DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Read time: 3 mins Early in the morning of February 6, an oil train derailed and caught fire near Guernsey, Saskatchewan, resulting in the Canadian village's evacuation. This is the second oil train to derail and burn near Guernsey, following one in December that resulted in a fire and oil spill of 400,000 gallons.

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OCTOBER 10, 2020

Living in Louisiana, reconciling the environmental harm caused by the state’s often celebrated oil and petrochemical sectors amounts to cognitive gaslighting. . Tags: Louisiana cancer alley nurdles Formosa plastic production

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APRIL 20, 2020

Read time: 9 mins A decade after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, killing 11 and spewing 200 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, south Louisiana resident Kindra Arnesen told me that the community was never made whole again, despite BP ’s ads promising it would.

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MAY 20, 2020

Superior Court, claims the oil major is misleading consumers with “false and deceptive” advertising about its investments in “clean” fuels and technology. Tags: ExxonMobil Beyond Pesticides false advertising bp climate lawsuits naomi oreskes geoffrey supran The latest suit , filed May 15 in the D.C.

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MAY 12, 2020

Recent lobby filings from major oil and gas paint a picture of “disaster capitalism at its worst.”. So declares a report released Tuesday, May 12 by Friends of the Earth ( FOE ) showing how Big Oil is working to make sure the legislative response to the coronavirus crisis is beneficial to the industry.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Read time: 8 mins As oil prices plummet, oil bankruptcies mount , and investors shun the shale industry, America’s top oil field — the Permian shale that straddles Texas and New Mexico — faces many new challenges that make profits appear more elusive than ever for the financially failing shale oil industry.

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MARCH 30, 2020

Read time: 6 mins A growing number of refineries around the world are either curtailing operations or shutting down entirely as the oil market collapses. . Tags: Refining COVID-19 Gasoline

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

Read time: 6 mins A train carrying over 100 cars of volatile Bakken oil derailed in Washington state, causing the evacuation of the town of Custer. At least two of the train cars ruptured and the oil ignited and burned — reminding us once again why these dangerous trains are known as bomb trains. .

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MARCH 29, 2021

Read time: 10 mins In December, The New York Times published a story revealing how ExxonMobil and other oil companies had paid a public relations firm named FTI to build “news” and information websites falsely suggesting grassroots support for the fossil fuel industry and its initiatives.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Read time: 5 mins The Supreme Court of Norway is set to rule in a high-profile climate change lawsuit challenging the Norwegian government’s licensing of new offshore oil drilling in the fragile and rapidly warming Arctic region. Tags: Norway Arctic Oil climate change climate litigation petroleum exports Greenpeace Norway

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JULY 12, 2020

Read time: 7 mins On July 6th Reuters published an article on the potential for a resurgence of moving crude oil from the Bakken region of North Dakota across the country by rail, due to a judge’s decision to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline over permit issues. Tags: Bakken Bomb Trains oil trains

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AUGUST 14, 2020

It was dark and the vehicles drove through deep snow, smashing through wooden signs and barriers that guarded the village of tiny houses, erected in the path of a long-distance oil pipeline that runs from Alberta to the Pacific Coast. .

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FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Read time: 8 mins Last August, ExxonMobil warned that it may need to remove 20 percent of its oil and gas proved reserves from its books. While that was a shocking number from the oil major, reality proved to be even more of a shock to the company. Securities and Exchange Commission Canadian tar sands oil

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MARCH 5, 2021

But the question is whether the industry will listen — or continue to gamble with shale gas and oil. Tags: shale fracking Read time: 10 mins Energy companies are increasingly having to face the unprofitable reality of fracking, and some executives are now starting to admit that publicly.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 17, 2020

Read time: 6 mins At a time of overlapping crises, putting fossil fuel assets into public ownership offers a way to slash carbon emissions and pave the way for a just transition for oil and gas workers who find themselves without a job, according to a new report. Tags: COVID-19 oil bailout fracking finances

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

Read time: 5 mins Norway’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled not to overturn the Norwegian government’s approval of new licenses for offshore oil drilling in the fragile Arctic region. Tags: climate lawsuits Norway Arctic Oil Greenpeace Norway CIEL Tags: climate lawsuits Norway Arctic Oil Greenpeace Norway CIEL

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Read time: 7 mins The recent deluge of pro-hydrogen stories in the media that tout hydrogen as a climate solution and clean form of energy can now be linked in part to FTI Consulting — one of the most notorious oil and gas industry public relations firms. Tags: Hydrogen FTI Consulting Bridge Fuel Green hydrogen

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2020

area packed with oil and gas wells, pipelines, and rigs. Tags: Hurricane Delta Read time: 7 mins Hurricane Delta made landfall in Creole. Louisiana, on October 9, 13 miles east of where Hurricane Laura struck 43 days before. It touched down in an.

