Sentence examples for licences to exploit from inspiring English sources

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.

"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.

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

Under it, the state became the "custodian" of all the country's mineral and petroleum resources, with the power to provide licences to public or private companies wishing to exploit those resources, but for no longer than 30 years.

The government was to grant licences on the Crown's behalf to companies wishing to exploit the resources on a case-by-case basis, with licence-holders entitled to compulsory access powers if they cannot negotiate with the owners of land they needed to use to get at the petroleum.

Virtual carrier is a method to exploit the cooperation of licenced (e.g., UMTS, LTE) and unlicensed (Wi-Fi) spectrum to improve network capacity.