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Exxon deal to drill in Russian Arctic - Greenpeace response

Last edited 31 August 2011 at 3:50pm

31 August, 2011

Commenting on Exxon’s deal to drill for oil in the Russian Arctic, Greenpeace senior polar campaigner Ben Ayliffe said:

“Exxon’s staggering Arctic investment is proof that the age of easy oil is coming to an end. The oil industry is being pushed into increasingly remote and marginal areas where costs and risks are commensurately higher, and all to chase the last remaining drops of a fuel that causes pollution, corruption and climate change.”

He continued:

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Why are the oil companies complaining?

Posted by Richardg — 18 April 2011 at 4:41pm - Comments

Cairn's tugs drag icebergs out the way of its Arctic oil drilling rig

Ever since last month’s Budget, oil companies have been complaining about George Osborne’s tax on North Sea oil and gas. Yet many have just announced record profits - boosted considerably by current sky-high oil prices. What do they take us for?

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The Yes Men: sometimes it takes a lie...

Posted by jossc — 4 August 2009 at 12:01pm - Comments

Yay - the Yes Men have a new documentary out! The anti-corporate activists, who specialise in posing as top executives of corporations they hate on TV and at business conferences around the globe, hit the big screen later this week with "The Yes Men Fix the World".

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Exxon admits climate change denial is a problem

Posted by jamie — 29 May 2008 at 10:25am - Comments

It's long been known that energy giant ExxonMobil has been pumping money into organisations and think tanks which have spread confusion and doubt about climate change. Our own ExxonSecrets project has been exposing the links between the company and these outspoken bodies for several years.

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Solving the oil crisis: "We need something like whales, but infinitely more abundant"

Posted by bex — 15 June 2007 at 3:47pm - Comments

Exxon's PR campaign (which seems to run along the lines of "we may fund climate change deniers and oppose Kyoto but we're quite nice really") suffered a slight setback yesterday, when 300 people from the oil industry apparently believed that Exxon's newest fossil fuel was made out of human flesh - belonging to the victims of climate change.

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Exxon: still pumping out lies

Posted by bex — 18 May 2007 at 6:05pm - Comments

Exxon is still lying

Well, despite Exxon's protestations of squeaky-cleanness earlier this year, it looks like climate change skeptics can rest easy in their beds; climate change denial is going to be a lucrative industry for a while yet.

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Bush allies offer scientists $10,000 to attack UN climate report

Last edited 6 February 2007 at 4:40pm

2 February, 2007

Northstar in the Arctic

The Bush Administration's favourite think tank has been offering scientists $10,000 to attack the UN's new climate change report.

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Bush allies offer scientists $10,000 to attack UN climate report

Last edited 2 February 2007 at 9:00am

2 February, 2007

The Bush Administration's favourite think tank has been offering scientists $10,000 to attack the UN's new climate change report.

Greenpeace has acquired a letter from the American Enterprise Institute, an ExxonMobil-funded lobbying outfit, offering the payments for articles that attack the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC's fourth assessment report is published today. It will underpin international negotiations on new emissions targets to succeed the Kyoto agreement, the first phase of which expires in 2012.

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Stop Esso

Last edited 14 December 2006 at 11:48am

Esso funds groups to produce junk science that denies climate change Esso has done more than any other company to stop the world from tackling climate change.

For over a decade, it has tried to sabotage international climate change negotiations and block agreements that would lead to greenhouse gas emissions reductions.

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