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This Massive Facebook Solar Project Will Power Shell’s Fracking Operations in Texas

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Tags: Permian Basin facebook shell Occidental Petroleum Chevron (NYSE: CVX) renewable energy 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. One of the project’s main financiers has a very familiar name — Facebook.

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Shell's Latest Annual Report: More Greenwashing?

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Read time: 8 mins Two years after internal documents surfaced showing that Royal Dutch Shell, like ExxonMobil, knew about climate dangers decades ago, the oil giant released its latest annual report outlining its business strategy and approach to addressing climate change.

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Revealed: Fossil Fuel Giants Are Using British Influencers to go Viral

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Oil and gas supermajors including Shell and BP are using UK influencers to push false solutions to the climate crisis and manufacture a more family friendly image, DeSmog can reveal. Our analysis uncovered promotional material from two PR firms representing Shell, boasting of the success of their online advertising.

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With Coal’s Decline, Pennsylvania Communities Watch the Rise of Natural Gas-fueled Plastics

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The juxtaposition of these two projects, in which one powerful fossil fuel supply rises as the other falls, reflects the broader pattern of changing energy sources in America. A growing chorus agrees the expansion of the natural gas industry, which feeds plastics and petrochemical plants like Shell’s, is moving the U.S.

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7 European Companies Looking to Go Big in American Clean Power in 2020

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ambitions with its $510 million deal for Deepwater Wind and then, more surprisingly, its acquisition of onshore wind and solar developer Lincoln Energy. Tellingly, in November it also established its own energy trading office in Chicago. Shell is a household name in the U.S. It already runs a Shell-branded supplier in the U.K.).

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Big Oil Can't Fight the 'Irresistible' Rise of Electric Vehicles — Report

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The days of oil as a fuel for cars, whether petrol or diesel, are numbered — because the economies offered by wind and solar energy and other cheap renewables, combined with electric vehicles, are irresistible, a French bank says. Tags: electric vehicles BNP Paribas renewables investment cars

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Chevron’s #BlackLivesMatter Hypocrisy

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At a House committee hearing on fossil fuel deception last year, Congressional reps from oil and gas states repeated a long-used talking point: A clean energy transition is just a big f**k-you to poor people. This story originally appeared in the Hot Take newsletter.