Oil

Coronavirus Fallout Could Be The ‘Nail In The Coffin’ For Smaller Oil Companies

March 17, 2020 By Naveena Sadasivam, Grist.org Educate! Coronavirus, COVID-19, Oil

At the State of the Union in February, President Trump boasted that his administration’s deregulatory agenda had made the U.S. “energy independent.” It was a dubious claim at the time, but recent events stemming from the outbreak of the novel coronavirus have shown it to be even more of a ruse. This month oil prices plummeted about 25 percent and settled around $35 per barrel — the biggest slide in nearly 30 years.

Grand Jury Refuses Felonies For Greenpeace Activists And Others Charged In Houston Oil Industry Protest

March 5, 2020 Ryan Schleeter, Greenpeace.org Resist! Activists, Houston, Oil, Protests

Houston, Texas — Today, a grand jury refused to issue felony indictments against the Greenpeace USA activists and others charged following the peaceful protest on September 12, 2019 at the Houston Ship Channel [1]. Thirty-one people had been charged with a felony by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office under Texas’ controversial new anti-protest law, but none were indicted on this charge by a Harris County grand jury.

Extinction Rebellion Protesters Tie Themselves To Gigantic Oil Rig In Marlborough Sounds

March 4, 2020 Staff, Newshub.co.nz Resist! Civil Disobedience, Extinction Rebellion, Oil

Extinction Rebellion protesters have tied themselves to a huge oil rig in the Marlborough Sounds to protest deep-sea oil drilling. Two members of the climate activism group boarded the 100-metre high OMV rig at 10:30am on Tuesday and fastened themselves to the side of the vessel. The rig was travelling through the Marlborough Sounds on its way to Taranaki when the protesters commandeered it and clambered on board.

As Usual, Western Media Grossly Distort Syria’s Conflict

February 26, 2020 Staff , Strategic-culture.org Educate! Fuel, Media, Middle East, Oil, Russia, Syria

Western news media are once again distorting the conflict in Syria with lopsided coverage this week, claiming to focus their concern on a humanitarian crisis in the northwest of the country. Outlets such as the New York Times and the BBC, among others, claimedthat 900,000 civilians are fleeing violence brought on by Syrian state forces and their Russian ally continuing an offensive against “rebels”.

‘War In The Woods, Round Two:’ Amid Civil Unrest, Activists Gear Up For Bigger Battle Over Trans Mountain

February 15, 2020 Jesse Snyder, Nationalpost.com Resist! Canada, Indigenous Peoples, Oil, Pipelines

OTTAWA — Recent protests and blockades are only the beginning of the civil disobedience that lies ahead as Ottawa pushes ahead with the controversial Trans Mountain expansion project, claims an activist group. “I really do see this as a taste of things to come,” said Alexandra Woodsworth, campaign organizer at the British Columbia-based Dogwood Initiative.

Shut Down Canada Until It Solves Its War, Oil, And Genocide Problem

February 15, 2020 David Swanson, Worldbeyondwar.org Resist! Canada, Oil, Wars and Militarism

Indigenous people in Canada are giving the world a demonstration of the power of nonviolent action. The justness of their cause — defending the land from those who would destroy it for short term profit and the elimination of a habitable climate on earth — combined with their courage and the absence on their part of cruelty or hatred, has the potential to create a much larger movement, which is of course the key to success.

After A Decade Of Fracking, Billions Of Dollars Lost And A Climate In Crisis

January 27, 2020 Sharon Kelly, Desmogblog.com Educate! Climate Change, Fracking, Oil

As 2020 begins, the impacts of climate change have become increasingly clear around the world. The new year started amid devastating wildfires, tied to the worst droughts Australia has experienced in hundreds of years, which encircled much of the continent. So far, 29 people have been reported dead. A University of Sydney professor estimated the number of animals killed likely tops one billion.

The Refugee Industry & Australia’s Still Burning – Coal

January 17, 2020 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resistance Report Australia, Coal, Oil, Refugees

Caged for seeking freedom – migrants and refugees in the land of the free. Next, zooming out on the global refugee industry – because yes, that too – is a booming business. Finally, global droughts, and the fires of human folly; coal scare tactics leading Australia's climate policy and how grassroots climate activists are fighting a massive mining project in the midst of a firestorm.

