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Exxon forecasts 2050 oil demand to match today's, 25% above BP estimate | Reuters

2024-08-26 in Reuters

Exxon Mobil said on Monday it expects crude demand to stay above 100 million barrels per day (bpd) through 2050, similar to today's levels, a forecast 25% higher than top European rival BP .

Tagged under: Oil Industry | Exxon | BP

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Exxon (XOM) Sees Net Zero Missed With 2050 Oil Demand as High as Today - Bloomberg

2024-08-26 in Bloomberg

Exxon Mobil Corp. forecasts global oil demand in 2050 will be the same — or even slightly higher — than current levels, putting efforts to reach net zero carbon emissions by mid-century well out of reach.

Tagged under: Oil Industry | Net Zero | Exxon

Exxon forecasts 2050 oil demand to match today's, 25% above BP estimate | Reuters

2024-08-26 in Reuters

Exxon Mobil said on Monday it expects crude demand to stay above 100 million barrels per day (bpd) through 2050, similar to today's levels, a forecast 25% higher than top European rival BP .

Tagged under: Oil Industry | Exxon | BP

‘Massive disinformation campaign’ is slowing global transition to green energy

2024-08-08 in The Guardian

UN says a global ‘backlash’ against climate action is being stoked by fossil fuel companies

Tagged under: Oil Industry | Fossil Fuels | Disinformation and Misinformation | Energy | Renewable Energy

Oil companies sold the public on a fake climate solution — and swindled taxpayers out of billions

2024-08-08 by in Canada's National Observer

The fossil fuel industry’s carbon capture bamboozle, explained.

Tagged under: Disinformation and Misinformation | Oil Industry | Fossil Fuels | Carbon Capture and Storage

Oil companies sold the public on a fake climate solution — and swindled taxpayers out of billions

2024-07-29 by in Vox

Oil and gas companies know carbon capture and storage isnt a climate change solution, per documents, whistleblowers and public comments.

Oil Companies Alignment with Net Zero

2024-03-25 (or before) in Carbon Tracker Initiative

Tagged under: Exxon | BP | Oil Industry

US energy industry methane emissions are triple what government thinks, study finds

2024-03-13 in ABC News

A new study calculates that U.S. oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times the amount of the potent heat-trapping gas methane as the government thinks

Tagged under: Oil Industry | USA | Methane

CAP AND WAIT. CLIMATE FOES GET THEIR DELAYS IN WA | by Mary Liz Thomson | Mar, 2024 | Medium

2024-03-11 in Medium

Do climate programs like Washington’s cap and investment law automatically raise the price of gas? No, but mainstream media usually frames the story that way. Why do we have to accept this logic? We shouldn’t, it’s not even true. But this thinking is on track to take down Washington State’s newest carbon tax. After ten years of wrangling the Climate Commitment Act (CCA) was passed as a market-based program to reduce carbon pollution and achieve the greenhouse gas limits agreed to in state law. The program held it’s first auction last spring in 2023.

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Top Fossil Fuel Ad Ban Critic Runs Group That Got $450K from Oil Company

2024-03-11 by in DeSmog

The Indian Resource Council has received large contributions from Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., disclosures reviewed by DeSmog reveal.

Tagged under: Lobbying | Oil Industry | Canada | Fossil Fuels

Oil industry has sought to block state backing for green tech since 1960s

2024-03-08 in The Guardian

Research shows industry lobbying against support for solar panels and electric cars while enjoying subsidies itself

Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Lobbying | Oil Industry

‘Explosive growth’ in petrochemical production poses risks to human health

2024-03-06 in The Guardian

New report warns of deadly health risks from fossil fuel pollution, including alarming rise in neurodevelopmental issues

Tagged under: Fossil Fuels | Oil Industry | Pollution | Health

Jeremy Hunt’s net zero target claims criticised by climate advisers

2024-01-07 in The Guardian

Climate Change Committee tells chancellor issuing new oil and gas licenses is ‘inconsistent’ with government’s temperature goals

The Oil and Gas Industry in Net Zero Transitions – Analysis - IEA

2023-11-23 (or before) in IEA ��International Energy Agency

The Oil and Gas Industry in Net Zero Transitions - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

Tagged under: Oil Industry | Net Zero

How to Defeat the Fossil Goliath?

