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Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions Chevron’s Kern River oil field in Bakersfield, California. Photograph: Guardian DesignNew data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers
Half a century of dither and denial – a climate crisis timelineWhy we need political action to tackle the oil, coal and gas companies - video explainerby Matthew Taylor and Jonathan Watts
Wed 9 Oct 2019 07.00 EDTLast modified on Thu 10 Oct 2019 09.18 EDTThe Guardian today reveals the 20 fossil fuel companies whose relentless exploitation of the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves can be directly linked to more than one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions in the modern era.
New data from world-renowned researchers reveals how this cohort of state-owned and multinational firms are driving the climate emergency that threatens the future of humanity, and details how they have continued to expand their operations despite being aware of the industry’s devastating impact on the planet.The analysis, by Richard Heede at the Climate Accountability Institute in the US, the world’s leading authority on big oil’s role in the escalating climate emergency, evaluates what the global corporations have extracted from the ground, and the subsequent emissions these fossil fuels are responsible for since 1965 – the point at which experts say the environmental impact of fossil fuels was known by both industry leaders and politicians.
The top 20 companies on the list have contributed to 35% of all energy-related carbon dioxide and methane worldwide, totalling 480bn tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e) since 1965.
Q&AWhat is the polluters project?
Those identified range from investor-owned firms – household names such as Chevron, Exxon, BP and Shell – to state-owned companies including Saudi Aramco and Gazprom.
Chevron topped the list of the eight investor-owned corporations, followed closely by Exxon, BP and Shell. Together these four global businesses are behind more than 10% of the world’s carbon emissions since 1965.</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div>tar sand and arctic:And in Alberta, Canada, oil giant Shell has abandoned its plans for a massive tar sands mine, citing concerns that there aren’t enough pipelines to transport the crude oil. This comes after Shell also canceled its plans to drill in the Arctic. The construction of major pipelines such as Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline and TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline, that would help move Alberta tar sands, have been delayed by massive resistance, especially by First Nations. In Ontario, Anishinaabe women disrupted one of TransCanada’s town hall meetings over the proposed pipeline in 2014.<blockquote style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 3em; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 19.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Protester 1: "You guys are not welcome on Anishinaabe territory."</blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 3em; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 19.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Protester 2: "That’s coming from the women."</blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 3em; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 19.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Protester 3: "You’re not welcome here."</blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 3em; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 19.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">TransCanada representative: "OK, thank you. Listen, if we’re not going to be able to 
present information in a—"</blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 3em; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 19.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Protester 4: "Your information is lies."</blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 3em; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 19.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">TransCanada representative: "OK."</blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 3em; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 19.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Protester 4: "Your information is lies. You’re raping Mother Earth. You’re poisoning our water. You’re not listening to the women. We’re talking about our grandchildren and future generations. What are you going to tell your grandchildren? And what are your grandchildren going to tell their children when there’s no water?"</blockquote>Today, Shell reported a loss of $7.4 billion for the third quarter of this year. That’s compared with a profit of $4.5 billion in the same quarter a year earlier. Shell’s losses are caused by declining revenue from low oil prices and the company having wasted billions on the now-canceled tar sands and Arctic projects. =PIVOT PT:BP WithdrawsIn the immediate aftermath of the speech, BP announced that it would be withdrawing from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Global_Climate_Coalition" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); outline: none;">Global Climate Coalition</a>.It issued a short statement which included the following quote from Browne: “The time to consider the policy dimension of climate change is not when the link between greenhouse gases and climate change is conclusively proven, but when the possibility cannot be taken seriously by the society of which we are part. We in BP have reached that point.”Shell would follow shortly after, and the transatlantic coalition would slowly unravel. The environmentalists, by targeting shareholders and leveraging Blair's influence over his friend Browne, had delivered a knockout blow.The sceptics in the oil industry had lost their extremely well-funded, effective and brutal weapon in the war against climate regulations. Energy companies could not rely on openly funded, and in some ways honest, special interest-lobbying front groups.The executives at Exxon faced the prospect of having to come to terms with climate science and rebuild their multi-billion dollar company in its entirety, from the tip of the rotary oil drill, along the pipelines and refineries, to the nozzle of the petrol pump pushed into the back of the SUV.Or they could instead go it alone in the public relations and lobbying war. Exxon and the remaining oil companies would have to find new allies.===

