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Two Chevrons Don't Make a Right
Chevron may have paid agents of Nigerian military to attack villagers |
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04 Aug 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Two Chevrons Don't Make a Right Chevron may have paid agents of Nigerian military to attack villagers On Jan. 3, 1999, a number of residents of Opia, Nigeria, visited a Chevron oil rig to demand compensation for fishing gear destroyed by the oil company's operations. On Jan. 4, Nigerian military personnel attacked and burned the villages of Opia and Ikenyan, leaving four villagers dead and at ... |
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| Topics: energy, environmental justice, news, Nigeria, oil, politics (all these topics) |
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Greasing Their Alms
On oil subsidies |
Umbra Fisk |
03 Aug 2005 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, Grist keeps mentioning that the U.S. government gives large subsidies to oil companies, but doesn't go further into what these subsidies are. I can't make a good argument against the government's subsidizing Big Oil if I don't know more about it: Are the subsidies tax breaks, and if so, for what? Are the tax breaks larger than for most other large companies? How biased is our treatment of Big Oil? Christine Hillsboro, Or ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, Big Oil, business, energy, oil, politics (all these topics) |
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Too Many CNOOCs Spoil the Broth
Chinese oil firm withdraws takeover bid for Unocal |
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02 Aug 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Too Many CNOOCs Spoil the Broth Chinese oil firm withdraws takeover bid for Unocal State-owned Chinese oil company CNOOC has announced the withdrawal of its $18.5 billion offer for Unocal, clearing the way for rival bidder Chevron Corp. -- which, we rush to assure you, is safely 'merican owned -- to purchase America's ninth-largest producer of oil. CNOOC, China's largest offshore oil and natural gas company, state ... |
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| Topics: China, energy, news, oil, United States (all these topics) |
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Lawsuits
Lawsuit shield for MTBE makers dropped from energy bill |
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25 Jul 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Lawsuits Lawsuit shield for MTBE makers dropped from energy bill One of the last remaining roadblocks to the passage of the energy bill has reportedly been removed: According to Senate Energy Committee Chair Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), a provision to shield manufacturers of groundwater-polluting fuel additive MTBE from lawsuits has been dropped from the bill. A similar meas ... |
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| Topics: energy, news, oil, politics, toxics, United States (all these topics) |
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The Axis of Oil
China gets pushy about finding oil and gas supplies outside Mideast |
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15 Jul 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Axis of Oil China gets pushy about finding oil and gas supplies outside Mideast Historians cataloguing the unintended consequences of the Iraq war can add another to their list. Until 2003, China had been wooing Saddam Hussein, hoping to lay claim to some of Iraq's undeveloped oil reserves. But the U.S.-led war, perceived by China's leaders as a bid to secure geopolitical hegemony in the Middle East, KO'd th ... |
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| Topics: business, China, energy, Iraq, news, oil (all these topics) |
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Exx Marks the Boycott
Activists kick off big boycott of ExxonMobil |
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13 Jul 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Exx Marks the Boycott Activists kick off big boycott of ExxonMobil Spelling-impaired activists at Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, MoveOn.org, and nine other enviro and progressive groups have launched a nationwide "Exxpose Exxon" consumer boycott campaign. While the coalition doesn't expect to have a big impact on ExxonMobil's bottom line, it hopes to change the public's perception of the ... |
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| Topics: business, energy, news, non-government organizations, oil (all these topics) |
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CNOOC-ered
Bush security adviser helped firm land lobbying gig for Chinese oil co. |
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12 Jul 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| CNOOC-ered Bush security adviser helped firm land lobbying gig for Chinese oil co. The bid by state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation to purchase U.S. oil and gas producer Unocal has raised hackles among some national-security types. So it may seem odd that James C. Langdon Jr., the chair of President Bush's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board -- a group with security clearance greater than even ... |
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| Topics: business, China, energy, news, oil, politics (all these topics) |
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A Shot Across the Mao
State-controlled Chinese oil company makes big bid for America's Unocal |
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24 Jun 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| A Shot Across the Mao State-controlled Chinese oil company makes big bid for America's Unocal China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), a state-controlled Chinese oil company, is making an $18.5 billion bid to take over California-based oil and gas firm Unocal, which has extensive Asian operations. Rival bidder Chevron warns that China will have the power to raise energy prices for U.S. consumers if CNOOC prevai ... |
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| Topics: business, China, energy, news, oil (all these topics) |
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My Own Private Saudi Arabia
Energy execs beg Congress to let them dig up the West for oil shale |
