places like Bristol Bay, the Chuckchi and Beaufort Seas, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil and mining interests are critical to ensuring the sustainability of the Arctic and the world.

This report's recommendations will assist federal, state, local, and tribal policymakers; non-governmental organizations; industry; academia; and anyone interested in the future of this special region to protect it from the impacts of damaging oil spills.

The oil and gas industry has lavished more than $ 440 million over the past six years on politicians, political parties and lobbyists in order to protect its interests in Washington, according to a new report by the Center for Public Integrity.

Manana Kochladze's tenacity in the face of widespread government corruption and multinational industry interests won critical concessions to protect local villagers and the environment in the former Soviet republic from the Baku - Tbilisi - Ceyhan oil export pipeline.

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,

(12) the establishment of such a vehicle fleet and distribution system would provide a large market that would mobilize private resources to substantially advance the technology and expand the production of alcohol fuels in the United States and abroad; (13) the United States has an urgent national security interest to develop alcohol fuels technology, production, and distribution systems as rapidly as possible; (14) new cars sold in the United States that are equipped with an internal combustion engine should allow for fuel competition by being flexible fuel vehicles, and new diesel cars should be capable of operating on biodiesel; and (15) such an open fuel standard would help to protect the United States economy from high and volatile oil prices and from the threats caused by global instability, terrorism, and natural disaster.

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.

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.

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.

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.

David Attenborough joins campaign to protect Africa's oldest national park from oil interests

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).