8/15 dumps ALEC

<span style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Royal Dutch Shell announced Friday that it planned to let its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) lapse early next year, explicitly citing the organization's stance on climate change. The last oil company to cut ties with ALEC was BP in March 2015. In a statement, a Shell spokesperson said, "ALEC advocates for specific economic growth initiatives, but its stance on climate change is clearly inconsistent with our own."

http://www.prwatch.org/node/12904

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The heavy-handed attack from lobbyists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that arose during the 1990s presented a new risk: that the oilmen would become isolated from other leaders of industry.

As early as 1995, a deep divide began to open up between the chief executive officers and shareholders of major corporations in the United States and Britain who were anxious that their own operations and profits could be undermined by climate change.

The Delphi Group in London, a major investments advisor, published a landmark report that year, warning banks, insurers and institutional investors to immediately withdraw investments from oil and coal.

Mark Mansley, the report’s author, pointed out that “climate change presents major long-term risks to the carbon fuel industry [which] has not been adequately discounted by the financial markets.”

Major Threat

At the same time, Sven Hansen, vice-president of the Union Bank of Switzerland, spoke at a conference for finance capital: “Some of our clients are under major threat from climate change.”

Then, in June 1995, Shell found itself in direct conflict with Greenpeace as the environmentalists launched an audacious campaign to prevent the dumping of the Brent Spar oil platform in the North Sea. The campaign turned huge swathes of the public against the energy corporation.

Shell performed a startling u-turn, however, and caved into the green crusade.

“On the very same afternoon that Prime Minister John Major was defending Shell’s right to dump the Brent Spar oil platform in the North Sea, the company itself announced that it would reverse its decision due to pressure from Greenpeace and German consumers,” wrote Cameron’s future chief adviser, Steve Hilton.

“Never mind that subsequent scientific analysis showed Shell’s original plan to have been the most environmentally responsible: the point is that the Conservative response was knee-jerk laissez-faireism while Shell understood that the world had changed.”

Environmental Concerns

The ordeal forced an institution-wide investigation on Shell and, as a direct result, the company decided it could no longer ignore environmental concerns. John Jennings, chairman of a Shell subsidiary, gave a speech to the World Energy Congress in late 1995.

“Some… organisations have, on occasion, shown that, through effective if unscrupulous use of the media they can influence public opinion significantly and with it the political mood to which democratic governments feel obliged to respond,” Jennings said.

“But I believe it is imperative that the debate is based in principle on sound science, honesty and objectivity… we have to start to prepare for the orderly transition to new, renewable forms of energy at the lowest possible economic and environmental cost while sustaining secure supplies of conventional energy as the world economy hopefully continues to expand.”

This was the first time a senior oil executive had publicly acknowledged the science of climate change and the seriousness of its consequences. While Shell would continue to be a key target for campaigners, there was now among the oil giants themselves opening up a fundamental chasm.

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12/14

The Interior Department is considering a plan to allow Shell to drill for oil in the Arctic in 2015 despite the Obama administration’s own analysis showing a 75% chance of a disastrous oil spill if the plan moves forward. The Interior Department’s crucial public comment period ends on December 22, so we need to act fast to keep Shell out of the Arctic.

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<h4 class="yiv1921097283null" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: none; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://insideclimatenews.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7c733794100bcc7e083a163f0&id=9e375ead46&e=06876ede6b" style=" color: rgb(17, 85, 204); line-height: 1.2em; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: normal;">Shell Formally Launches 2015 Arctic Drilling Bid</a> (Fuel Fix)</h4>

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<span class="talk-transcriptparatext" style=" box-sizing: border-box; display: block; border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: double; border-left-color: transparent; margin-left: -13px; padding-left: 10px;">And in the years that I've been, and we've all been campaigning and investigating, I've repeatedly seen that what makes corruption on a global, massive scale possible, well it isn't just greed or the misuse of power or that nebulous phrase "weak governance." I mean, yes, it's all of those, but corruption, it's made possible by the actions of global facilitators.

