Sentences with phrase «vast oil wealth»

The billionaire Koch brothers have long claimed that they have no direct connection to the Tea Party, denying that their vast oil wealth is directly funding corporate front groups like Americans For Prosperity, the key organizers of the fake grassroots Tea Party movement.

Proponents say the large investment in a pilot effort is important, to prove that Alberta has both the technology and geology to address the CO2 emissions that have marred the exploitation of its vast oil wealth.

Venezuela's once promising economy has been destroyed by successive hard - left governments, despite the nation's vast oil wealth.

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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.

Mansour's personal wealth ran into the tens of billions of pounds due in part to his control of vast oil reserves in the UAE and numerous other investments, including a stake in Virgin Galactic and Sky News Arabia.

Everything Money Can Buy 05 August 2011 The vast wealth of the oil - rich Arab states is creating opportunities for scientists who can stand the heat.

The Rockefellers, who made their vast fortune on oil, and other philanthropies and high - wealth individuals on Monday will announce pledges to divest a total of $ 50 billion from fossil fuel investments.

Talks likely to continue, but slowly Japan, meanwhile, focused on ways to curb more emissions by midcentury instead of by 2020; Saudi Arabia, like India, insisted that the burden of doing more to cut emissions falls squarely on the shoulders of industrialized countries — which, within the world of U.N. climate talks, does not include Saudi Arabia, despite its wealth and vast oil resources; and Qatar, which is hosting the next major climate conference but which has historically played a quiet role in the talks, did not offer a submission.

Because the constraints on corruption were so toothless, vast state wealth — especially oil, gas and mineral wealth — was transferred in the mid-1990s into private hands, creating the so - called oligarchs of the new Russia.

However, when the oil and gas and coal industries start pulling their vast wealth out of the coffers of big banking, what will the banking industry have left?

Likewise, Norway's sovereign wealth fund is considering divesting from oil and gas, despite the fund being supported by the country's vast oil reserves.

If you were in the business of being a coal, oil, and manufacturing tycoon, chances are you'd be making the same moves — using a tiny sliver of your vast wealth to protect the forces that would prevent that wealth from becoming even more vast.