Immediately repeal existing tax breaks for fossil fuel exploration and production, and halt efforts to extend and expand tax credits for
unconventional fossil fuel production technologies, like carbon capture and storage and enhanced oil recovery.
Not exact matches
Eliminate (100 %) all unsustainable tax incentives: Tax exemptions, subsidies, regulatory frameworks and other incentives are redirected towards sustainable, knowledge and employment - intensive sectors and local sustainable value chains and away from unsustainable activities, including industrial fisheries, forestry and agriculture, risky and otherwise unsustainable forms of energy
production like
fossil fuels, nuclear energy,
unconventional energy
production / franking and industrial bioenergy, extractive industries and chemical industry
Since the peak of crude oil
production a decade ago, the
fossil fuel industry has been forced to resort to costly and
unconventional methods of extraction — arctic drilling and shale gas fracking among them — giving rise to unprecedented economic and environmental hazards.
Contributions are sought on (1) what
unconventional sources mean for the theory of peak oil; (2) what an explosion of new
fossil fuel emissions might mean for global climate change; and (3) what geological, economic, or policy forces might limit
fossil fuel production.
The draft of the law states that exploration as well as
production of «
unconventional fossil fuels» is forbidden.
Gilles, It is by no means clear what
unconventional sources of
fossil fuel will cost to extract once
production ramps up.