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24 Jun 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| My Own Private Saudi Arabia Energy execs beg Congress to let them dig up the West for oil shale "We can safely say of our future with regard to oil and gas, it has yet to see its brightest days," said Rep. James Gibbons (R-Nev.) in a House subcommittee meeting yesterday. We know what you're thinking: What the ... ? Well, apparently Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming are sitting on top of lots and ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, energy, news, oil, politics, Utah, Wyoming (all these topics) |
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One Step Forward, Two Scoots Back
Updates from yesterday's Senate energy-bill debate |
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16 Jun 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| One Step Forward, Two Scoots Back Updates from yesterday's Senate energy-bill debate Highlights of yesterday's energy-bill proceedings: The Senate voted to double the amount of ethanol to be added to the nation's gasoline supply by 2012, from 4 billion to 8 billion gallons. Florida Sens. Mel Martinez (R) and Bill Nelson (D) successfully blocked attempts to end the congressional moratorium on oil and gas drilling near ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, news, oil, politics (all these topics) |
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Put a Liar in Your Tank
White House official who edited climate reports moves to Exxon |
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15 Jun 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Put a Liar in Your Tank White House official who edited climate reports moves to Exxon Philip Cooney, the White House official (and former oil-industry lobbyist) recently outed for watering down government climate-change reports, has left his position in the Bush administration to take a new job at ... wait for it ... ExxonMobil. Now, we know what you're thinking, but you've got it all wrong. His sudden de ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, energy, news, oil, politics (all these topics) |
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Going down with the ship
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David Roberts |
14 Jun 2005 |
Gristmill |
| Lee Raymond, chairman and chief executive of Exxon Mobil, has decided that global warming is bunk and that his company is not going to waste time or money funding renewable energy. Openly and unapologetically, the world's No. 1 oil company disputes the notion that fossil fuels are the main cause of global warming. Along with the Bush administration, Exxon opposes the Kyoto accord and the very idea of capping global-warming emissions. Congress is ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, energy, oil (all these topics) |
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Who's Minding the Shore?
Senate measures threaten to open U.S. coasts to drilling |
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13 Jun 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Who's Minding the Shore? Senate measures threaten to open U.S. coasts to drilling The battle to open up U.S. coastal waters to oil and gas drilling is escalating, with supporters in Congress pushing a number of pro-drilling bills and amendments. An energy-bill provision up for debate this week would mandate the first complete oil and gas inventory of all U.S. waters. And Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La. ... |
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| Topics: energy, mining and drilling, news, oceans, oil, politics (all these topics) |
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Don't Be Such a Prudhoe
American oil supplies well past peak |
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10 Jun 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Don't Be Such a Prudhoe American oil supplies well past peak America's domestic oil supplies are tapping out. At Alaska's massive Prudhoe Bay field, output has dropped nearly 75 percent since 1987 highs. With mega-developing nations India and China gobbling up the world's spare oil supply and U.S. demand still rising, engineers are now going after poorer grades of oil once considered uneconomical. But that gunky ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, energy, news, oil, United States (all these topics) |
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Just a Viscous Rumor
Kenneth Deffeyes' Beyond Oil forecasts a fast-approaching petroleum peak |
Jennifer Weeks |
07 Jun 2005 |
Arts and Minds |
| Mark your calendar: annual world production of crude oil will reach its peak this coming Thanksgiving, Nov. 24. At least, that's the tongue-half-in-cheek prediction of Kenneth Deffeyes, who starts his latest book by suggesting that readers stop and give thanks for a century of plentiful supplies. Beyond Oil by Kenneth Deffeyes, Hill & Wang, 202 pgs., 2005. After the Pri ... |
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| Topics: energy, oil, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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I Will Singh, Singh a New Song
To feed energy demand, India gets friendly with old adversaries |
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07 Jun 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| I Will Singh, Singh a New Song To feed energy demand, India gets friendly with old adversaries India's foreign policy, like that of most every major economic power, is increasingly driven by its need for oil. The globe's fifth-largest consumer economy, India already imports 70 percent of its oil, and energy demand is expected to nearly double from 2002 levels by 2030. So the country is pursuing arrangements once though ... |
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| Topics: business, energy, India, news, oil (all these topics) |
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Suburbia, oil, and preferences
Why can't we change our oil-sucking land-use preferences? |
David Roberts |
06 Jun 2005 |
Gristmill |
| The other day I expressed disappointment at Kevin Drum's fifth peak oil post -- the one where he lays out his recommendations for oil policy. In my inimitably oblique and unfocused way, I was simply trying to say that I wish he'd been more imaginative. If nothing else, peak oil is going to be a major inflection point in our collective history. It's a sharp turn in the road, and we can't see clearly around the bend. The stakes are huge, and call for a commensurate ... |
