Sentences with phrase «subsidies as»

This means coal and gas power plants receive three times as much in subsidies as the renewable energy sources do.

These findings should be of interest to policy makers considering or implementing reforms to fossil fuel subsidies as well as readers following developments in global and regional energy markets.

(10/31/2007) The Dutch government will exclude palm oil from «green energy» subsidies as growing evidence suggests that palm oil is often less sustainable than advertised.

Today, Senator Bernie Sanders (I - VT) is unveiling a bill, the «End Polluter Welfare Act,» that would pretty much eliminate federal fossil fuel subsidies as we know them.

In the meantime, major oil producing governments are acting with a new sense of purpose in reforming energy subsidies as well as investing into the non-oil growth potential of their countries.

They finally got it, but they risked losing out on state solar subsidies as the pot of money dwindled.

Government actions to encourage «wind farm» construction include generous federal tax shelters and other subsidies as well as state mandates and subsidies provided by the State of Wisconsin and other states.

Such policies are generally understood to be far more efficient than technology - specific subsidies, and we should consider subsidies as an inferior substitute given the political difficulties of implementing efficient market - based policies that address the problem directly.

+ + & — Subsidies as policy make little sense.

Many view the export ban and fossil fuel subsidies as anachronistic, but the intervening years have shown that as hard as it is to put policies in place, it may be even more difficult to change existing ones.

If the SCC can be shown to be negative at current levels of abatement (and bear in mind that your excellent chart of net benefits for various abatement paths refers to benefits relative to the 2010 policy stance) then I'd be content to freeze policy at current levels but to steadily transfer all policies to a carbon tax, or at least to cost them on a common basis, ie to treat renewable subsidies as implicit carbon taxes.

Operators with unionized employees can patiently await lucrative government subsidies as inducements for plant shutdowns that include comprehensive social plans.

There has been much discussion of fossil fuel subsidies as both an inefficient use of public tax dollars and a barrier to the...

Dutch: no subsidies for biofuels - driven rainforest destruction Dutch: no subsidies for biofuels - driven rainforest destruction mongabay.com October 31, 2007 The Dutch government will exclude palm oil from «green energy» subsidies as...

No problem, just give nuclear power the same subsidies as renewable energy and also require that all nuclear energy be purchased whether it is needed or not as is generally done with renewable energy and nuclear energy will be just as viable as renewable energy.

Although concern with energy may not immediately be associated with the Fund's ongoing involvement in international monetary and fiscal - policy issues, it would be a mistake to view energy subsidies as extraneous to those traditional areas of responsibility.

That sum includes all local, state, and federal subsidies as well as federal loans and loan guarantees received by companies on the American Wind Energy Association's board of directors since 2000.

SOLAR: Chinese Gov Vows $ 2B in subsidies as Overcapacity Plagues Industry 7.

There is nothing wrong with alternative energy as long as it is developed privately and without subsidies As to the hazard of petroleum products the good far outweigh the bad, if you do not believe that why don't you try living without the products of the modern energy.

While the ongoing Fijian COP23 in Bonn and the coalition negotiations in Berlin capture media and public attention, Germany quietly released a self - review of their own fossil fuel subsidies as part of the G20 peer review process.

Fishery subsidy value includes «bad» subsidies and fuel subsidies as estimated in Fisheries Center, University of British Columbia, Catching More Bait: A Bottom - Up Re-Estimation of Global Fisheries Subsidies (2nd Version)(Vancouver, BC: The Fisheries Center, 2006), p. 21.

Net exporting countries see these subsidies as an opportunity cost.

It would be useful to have an expanded post on energy subsidies as it is a topic that is frequently misrepresented.

German policymakers indicated last week that they planned to cut once - generous subsidies as much as 29 percent by the end of the month, on top of a 15 percent cut in January, although some details were still being negotiated after protests from the solar industry.

Estimated based on the price - gap approach therefore understate total fossil - fuel subsidies as well as their impact on economic efficiency and trade.

For example, an «energy security fee» of $ 3.50 per barrel of imported oil would raise approximately $ 15 billion annually; reduced fossil fuel subsidies as proposed by the administration could generate upwards of $ 35 billion over ten years; a utilities electricity fee could raise at least $ 2 billion annually, as included in the Kerry - Lieberman American Power Act; and royalties on new offshore continental shelf drilling could raise more than $ 100 billion over twenty years.

You keep resisting ideas on reducing carbon's footprint, including subsidies as for hybrid vehicles.

What Kline essentially proposes to do is allow states and districts to spend federal education subsidies as they see fit without being accountable for providing all children — including those from poor and minority backgrounds — with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

The UK government has played this game well, Setchell says, slowly and carefully cutting subsidies as the market began to stand on its own two feet.

«The governments of oil and gas producing countries are already under pressure to reduce spending on subsidies as revenues shrink,» says Jewell.

Fisher: There is certainly a role for subsidies as we bring new technologies to market.

May's erstwhile rival for the Tory leadership is another Brexiter being given the difficult task of untangling the UK from the European Union, in her case farming subsidies as the new environment secretary.

Hydro - Québec petitioned the Public Service Commission to allow large - scale and incremental new hydropower to get the same subsidies as new solar or wind projects but was rejected.

The Common Agricultural Policy really is mad, giving cash to farmers based on how big their farms are, so the average UK farm makes ten times as much in subsidies as they do in commercial profits.

The problem, Mitchell says, is big sugar is in the business of sugar subsidies as well as growing sugarcane.

NEWS - REVIEW FILE PHOTO Greg Blass handling home heating oil subsidies as Department of Social Services commissioner in 2010.

While the PSC views the subsidies as a way to control carbon emissions as the state moves toward more renewable energy sources, critics believe the Cuomo administration, which supported the plan, was intent on avoiding the job losses that would have come with plant closures in the hard - pressed region where the plants operate.

But I am also linking to a piece I posted this morning on our sister blog — Better D.C. School Food — where it was explained that food service directors do not see a historical basis for parsing out federal subsidies as belonging to one income group of children as opposed to any other groups.

They see all of these subsidies as being intended to support the program.

Subsidies as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) have declined in recent years, as shown in the chart below.

The idea is that miners have enough financial dry powder that they can stomach any drops in the block subsidy as the market tries to determine the new price of bitcoin with supply cut in half.

Most advocate an increase of at least a dollar per meal, though Alice Waters has pushed for a per - meal subsidy as high as $ 5 per meal.

Despite the public outcry against the proposed removal of oil subsidy as from next year, Niger State Governor Babangida Aliyu yesterday wooed traditional rulers to support...

Despite the public outcry against the proposed removal of oil subsidy as from next year, Niger State Governor Babangida Aliyu yesterday wooed traditional rulers to support the Federal Government's plan.

The best they can do is to make the unsubstantiated claim that it is «not unusual for some private placements to cost $ 100,000 or more» and to blame the federal government for not providing as large a subsidy as they would like.

I used subsidy as but one case to represent the whole phenomenon.

There's a good chance you'll qualify for a subsidy as well, which means you'll get a tax benefit that will help pay for your health insurance plan.

You can choose to wait and receive a subsidy as part of your annual refund instead, which would prevent you from ever being in a position where you owe money because you received too much of a subsidy.

The idea is that miners have enough financial dry powder that they can stomach any drops in the block subsidy as the market tries to determine the new price of bitcoin with supply cut in half.

The child is a member of a sibling group being adopted together and at least one sibling group member has been determined eligible for adoption support subsidy as an individual.