<data class="talk-transcriptparatime" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: right; margin-left: -30px; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: -4em; width: 4em; font-weight: bold;">4:50</data><span class="talk-transcriptparatext" style=" box-sizing: border-box; display: block; border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: double; border-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-left: -13px; padding-left: 10px;">So let's go back to some of those people I talked about earlier. Now, they're all people we've investigated, and they're all people who couldn't do what they do alone. Take Obiang junior. Well, he didn't end up with high-end art and luxury houses without help. He did business with global banks. A bank in Paris held accounts of companies controlled by him, one of which was used to buy the art, and American banks, well, they funneled 73 million dollars into the States,some of which was used to buy that California mansion. And he didn't do all of this in his own name either. He used shell companies. He used one to buy the property, and another, which was in somebody else's name, to pay the huge bills it cost to run the place.

<data class="talk-transcriptparatime" style="color: rgb(170, 170, 170); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: right; margin-left: -30px; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: -4em; width: 4em;">5:35</data><span class="talk-transcriptparatext" style=" box-sizing: border-box; display: block; border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: double; border-left-color: transparent; margin-left: -13px; padding-left: 10px;">And then there's Dan Etete. Well, when he was oil minister, he awarded an oil block now worth over a billion dollars to a company that, guess what, yeah, he was the hidden owner of. Now, it was then much later traded on with the kind assistance of the Nigerian government -- now I have to be careful what I say here — to subsidiaries of Shell and the Italian Eni, two of the biggest oil companies around.

<data class="talk-transcriptparatime" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); text-align: right; margin-left: -30px; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: -4em; width: 4em;">6:36</data><span class="talk-transcriptparatext" style=" box-sizing: border-box; display: block; border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: double; border-left-color: transparent; margin-left: -13px; padding-left: 10px;">Now let's take the banks first. Well, it's not going to come as any surprise for me to tell you that banks accept dirty money, but they prioritize their profits in other destructive ways too. For example, in Sarawak, Malaysia. Now this region, it has just five percent of its forests left intact. Five percent. So how did that happen? Well, because an elite and its facilitators have been making millions of dollars from supporting logging on an industrial scale for many years. So we sent an undercover investigator in to secretly film meetings with members of the ruling elite, and the resulting footage, well, it made some people very angry, and you can see that on YouTube,but it proved what we had long suspected, because it showed how the state's chief minister,despite his later denials, used his control over land and forest licenses to enrich himself and his family. And HSBC, well, we know that HSBC bankrolled the region's largest logging companiesthat were responsible for some of that destruction in Sarawak and elsewhere. The bank violated its own sustainability policies in the process, but it earned around 130 million dollars. Now shortly after our exposé, very shortly after our exposé earlier this year, the bank announced a policy review on this. And is this progress? Maybe, but we're going to be keeping a very close eye on that case.

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kent at conf w/ shell  <a href="http://www.no-tar-sands.org/2012/10/activists-disrupt-speeches-by-canadian-minister-and-shell-chairman/">http://www.no-tar-sands.org/2012/10/activists-disrupt-speeches-by-canadian-minister-and-shell-chairman/</a>

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Shell, the second largest company in the world by revenue, is also famous for having one of the worst environmental records on the planet. Shell was formerly a member of the Global Climate Coalition (GCC), a group that heavily <a href="http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=304" target="_hplink">lobbied</a> governments and mounted persuasive advertising campaigns in the US to turn public opinion against concrete action on climate change. In 1998, following BP's lead, the company decided that such brazen lobbying was proving too costly for the company's reputation and left the coalition. It put a great deal of effort into greening its image and shifted to less overt forms of lobbying through institutions such as the Centre for European Policy Studies and the American Petroleum Institute.

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Royal Dutch Shell:

– Shell received a <a href="http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/green/report/2012/07/26/11880/romney-tax-plan-many-happy-returns-for-big-oil/#.UIf368y0-SA.email">$200 million annual tax break</a> in 2011.

