Tag: big oil

Big Oil lied to us for decades about climate change.

Despite claims of transitioning to cleaner energy, internal emails and documents obtained by a congressional investigation show oil companies trying to protect their fossil fuel investments through public narratives that conflict with private communications.

While you pay through the nose at the gas pump, Big Oil is lining its pockets.

"Make no mistake; these profits mark a large transfer of wealth from working- and middle-class people to wealthy oil executives and shareholders," said Jordan Schreiber of Accountable.US.

The Macdonald Laurier Institute then bragged about pushing a massive tar sands expansion.

An international human rights body condemned Canada’s treatment of Indigenous communities opposing two major oil and gas pipelines.

"It is common sense" to use such a tax to provide rebates to consumers, argued Rep. Ro Khanna. "You have these oil companies making record profits at a time of a national emergency."

If angry contrarians are right, and only illegitimate elections exist, why traffic in anything less than revolution?

"Numerous executives have emphasized that shareholder profits, rather than expanding domestic production, is their top goal."

Total’s “incredibly risky” crude oil pipeline may still lack the financial backing it requires, campaigners have claimed, as the controversial project moved...