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[Link] Shell and Vitol accused of prolonging Ukraine war with sanctions ‘loophole’

Read: 20/2/2023 www.theguardian.com

Oil company Shell and energy trader Vitol have been accused of prolonging the war in Ukraine by exploiting a “loophole” in the EU sanctions regime to bring products derived from Russian oil into Europe through Turkey.

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[Link] Joe Manchin Wants to Let Companies Keep Polluting in Private, Thanks

Read: 5/4/2022 www.vice.com

Should companies have to explain their role in causing climate change? There’s a simple answer, according to Sen. Joe Manchin: Hell no. 

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[Link] Keystone XL pipeline developers seek $15 billion for cancellation in one of biggest trade appeals against U.S. ever

Read: 24/11/2021 financialpost.com

Developers of Keystone XL are seeking to recoup more than US$15 billion in damages connected to President Joe Biden’s decision to yank a permit for the border-crossing oil pipeline even after construction began. With a request for arbitration filed Monday, Calgary-based TC Energy Corp.

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[Link] Australia’s only working carbon capture and storage project fails to meet target

Read: 14/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Australia’s only working carbon capture and storage project in Western Australia has failed to meet its target to lock away greenhouse gases from a major gas processing plant.

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[Link] Twiggy Stardust: the man who sold, er saved, the world

Read: 14/11/2021 www.afr.com

David Bowie concealed one last alter-ego: an iron ore magnate and global warming messiah simply known as Andrew.

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[Link] US oil giants top list of lobby offenders holding back climate action

Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

ExxonMobil and Chevron are the world’s most obstructive organisations when it comes to governments setting climate policies, according to research into the “prolific and highly sophisticated” lobbying ploys used by the fossil fuel industry.

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[Link] Even Republicans Can Be Convinced That Big Oil’s to Blame for Climate Change

Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. What does it take to convince a Republican that oil and gas companies lied about the existence of climate change and are responsible for contributing to it?

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[Link] Big tobacco got caught in a lie by Congress. Now it’s the oil industry’s turn

Read: 17/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

Two weeks from today, Darren Woods will face a potential doomsday moment before the US Congress. As the CEO of ExxonMobil, Woods was paid $15.6m last year to run the richest, most powerful private oil company in history.

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[Link] Queensland police refuse to remove traditional owners occupying Adani’s coalmine site

Read: 5/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

Queensland police have told a group of First Nations people occupying the site of Adani’s Carmichael coalmine for the past five weeks that they have no intention of removing them from the area “at this time”.

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[Link] An Oil Company Paid Police $2 Million to Defend Its Pipeline From Protests

Read: 9/8/2021 www.vice.com

Calgary-based oil giant Enbridge set up a fund called the Public Safety Escrow Trust in May, 2020 as part of its permitting process for the Line 3 pipeline route, which carries tar sands oil from Edmonton, Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin.

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