Sentences with phrase «public subsidy because»

But Mike Childs, head of climate change at Friends of the Earth, insisted the expansion of nuclear power could not go ahead without some form of public subsidy because of the massive costs of construction.

«It is not obvious to see how nuclear will be affordable without some form of public subsidy because the costs keep rising of building nuclear and getting rid of the waste,» he said.

Not exact matches

Moreover, they argue that federal subsidies are warranted because a significant portion of state and local government spending is for education, health, public welfare, and transportation, all of which have important spillovers that benefit the population in other jurisdictions as well.

The editorial proclaims that Baltimore land is great for new development because «all of the potentially messy fights about public subsidies for infrastructure have already been resolved.»

It is the Wal - Mart's of the business world who are profiting most from the low minimum wage standard and also relying on taxpayer subsidies to keep their poverty wage workers fed, housed, and health enough to work for them because these minimum wage workers are paid so low they qualify for food stamps, Section 8 and public housing rent subsidies, Medicaid, and the Earned Income Tax Credit,» Hawkins said.

Cuomo insults the legacy of his late father, liberal icon Mario Cuomo, by claiming that businesses paying the minimum wage «steal» $ 2 billion from taxpayers because their workers can get government subsidies, according to Empire Center for Public Policy President E.J. McMahon.

Swierczewski said he hoped the PACB could schedule another meeting by year's end to vote again on the Lighthouse Point subsidies, as well as $ 1.85 million for an office complex in downtown Albany that, according to Conwall, ESD held back because it needed to analyze the results of a public hearing.

This can be built by investing the savings in national priorities right now while clearly communicating to the general public that the new investments — regardless of whether they fund a new school, hospital, bridge, direct cash transfer, or subway line — are made possible because of subsidy savings.

«I was disappointed in my fellow public members who voted to table it because I don't think they would have voted if I made a resolution to add more subsidies,» Simmons said.

The hypocritical Obama - Purdon - FWS policy exists solely to protect, promote and advance an anti-hydrocarbon agenda that is increasingly at odds with environmental, scientific, economic, job - creation and public opinion reality — and to safeguard wind turbines that survive solely because of government mandates, taxpayer subsidies... and exemptions from laws that rule, penalize and terrorize the rest of us.

Subsidies, along with regulations and cap - and - trade with offsets, are attractive to the public and Congress despite serious limitations on their effectiveness, because their costs are largely hidden.

Many Western European countries are cutting back on such «renewables» because of popular opposition to the increased costs and financial problems caused by large public subsidies for «renewables.»

Nuclear power doesn't compete with other energy sources anywhere because it receives massive public subsidies in the form of liability limits enjoyed by no other energy source — not even close.

However, nowadays investors will almost always conclude a contract with the State if it concerns public services, works, etc. furthermore, a lot of the cases that go before ISDS could also be brought under commercial arbitration because they often concern the revocation of some form of license, subsidy, etc, that formed the basis of the investment.