Emails Reveal U.S. Justice Dept. Working Closely With Oil Industry To Oppose Climate Lawsuits

January 14, 2020 By David Hasemyer, Insideclimatenews.org Educate! Climate Change, Corruption, Department of Justice, Lawsuit, Oil

In early 2018, a few months after the cities of Oakland and San Francisco sued several major oil companies over climate change, attorneys with the U.S. Department of Justice began a series of email exchanges and meetings with lawyers for the oil companies targeted in the litigation. At one point, Eric Grant, a deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division, sent an email to Indiana's solicitor general saying that his "boss" had asked him to set up a meeting to go over a plan for the government to intercede in the cases on the companies' behalf.

The Deeper Story Behind The Assassination Of Soleimani

January 12, 2020 Federico Pieraccini, Strategic Culture. Educate! China, Iran, Iraq, Oil, Trump, US Imperialism

Days after the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, new and important information is coming to light from a speech given by the Iraqi prime minister. The story behind Soleimani’s assassination seems to go much deeper than what has thus far been reported, involving Saudi Arabia and China as well the U.S. dollar’s role as the global reserve currency. The Iraqi prime minister, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, has revealed details of his interactions with Trump in the weeks leading up to Soleimani’s assassination in a speech to the Iraqi parliament. He tried to explain several times on live television how Washington had been browbeating him and other Iraqi members of parliament to toe the American line, even threatening to engage in false-flag sniper shootings of both protesters and security personnel in order to inflame the situation...

A New Middle East ‘Made In Iran’ Is About To Be Born

January 12, 2020 Elijah J. Magnier. Educate! Iran, Middle East, Oil, Trump, Wars and Militarism

It would be inaccurate to say the US will leave the Middle East. However, it is certain that the assassination of one single man – the Iranian General Qassem Soleimani – is diminishing US influence significantly. This could not have happened without the (in) direct help of US President Donald Trump. Trump is doing everything possible to undermine and degrade US hegemony in the world. He doesn’t need any help in this endeavour, but his advisors and cabinet members share his talent for mismanaging foreign policy and national security affairs. With this bad advice US relations around the world, and particularly in the Middle East, have been run as if by a businessman, used to negotiating and intimidating with little subtlety and altogether lacking diplomatic skills.

Arctic Drilling Ruling Brings Hope To Native Villages, Subsistence Hunters

January 11, 2020 Sabrina Shankman, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Arctic drilling, Fossil Fuels, Oil

If there is one place that has most felt the Trump administration's push to rapidly expand fossil fuel development, it might be Nuiqsut, a small village nestled on Alaska's North Slope. The village has become almost entirely surrounded by oil and gas drilling over the past three decades, and the Trump administration has been aggressively pushing for more drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, just west of the village, and off the coast to the north.

US Military Convoy Enters Oil Fields In Northeast Syria

December 21, 2019 Staff, Presstv.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Oil, Syria, US military

The United States sent new deployments to the Syrian provinces of Hasakah and Dayr al-Zawr from neighboring Iraq on Sunday, according to the state-run Al-Ikhbariya TV. The US vehicles were carrying logistical equipment that would be provided to the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish militant group, in the eastern countryside of Dayr al-Zawr. Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu Agency said the convoy contained 4x4 pickups, ambulances, minibuses and 100 rigs filled with fuel oil.

Why Four Christian Activists Risked Arrest To Shut Down An Oil Pipeline

December 20, 2019 By Stephen Quirke, Sojo.net Resist! Activists, Oil, Pipelines

THE WORLD HAS known since 2011 that at least 80 percent of all fossil fuels must stay in the ground to keep global temperatures below 2 degrees Celsius. This means that 90 percent of U.S. and Australian coal, and all Canadian tar sands, must stay in the ground. Yet in an August press conference, President Trump reacted to a question on global climate action by defending, at all costs, wealth creation from fossil fuels.

Goldman Sachs Sees Stranded Assets: Rules Out Investment In Coal And Arctic Oil

December 18, 2019 Staff, Ran.org Create! Arctic, Finance and the Economy, Oil

San Francisco– Today, Goldman Sachs announced the strongest fossil finance restrictions of any major U.S. bank, though it still lags behind its leading global competitors. It also remains far from alignment with what is needed to limit climate change to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Goldman Sachs has ruled out direct finance for new or expanding thermal coal mines and coal-fired power plant projects worldwide, as well as direct finance for new Arctic oil exploration and production. The policy makes explicit mention of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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