Sentences with phrase «vast oil profits»

The aerial message is directed to arriving attendees of the meeting and highlights the Koch Brothers ongoing use of their vast oil profits to push a polluter agenda through campaign contributions, lobbying, and funding fronts groups and think tanks.

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Major energy companies are called «Big Oil» for a reason, as the vast majority of their profits comes from the upstream divisions, which explore and produce oOil» for a reason, as the vast majority of their profits comes from the upstream divisions, which explore and produce oiloil.

Eventually, Rockefeller's oil operations became so vast that he could fund all of his expansion efforts from his own profits, but there was a point in time in which Morgan was mad as hell that he couldn't get an asset override on Rockefeller's wealth, and you better believe there is a take - home lesson in that anecdote.

The Nessergy oil deal shares many similarities with a string of secret deals in Congo's mining sector, where mining rights were bought at knockdown prices by offshore companies and then «flipped» to major international firms for a vast profit.

To be clear, Enbridge is not abandoning its traditional bedrock: over 70 per cent of the company's profits still come from transporting oil through its vast network of pipelines, though Monaco recently indicated this could shrink to 50 per cent as early as 2020 as its other business lines grow.

Faith leaders have stood up to corporate polluters time and again to defend our region from dirty coal and oil projects that make vast profits while harming our communities and dirtying our air, water, land, and climate.

From the activities of the Koch brothers lobbying octopus in opposing any environmental constraints on business, to the vast subsidies the oil industry maintains even as profits are at record levels, to dirty tricks lobbying against meaningful climate action.