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Alex Pourbaix: The Big Oil Spindoctor

Enviromental Defense

This is despite the expense of CCS , its record of failures and underperformance , and recognition from climate and energy experts that we need to phase out fossil fuels to avoid climate disasters. Most CCS is used for “enhanced oil recovery” meaning the carbon captured is pumped back into the ground to push out more oil.

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Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill

Corp Watch

Website Summary Repsol is a fossil fuel exploration company that evolved from a Spanish state venture that was set up in the 1920s. The case was settled in 2014 after Argentina paid Repsol $5 billion. SEC 2006) Repsol Subsidiaries (via U.S. Corporation Repsol S.A. Repsol fined for anti-competitive practices.

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Sea level in the IPCC 6th assessment report (AR6)

Real Climate

This is a pretty clear illustration of how sea level starts to rise slowly; but in the long run, sea-level rise caused by fossil-fuel burning and deforestation in our generation could literally go off the chart and inundate many coastal cities and wipe entire island nations off the map. But first things first. Source: IPCC AR6 Fig.

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. The biggest barrier to climate action in Canada is the oil and gas lobby.

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Solar Panels Are More Carbon-Intensive Than Experts Admit

Environmental Progress

The disruption happened in under a decade, with China’s global share of PV production surging from 14 percent in 2006 to 60 percent by 2013. Like Greta Thunberg, Mariutti comes to the tale as an environmental obsessive passionate about facilitating the world’s transition from fossil fuels to cleaner forms of energy.

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A Toxic Tour Helps Convey What Fenceline Communities Experience

Union of Concerned Scientists

Reading articles and books, or mapping environmental inequities are useful of course, but there is nothing like in-person, trust building experiences to really bring home the realities of living right next to heavily polluting industries, distribution warehouses, busy highways, huge scrapyards, and fossil fuel generating plants.

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Release: Nearly all COP27 sponsors are either major polluters or enablers of fossil fuel industry

Corp Watch

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). USA: Coke, EPA to reach settlement in Clean Air Act ammonia violation charges Shane O'Halloran | Food Engineering Mag | March 19, 2014 EPA alleged 27 violations at a Minute Maid juice processing facility in Michigan.