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Rex Tillerson Is Big Oil Personified. Damage He Can Do Is Immense

January 12, 2017 Bill McKibben, www.theguardian.com Educate! Exxon, Oil

By Bill McKibben for The Guardian - In one of the futile demonstrations that marked the run-up to the Iraq war, I saw a woman with a sign that read “How Did Our Oil End Up Under Their Sand?” In nine words she managed to sum up a great deal of American foreign policy, back at least as far as the 1953 coup that overthrew Mossadegh in Iran and helped toss the Middle East into its still-boiling cauldron. If the Senate approves Rex Tillerson after his testimony on Wednesday, they’ll be continuing in that inglorious tradition – in fact, they’ll be taking it to a new height, and cutting out the diplomats who have traditionally played the middleman role.

Oil Change International Statement On First Morning Of Tillerson Hearing

January 12, 2017 David Hasemyer, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Climate Change, Exxon, Oil, Rex Tillerson

By David Hasemyer for Inside Climate News - “Rex Tillerson seems determined to run US foreign policy like he ran Exxon: deny, evade, and even lie, in order to defend power and certainly without regard to any 'moral compass'. "The first morning of Rex Tillerson’s testimony showed that Rex Tillerson’s 41 years at ExxonMobil have prepared him for one thing only: to be CEO of ExxonMobil. Tillerson filibustered, dodged, and floundered through questions about Aleppo, Russia, and other imminent global threats. He appears to have lied under oath about Exxon’s lobbying against Russian sanctions. The Boy Scouts should demand that Tillerson return his Honesty Badge.

Mexican Government Faces Crisis Of Legitimacy

January 9, 2017 Kim Brown, www.therealnews.com Resist! Elections, Mexico, Oil, Taxes

By Kim Brown for The Real News Network. During the past week, protests took place throughout Mexico in reaction to a 20% price increase for gasoline. The protests have so far resulted in four deaths and the arrests of over 700 people. Also, over 300 stores are said to have been looted throughout the country. The gasoline price increase is part of a plan by President Enrique Peña Nieto to eliminate subsidies in the wake of the partial privatization of the country's oil industry. On Wednesday, President Peña Nieto vowed to continue with the price increases despite the protests. Well, joining us today from Mexico City to analyze the situation in Mexico, we're joined by John Ackerman. John is a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He's also Editor-in-Chief of the Mexican Law Review and a columnist with both La Jornada newspaper and Proceso magazine.

Workers Strike Paralyzes Oil Sector Across Brazil

December 26, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Brazil, Oil, Strikes, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Staff for Tele Sur - Petrobras has decided to go to court with a request for conciliation to continue the negotiation with the unions. Oil workers in Brazil began a strike Friday that has paralyzed all activities at Petrobras’ refineries and maritime platforms, union leaders say. According to the Federation of Petroleum Workers, or FUP, the largest trade union in the sector, workers rejected the salary increase proposed by the state-owned company and affiliated unions have already approved the federation's calls for the use of strikes. The FUP also called the adjustment in salaries “insufficient,” and said Petrobras is in breach of the 2016/2017 Collective Work Agreement.

Trump, Putin & The Pipelines To Nowhere

December 18, 2016 Alex Steffen, medium.com Educate! Climate Change, Donald Trump, Gas, Oil, Pipelines, Vladimir Putin

By Alex Steffen for Medium. It is not hyperbole to say that swelling the Carbon Bubble is not only not in the interests of the United States, it increases threats to our economy and national security, puts Americans at risk, undermines our prosperity and weakens our nation. It’s hard to call defending high carbon interests anything but unpatriotic. People who are looking to understand what the Trump gang is up to would do well to consider his gang’s actions through the lens of the Carbon Bubble. Understand that the amounts of money at stake are vast, nearly inconceivable to most of us, and highly concentrated in the hands of the people in Trump’s cabinet and their close friends and business allies. We need to focus: The most serious political fight on the planet — the need to end use of coal, oil and gas — is at the center of America’s current political crisis.

The Oil Siege Is Over, “The Cartel” Looks East

December 17, 2016 Caleb Maupin, www.journal-neo.org Educate! Oil

By Caleb Maupin for NEO - Way back in January of 2008, Donald Trump was interviewed by MSNBC’s Jim Cramer. At the time, oil prices were hovering between $90 to $100 per barrel. The man who is set to become the next President, 8 years later, explained why, saying, “The illegal monopoly raises the oil prices. So the monopoly, that’s what it is, it’s a total illegal monopoly. If businesses ever formed OPEC, everybody would be put in jail… It’s a disgrace…. They lower it, they raise it. They lower it, they raise it. Now you have oil that’s going to be close to a hundred, and nobody in this country calls and says ‘get that goddamn oil price down, you get it down.’ And they can do it!

Exxon Won’t Sponsor AGU, A Win Of Sorts For Oil Giant’s Opponents

December 7, 2016 Zahra Hirji, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Exxon, Oil

By Zahra Hirji for Inside Climate News - Energy giant ExxonMobil won't be a sponsor of the largest earth and space science conference for the first time since at least 2001. It was Exxon's decision not to provide any funding for the annual conference, which will be held next week in San Francisco, according to a blog post last week from the conference organizers, the American Geophysical Union. This news follows a nearly year-long campaign, in which more than 60,000 scientists, activists and others urged AGU to not accept Exxon's money because they say the company has contributed to the spread of misinformation about climate change.

