Sentences with phrase «subsidies from the government which»

And the industries and companies that produce unhealthy foods such as sugar, beef, dairy, white flour, etc. often receive subsidies from the government which make their costs much lower than the cost of produce.

Not exact matches

U.S. plane manufacturer Boeing, which had initially complained that Bombardier was benefitting from unfair subsidies by the Canadian government, had only asked for an 80 % levy.

As a young company, Gildan benefited from being in Canada, receiving government subsidies, and, when it hit a rough patch during the»90s, even borrowing from Quebec's labour - sponsored fund, the Fonds de solidarité FTQ, which invested $ 3.5 million in Gildan shares starting in 1996 and lent the company up to $ 30 million in debentures.

Independents want cuts in government spending and entitlement reform, but just not those cuts and reforms in things like education and Medicare and various middle class subsidies from which they immediately benefit.

Tropical Traditions also restored traditional methods of producing coconut oil by hand, and also worked to provide consumer access to other traditional products that had fallen out of favor in the U.S. market, but for which there was a demand from health - conscious consumers interested in sourcing food outside the corporate commodity food supply kept cheap by government subsidies.

The price of what small sums will be given to Ukraine from the EU or, more likely the IMF, will be systemic reform — energy price rises, the ending of state subsidies for industries, and the cutting of state social benefits (among others), all of which will be politically catastrophic for whatever government introduces them.

Turning to the spare room subsidy, in a week in which DWP Secretary of State Iain Duncan Smith had announced that foster carers and people whose teenage children were in the army would be excluded from it, he said that it had been clear from day one that the government's intention was that they wouldn't be affected by this.

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The list also reveals that Cameron recently dined with Alexander Temerko, chairman of Offshore Group Newcastle, which is set to benefit from the government's plan to increase subsidies for offshore wind power generation.

So... while (1) subsidies for businesses (like the oil companies» outrageous subsidies) are a CREDIT or GAIN from the perspective of businesses, they most certainly can be called (2) handouts or foregone income or SPENDING from the government's perspective... which is a DEBIT or LOSS for the government.

On May 20, 2015, nine days BEFORE the government was inaugurated, I laid out «Policy Prescriptions» - diversification of production, government revenue, and exports; imperative of a strong and credible economic team and cabinet; targeting «opportunity sectors» (solid minerals, refining and petrochemicals, a new and realistic fiscal regime for upstream oil and gas, private sector investments in power and infrastructure, agro-processing, retail and construction); freeing «up resources from downstream petroleum sector deregulation» emphasizing «an economic reality in which hard decisions including some previously rebuffed by the opposition will have to be taken» a clear reference to the petrol subsidy which government waited a full year before countenancing the critical decision!

One of the charges read, «That you, Adegbite Adetoye and Ponnle Abiodun whilst being directors of Origin Oil and Gas Limited on or about the 8th day of October 2010 to December, 2011 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and with intent to defraud, conspired to obtain the sum of N735, 132, 076.18 From the Federal Government of Nigeria under false pretence that the said sum represented subsidy accruing to you, whereas the sum is above the actual subsidy payment for the importation of 15,000 mt of premium motor spirit (petrol) which you claim to have purchased from Vitol SA and imported into Nigeria through MT Silverie which representation you knew to be false.&raFrom the Federal Government of Nigeria under false pretence that the said sum represented subsidy accruing to you, whereas the sum is above the actual subsidy payment for the importation of 15,000 mt of premium motor spirit (petrol) which you claim to have purchased from Vitol SA and imported into Nigeria through MT Silverie which representation you knew to be false.&rafrom Vitol SA and imported into Nigeria through MT Silverie which representation you knew to be false.»

The government's grandly entitled Electricity Market Reform turned out to be a mechanism to deliver a hidden subsidy for nuclear which they had given repeated assurances would never be provided from public funds,

Many firms seek financial help from China, which is pushing hard on green energy technology and offering bigger subsidies than the U.S. government

But corn's main deleterious effects come from high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), which is used in so many processed foods that it's now almost impossible to avoid thanks in large part to the collusion between the food industry and government that serves to provide lavish subsidies to grow corn, which manipulate normal market forces.

After all, Brown knows full well that any attempt to withhold federal funding will be challenged by Golden State's influential congressional delegation (including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Dianne Feinstein); the former state attorney general is also likely betting that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last year on the Affordable Healthcare Act, which effectively makes it impossible for the federal government to withhold subsidies from states for not implementing new regulations, can also be applied to what the administration can do on the education policy front.

On the other hand, so called «renewables», wind, solar, and other «green energy» technologies do get actual «subsidies», i.e. sums of money from the government, which does come from our tax dollars.

It is hardly surprising that such reductions in subsidies would lead to «protests» and «outrage» from the solar industry; an earlier Washington Post article by Faiola in November 2009 took note of the fact that even with subsidies in place, average German families had a hard time adopting solar on a household level since they «can't afford the initial cost, which runs between $ 8,000 to $ 20,000 even after generous government rebates.

The unit, which BP has been scaling back since 2008, is the latest sun energy business to fall victim to rampant competition from China, falling prices, overcapacity and lower government subsidies on which the industry still depends.

Since the ESA forbids the Federal Government from funding any activities which might harm a listed species, why not sue to prevent the ridiculous Federal subsidies on Ethanol, on the grounds that the production, distribution, and use of ethanol have a net negative impact on carbon dioxide emissions when compared with petroleum products, thus accelerating global warming and further endangering the polar bears.

Laissez - faire (Listeni / ˌlɛseɪˈfɛər - /, French: [lɛsefɛʁ](listen)-RRB- is an economic environment in which transactions between private parties are free from tariffs, government subsidies, and enforced monopolies, with only enough government regulations sufficient to protect property rights against theft and aggression.

Decreasing or eliminating government subsidies to fossil fuels, which total $ 300 billion annually worldwide, can move the energy economy away from heavy reliance on carbon - intensive fossil fuels.

Obama and the Federal government need to remove themselves from the energy market, which subsidies and regulation have turned into a dysfunctional sector of the economy.

Ohio's two nuclear plants could soon be forced to close due to their exclusion from government and corporate subsidies for solar and wind, including Amazon's policy, which is using Ohio's renewable energy credits to meet its goal.

George Osborne demands massive cuts to windfarm subsidies PM's «greenest government ever» claim undermined by chancellor's move, which follows pressure from Tory MPs

With a view to promoting renewable energy in Japan, electric utilities have voluntarily purchased electricity generated from renewable energy, while the national government has adopted the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) Law, under which local governments have granted subsidies.

Government subsidies in solar, which was around $ 24 billion from 2014 to 2018, helped lower costs by at least 10 percent a year.

Faced with dwindling profits from oil exports and a fiscal deficit, the government was forced to slash fuel subsidies in May 2008 — which at the time consumed 15 % of GDP.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

This policy document explores ways of aligning government subsidies and other fiscal instruments with the objectives of REDD +, which aims to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.

They include everything from direct subsidies to tax loopholes and government spending on infrastructure on which fossil fuel industries depend.

A lot of money goes into promoting the concern about climate change — $ 2Billion / yr from the government for «climate science» plus another $ 8B or so for subsidies, plus $ 400Million / year from foundations, plus corporate money (e.g. — Chesapeake's $ 25 Million to the Sierra Club to kill coal (which Sierra has now turned against natural gas).