2023-06-11 (or before) by in Films for Action

The KEY question, I'm asked by students when I guest lecture about the #ClimateCrisis is 'but what can we do?' So I recently rewrote my materials to try & tackle that question head on. Feel free...

Tagged under: Oil Industry | Activism

Time to pay the piper: Fossil fuel companies’ reparations for climate damages

2023-05-25 (or before) in Cell Press

The calls for climate reparations are rapidly growing in the scientific literature, among climate movements, and in the policy debate. This article proposes morally based reparations for oil, gas, and coal producers, presents a methodological approach for their implementation, and quantifies reparations for the top twenty-one fossil fuel companies.

Tagged under: Oil Industry

Big Oil Helped Shape Stanford’s Latest Climate-Research Focus

2023-05-07 (or before) in Archive Today - web archive

Tagged under: Oil Industry

Oilsands waste is collected in sprawling toxic ponds. To clean them up, oil companies plan to pour water on them

2023-04-15 (or before) by in Breaking News - Headlines & Top Stories | The Star

The oil industry’s strategy to deal with a trillion litres of toxic goop is centred on a process even the Alberta Energy Regulator calls unproven. One top scientist describes the claim that water capping will return land to a natural state an an “impossible fantasy.”

Tagged under: Pollution | Oil Industry | Canada

Big Oil v the World 1 - Denial

2023-04-09 (or before) in YouTube

The story of what the fossil fuel industry knew about climate change more than four decades ago. Scientists who worked for the biggest oil company in the wor...

Tagged under: Climate Change | Oil Industry | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation

Oil excavation in Africa’s Kavango region must be stopped to meet world climate promises | The Independent

2021-05-15 (or before) in The Independent

The climate column: Oil play in the Kavango region of Namibia and Botswana will affect climate targets, endanger indigenous communities and could be disastrous for conservation

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2020-02-24 (or before) in Instagram

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Tagged under: Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Oil Industry | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation

Teck Resources pulling application for Frontier oil sands mine - The Globe and Mail

2020-02-23 in The Globe and Mail: Canadian, World, Politics and Business News & Analysis

The Teck mine had already passed a lengthy regulatory review and Ottawa was expected to decide this week whether to approve the project

Tagged under: Oil Industry | Canada | Climate Change | Economics | Finance

Government Agency Warns Global Oil Industry Is on the Brink of a Meltdown

2020-02-04 in VICE

We are not running out of oil, but it's becoming uneconomical to exploit it‚Äîanother reason we need to move to renewables as quickly as possible.

Oil companies aren’t making big investments in a low-carbon future yet | GreenBiz

2020-01-10 (or before) in Greenbiz

But some companies are showing an interest in it.

Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Oil Industry

Big oil asks government to protect its Texas facilities from climate change - CBS News

2020-01-05 (or before) in CBS News

Texas Gulf Coast project would shield petroleum industry, which is blamed for contributing to global warming and now wants safeguards against the consequences

Tagged under: Global Warming | Lobbying | Oil Industry | Texas | Climate Change

Big Oil on Trial: Where the Climate Lawsuits Currently Stand

2019-12-09 (or before) in Greentech Media | Clean Tech & Renewable Energy News

Tagged under: Oil Industry | Litigation

Opinion: Green energy will gut more than the oil market

2019-11-20 (or before) in Detroit News

Tagged under: Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Oil Industry | Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation

Fossil fuel big five 'spent €251m lobbying EU' since 2010

2019-10-24 by Sandra Laville in The Guardian

Report comes amid calls for set up of firewall to protect politics from industry influence

Rise of renewables may see off oil firms decades earlier than they think

2019-10-14 by Jillian Ambrose in The Guardian