Trump Advisors Aim To Privatize Oil-Rich Indian Reservations

December 6, 2016 Valerie Volcovici, www.reuters.com Educate! Donald Trump, Oil, Privatization, Reservations

By Valerie Volcovici for Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Native American reservations cover just 2 percent of the United States, but they may contain about a fifth of the nation’s oil and gas, along with vast coal reserves. Now, a group of advisors to President-elect Donald Trump on Native American issues wants to free those resources from what they call a suffocating federal bureaucracy that holds title to 56 million acres of tribal lands, two chairmen of the coalition told Reuters in exclusive interviews. The group proposes to put those lands into private ownership - a politically explosive idea that could upend more than century of policy designed to preserve Indian tribes on U.S.-owned reservations...

Obama Halts Arctic Oil Leases; Undoing It Won’t Be Simple For Trump

November 20, 2016 Phil McKenna, www.insideclimatenews.org Create! Arctic drilling, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Oil

By Phil McKenna for Inside Climate News. By writing a five-year plan with no leases for oil drilling in the Alaskan Arctic, President Obama—and market forces—provide roadblocks for Trump to change. No new offshore oil and gas leases will be offered in the Alaskan Arctic through 2022, according to a new five-year plan for offshore drilling released Friday by the Obama administration. President-elect Donald Trump could overturn the ban, but that could take years and may not draw much industry interest if oil prices stay low. The Interior Department's five-year plan laid out all of the proposed auctions for drilling rights on the outer continental shelf of the United States. It allowed for no leases between 2017 and 2022 in the Beaufort or Chukchi seas, Arctic waters north and west of Alaska.

Lobbyist For Dakota Access Formerly Led Army’s “Restore Iraqi Oil” Program

November 4, 2016 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Dakota Access Pipeline, Military, Oil

By Steve Horn for Desmog - Robert Crear, one of the lobbyists working for Dakota Access pipeline co-owners Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics, formerly served as a chief of staff and commanding general for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Army Corps and other federal agencies are currently reviewing the permit granted for the controversial pipeline's construction near the Missouri River and Lake Oahe in North Dakota...

Is Standing Rock Oil Industry’s Last Stand? It’s Up To Us To Make It So

October 19, 2016 Four Arrows, www.truth-out.org Resist! Indigenous Peoples, Oil, Standing Rock

By Four Arrows for Truthout - Having just flown in from Mexico, my first night at the campground in Standing Rock felt especially cold. Temperatures had dropped to the low 30s and strong winds shook my rented minivan until 4 in the morning. By 6:45 am, the illumination of the yet invisible sun revealed that many of the tents around me had been blown down. The tepees of course were still standing.

Dedicated Activists: The Next Big Threat For North-American Oil

October 14, 2016 Nick Cunningham, www.oilprice.com Resist! Activists, Oil

By Nick Cunningham for Oilprice - Oil producers and pipeline developers are having a rough time trying to get their product to market, running into resistance from protestors and seeing projects fall by the wayside. The latest came from Royal Dutch Shell, backed out of a plan last week to build an oil train terminal in Washington State. The rail terminal would have received 400,000 barrels per day of oil from the Bakken...

Oil Refinery Merger In California Underscores Risks Of Petro-Economy Nationwide

October 5, 2016 Daniel Ross, www.truth-out.org Educate! California, Economics, Oil

By Daniel Ross for Truthout - In a region known for being among the worst nationally for its air quality, plans are marching briskly forward on a proposed integration project that will combine operations at two sprawling oil refineries near Southern California's Long Beach area, expanding it into the single largest oil refinery by far on the nation's West Coast. The merger threatens to introduce additional toxins, such as benzene and sulfur gases, into a community that is already suffering from unnaturally high rates of asthma, cancer and other ailments, warn experts.

Pipeline Leaks 250,000 Gallons, Causing States Of Emergency

September 20, 2016 Alejandro Dávila Fragoso, www.thinkprogress.org Organize! Alabama, Environment, Georgia, Oil, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill

By Alejandro Dávila Fragoso for Think Progress - A pipeline leak of at least 250,000 gallons of gasoline in a rural Alabama county is expected to affect fuel prices in the coming days across multiple southern states and the East Coast. The leak already prompted two states of emergency Thursday stemming from fuel shortage concerns. The oil leak was first discovered a week ago in rural Shelby County — just southeast of Birmingham, Alabama.

Oil Production Begins At Controversial Amazon Drilling Project

September 9, 2016 Adam Zuckerman and Kevin Koenig, www.amazonwatch.org Resist! Amazon, Drilling, Oil

By Adam Zuckerman and Kevin Koenig for Amazon Watch - Tomorrow, Ecuadorian state oil company Petroamazonas will produce the first barrel of commercial crude from the ITT (Ishpingo, Tambococha, Tiputini) fields that lie beneath Yasuní National Park, an area that some scientists have called the most biodiverse rainforest on Earth. Much of the oil will likely be processed in California, which refined 60% of Ecuador's oil exports in 2015.

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