Sentence examples for licence to exploit from inspiring English sources

"When they talk about workers in these terms, it's a licence to exploit.

When a government awards a licence to exploit fossil fuels under the ground, those decisions represent the transfer of assets from public to private hands worth billions of dollars to the companies who win the day.

Speaking three days after regulators delayed a decision on whether to revoke the licence to exploit the field, the Russian president dismissed TNK-BP's argument that the authorities and Gazprom, the state-owned gas giant, were to blame for Kovykta's slow development.

Britain's BG and Norway's Statoil have won licences to exploit the bulk of the gas found so far.

Foreign investors should sign the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, which would let Africans see what foreign companies pay for licences to exploit natural resources.

Although the price of oil collapsed on world markets last year, forcing oil companies to scale back their drilling plans, there is expected to be considerable interest in licences to exploit Arctic minerals, seen as lucrative assets for the longer term.

Harper pulled Canada out of the Kyoto protocol, gutted the Fisheries Act (our strongest freshwater protection law), and hollowed out our environmental assessment legislation, making it easier for extractive industries to get licences to exploit," said Maude Barlow, a former UN advisor on water and chair of the Council of Canadians.

There was speculation that Russia's state-backed energy group Gazprom had offered to inject the cash necessary to prop up the Cypriot banking system in return for licences to exploit potentially vast gas reserves off the coast of the island.

This isn't a plea for unlimited licence to commercially exploit the creations of others.

Resolution No. 3/1 of 2005 defining the environmental requirements for licences to construct and/or to exploit small stations for waste water treatment.

Europa Oil and Gas, the firm behind the project, said it would withdraw its planning application but would explore alternative sites to exploit the oil licence it holds for the area.