Posts Tagged ‘oil’
#NoDrillingWhereWereLiving: The Fight for Oil and Gas Operation Setbacks
Take a look at the two buildings in the photos. What do they have in common? Both are in Los Angeles? ✅ Both on a major thoroughfare called Pico Boulevard? ✅ Both in retail/residential neighborhoods? ✅ How about: Both are roofless, and hide active oil wells behind their walls? Yes, this is true! In addition,…
Read moreRex Tillerson must not be confirmed — #ExxonKnew
Rex Tillerson is an ExxonMobil oilman. For years, he has questioned the reality of climate change. Now, as Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, he refuses to admit his complicity in the corporation’s disinformation campaign. Call your senators today to stop his confirmation.
Read moreExxon Must Come Clean in Massachusetts
Exxon must release documents related to its knowledge of climate change, representing progress for the state as well as for the national ExxonKnew campaign. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (photo) says the court order “affirms our longstanding authority to investigate fraud.”
Read moreThe Arctic is safer today
Here’s some very good news for the planet—and for Alaska—though not for Shell. The Guardian reports that the US government is canceling some offshore leases and imposing stricter conditions on Arctic drilling. As a result, Shell and other oil companies are unlikely to pursue further exploration in that part of the world. The Guardian: Barack Obama…
Read moreDon't let Congress lift the oil export ban
As oil prices “tank” (ahem) due to oversupply (thanks fracking!), the divestment movement chugs along, inflating the carbon bubble. This is all bad news for Big Oil. Feeling the pinch, the oil companies have come up with a brilliant idea for restoring lost revenue: Get the Congress (which it happens to own) to repeal the crude…
Read moreShell games in Alaska
In Alaska, there’s good news and there’s bad news. The good news first: last week Royal Dutch Shell shut down its drilling rig in the Chukchi Sea and gave up its immediate dream of a great Arctic oil bonanza. After seven billion dollars of failed investment in a single dry well, Shell has now followed the lead…
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