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APRIL 1, 2020

The oil and gas industry has been no exception, but some of the proposed initiatives are dividing the industry. Tags: coronavirus natural gas prices oil bailout Harold Hamm low oil prices Strategic Petroleum Reserve

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Read time: 10 mins In the heart of the Permian oil patch in West Texas, a massive $416 million solar array began converting sunshine to electricity this summer. Tags: Permian Basin facebook shell Occidental Petroleum Chevron (NYSE: CVX) renewable energy One of the project’s main financiers has a very familiar name — Facebook.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2020

Read time: 10 mins With the recent focus on systemic racism in America, the oil and gas industry is depicting itself as leading on the issue of diversity in the workforce. Tags: racism sexism discrimination oil and gas industry

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APRIL 4, 2021

Read time: 12 mins The fossil fuel industry and its investors have financially benefited from tax policies and subsidies designed to reduce the emissions from oil, gas, and coal — sometimes without taking the action required to tackle climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Read time: 10 mins In October, New Mexico announced new rules that propose slashing the massive volumes of methane which the oil and gas industry is releasing into the atmosphere. Tags: New Mexico methane regulations Hilcorp Jeffrey Hildebrand

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2020

A new report released Tuesday by Oil Change International and Greenpeace USA found that reinstating the U.S. crude oil export ban Congress lifted in 2015 would slash global carbon emissions by up to 181 million tons of CO2 -equivalent each year — a reduction comparable to shuttering dozens of coal-fired power plants.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Read time: 8 mins On March 5, there was a sense of drama and tension unlike in years past as ExxonMobil’s top executives gathered for their annual Investor Day presentation, a highly anticipated event where the oil major lays out its plans for the next few years in an effort to woo investors.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2021

Zalee, a vivacious high school freshman who loved singing, died on Feb ruary 28 when oil tanks explo ded near her home in Beauregard , Louisiana. Zalee's body was found across the street from the site of the blast in the Bear Field oil field, just north of Lake Charles.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

Read time: 4 mins Communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon are calling for an end to “violence against Indigenous peoples and nature” as a trial into a devastating oil spill resumes today. . The Kichwa and Shuar tribes launched a lawsuit against the government and state-owned oil company Petroecuador in April after two pipelines ruptured.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2020

If you’ve driven through an area where companies extract oil and gas from shale formations, you’ve probably seen flames dancing at the tops of vertical pipes. That’s flaring — the mostly uncontrolled practice of burning off a byproduct of oil and gas production. Over the past 10 years, the U.S. Over the past 10 years, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2019

shale oil and gas firms are now moving from a boom in fracking to a boom in bankruptcies. Tags: oil and gas cleanup well bonding EP Energy Eagle Ford Shale fracking finances bankruptcies Independent Petroleum Association of America Read time: 9 mins In over their heads with debt, U.S.

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APRIL 3, 2020

Read time: 9 mins At the same time a price war is raging in the global oil markets, a regional price war is playing out in the shale fields of Texas. The Texas oil war is between the major oil companies ExxonMobil and Chevron and the many independent shale oil producers.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

oil and gas industry is on the verge of defaulting on billions of dollars in environmental cleanup obligations. Even the largest companies in the industry appear to have few plans to properly clean up and plug oil and gas wells after the wells stop producing — despite being legally required to do so.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2020

On Monday the City of Honolulu filed a lawsuit against 10 oil and gas companies, seeking monetary damages to help pay for costs associated with climate impacts like sea level rise and flooding. Tags: Honolulu Hawaii climate liability Manufacturers' Accountability Project

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MARCH 25, 2020

Read time: 6 mins Today, a federal judge tossed out federal permits for the Dakota Access pipeline ( DAPL ), built to carry over half a million barrels of Bakken crude oil a day from North Dakota, and ordered the U.S. Tags: Dakota Access Pipeline Standing Rock Sioux Tribe energy transfer U.S. District Judge James E.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The city of Hoboken today filed a case against major oil and gas companies and the American Petroleum Institute ( API ) , a powerful industry trade group which has played a major role in promoting “uncertainty” about climate science.

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APRIL 5, 2021

But the Asgard, which was drilling an oil well in the waters about 225 miles south of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, had other pressing matters to deal with. That same day, the oil well it was drilling more than a mile below the water’s surface experienced a kick — an eruption of oil, gas, or other fluids from deep underground up the drill pipe.

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JANUARY 9, 2021

They joined in song , protesting a controversial tar sands oil pipeline called Line 3 , which is currently being constructed through northern Minnesota and traditional Anishinaabe lands. Tags: Line 3 Enbridge Enbridge Line 3 Minnesota Winona LaDuke tar sands

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Read time: 9 mins It was 1971, less than a year after the world’s first Earth Day, and in Canada an oil giant was worried. Public concern regarding environmental problems is being translated into legislation rapidly,” Imperial Oil warned in an annual research planning document dated January of that year.

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