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| Topics: energy, oil, placemaking, sprawl, urban planning (all these topics) |
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Darth Subsidious
Exxon says it won't dabble in clean energy -- too many darn subsidies |
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31 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Darth Subsidious Exxon says it won't dabble in clean energy -- too many darn subsidies With oil prices soaring, Exxon is perfectly happy pumping and refining the black stuff, thanks. Despite persistent pressure from shareholder groups and activists, the company says it has no plans to invest in clean energies like solar and wind. You see, solar and wind are still a small sliver of the energy pie and they -- gasp! -- rely on fe ... |
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| Topics: business, energy, news, oil (all these topics) |
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Tar Wars
Canadian tar sands becoming top oil source, despite environmental harm |
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23 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Tar Wars Canadian tar sands becoming top oil source, despite environmental harm With conventional oil reserves declining around the world, all eyes are turning to Canada, where tar sands in the north contain 175 billion barrels of proven oil reserves -- almost in the neighborhood of Saudi Arabia's 262 billion and far more than the Arctic Refuge's 10 billion. Getting saleable oil from tar sands is an expensi ... |
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| Topics: Canada, energy, mining and drilling, news, oil (all these topics) |
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Friends With Benefits
Saudi-owned company set to profit from proposed MTBE liability shield |
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17 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Friends With Benefits Saudi-owned company set to profit from proposed MTBE liability shield OK, kids, follow the bouncing red ball: The Republican energy bill, pending in the Senate, is advertised as a way to gain independence from Saudi Arabian oil (boing!). Part of the energy bill, included at the insistence of Texas Rep. Tom DeLay (R), is a provision shielding makers of groundwater-polluti ... |
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| Topics: business, energy, news, oil, politics, Saudi Arabia, toxics (all these topics) |
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Wait -- They Drilled for Gas With a Nuclear Bomb?!
Oil company hopes to drill near nuclear-blast cavity in Colorado |
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09 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Wait -- They Drilled for Gas With a Nuclear Bomb?! Oil company hopes to drill near nuclear-blast cavity in Colorado Some 36 years ago, the Atomic Energy Commission and a Texas oil company put a nuclear bomb in an 8,000-foot shaft on Colorado's energy-rich Western Slope and detonated it, hoping to reach a reserve of natural gas lying beneath the subterranean rock. T ... |
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| Topics: business, Colorado, energy, mining and drilling, natural gas, news, nuclear power, oil (all these topics) |
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Like Apples and Radioactive Oranges
Claims that nuclear energy can reduce oil use are largely hokum |
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09 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Like Apples and Radioactive Oranges Claims that nuclear energy can reduce oil use are largely hokum President Bush hearts nuclear -- or in the argot of the day, nucular -- claiming that a boost in nuclear energy could reduce oil imports and help America reach the Shangri-la of "energy independence." But people who, um, know stuff about nuclear energy are highly skeptical. There are some ways that nuclear could m ... |
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| Topics: energy, news, nuclear power, oil (all these topics) |
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Play Economisty for Me
U.K.-based weekly Economist exhaustively analyzes global oil situation |
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04 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Play Economisty for Me U.K.-based weekly Economist exhaustively analyzes global oil situation Market-lovin' U.K. weekly The Economist has a cover package on oil this week. The major topic, of course, is the recent spike in oil prices. The grumpy Economist editors are bothered by what they consider some pervasive myths. First, "energy independence" is a chimera as long as we're burning oil; oil is fungible and price h ... |
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| Topics: business, energy, news, oil (all these topics) |
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They Did It Norway
Norway's high gas and auto taxes lead to lower gas consumption |
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02 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| They Did It Norway Norway's high gas and auto taxes lead to lower gas consumption Americans, who view cheap oil as a divine birthright and throw a tantrum when gas prices exceed $2, would surely view Norway as a strange and alien land if they, ahem, knew anything about it. Despite the Scandinavian country's huge oil reserves -- it is the world's third-largest exporter of black gold -- gas prices hover around $6.66 ... |
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| Topics: energy, news, Norway, oil, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Will & Disgrace
Louisiana environmental advocate forced out of job by state attorney general |
Amanda Griscom Little |
28 Apr 2005 |
Muckraker |
| Willie Fontenot (center) surrounded by ExxonMobil security guards. Photo: Stephen C. Kowal. After scoping out an ExxonMobil refinery in Baton Rouge last month, Willie Fontenot, a community liaison officer for the Louisiana attorney general's office for 27 years, found himself faced with the option of forced retirement or getting the boot. A longtime environment ... |
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| Topics: energy, environmental justice, health, Louisiana, Muckraker, oil, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics) |
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