– Shell has <a href="http://www-static.shell.com/static/investor/downloads/financial_information/quarterly_results/2012/q3/q3_2012_qra.pdf">$18.8 billion</a> in cash-on-hand.

– In the third quarter, Shell used $149 million of its profits to buy back its own stock.

– Shell’s oil production <a href="http://www-static.shell.com/static/investor/downloads/financial_information/quarterly_results/2012/q3/q3_2012_qra.pdf">decreased by 5 percent</a> compared to this time last year (1.59 million of barrels per day in 2012 vs. 1.67 million in 2011).

– Shell spent more on lobbying than the other Big Oil companies – $12.9 million so far in the 2012 election cycle – according to the latest Federal Election Commission figures.

–Shell just finished drilling top holes in <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Shell-ends-2012-Arctic-Ocean-drilling-off-Alaska-3997858.php">Arctic waters</a> for the year, after issues with its containment barge and ice flows created delays.

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nigeria case goes to Hague <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/11/shell-pollution-lawsuit-nigeria-africa_n_1956931.html?ref=topbar">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/11/shell-pollution-lawsuit-nigeria-africa_n_1956931.html?ref=topbar</a>

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perry denies problems: <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/200213-perry-gas-pollution-claims-would-be-front-page-news-if-true">http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/200213-perry-gas-pollution-claims-would-be-front-page-news-if-true</a>

<h1 class="title-blog">Vince Cable - Minister for Shell UK</h1>

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What job does Vince Cable want? Chancellor? Foreign secretary? Prime minister? It's the question everyone has been asking at this year's Liberal Democrat conference. However, documents obtained by <a href="http://www.corporatewatch.org/" target="_hplink">Corporate Watch</a> and revealed in The Huffington Post today show that it's Dr Cable's current role as 'Minister for Shell' that should be under question.

In a <a href="http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/download.php?id=162" target="hplink">letter</a> to Cable dated 19 March 2012, Malcolm Brinded, (who was, at that time, chief executive of Shell Upstream International), stated Vince's role as "contact Minister for Shell" is one he "wholeheartedly supports". The letter, released under the Freedom of Information Act (albeit heavily redacted), then goes on to outline how the oil giant would like the government to act regarding the European Fuel Quality Directive (FQD), a policy initiative aimed at reducing emissions from transport fuels. The government had abstained from supporting the FQD and Brinded, despite his company's supposed concern over climate change, was disgruntled. He tells Cable of the need for "a shift in the current UK position of neutrality/abstention to a clear vote against", adding "we judge it particularly important that a change in position is reached and communicated to other member states well ahead of time to maximize the chances of encouraging others in the same direction." A key feature of the FQD is a requirement for transport fuel suppliers to reduce the greenhouse gas intensity of the fuels they supply by 6% by 2020. The UK government has recently <a href="http://www.dft.gov.uk/news/statements/baker-20120911a/" target="hplink">stated</a> that it will not impose a greenhouse gas reduction obligation on suppliers at this point.

Should we be surprised? The revelation compounds recent concerns over Shell's access to UK government officials. In August the Guardian described a Shell '<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/aug/17/government-officials-schmooze-athon-shell" target="_hplink">schmoozathon</a>', revealing how the energy giant hosted a two day training course attended by officials across ten different government departments.

It is also not the first time questions have been raised about Dr Cable's close relationship with Shell. He joined the company in 1990 as an enthusiastic number-cruncher, becoming the company's chief economist from 1995 to 1997. During this period the company allegedly paid and supported the Nigerian military to commit international crimes. In 1995 the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other leaders of the southern Nigerian Ogoni ethnic group were executed by the Sani Abacha military government. This was after a waves of state-sponsored violence in the south of the country. In 2011, relatives of the assassinated Ogoni 9, as they became known, began legal proceedings against Shell, accusing the company of collaborating in the murders. Shell agreed an out-of-court <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/08/nigeria-usa" target="_hplink">settlement</a> in which they paid the victims' families $15.5m, rather then face a New York federal court.

Vince Cable has remained quiet about his time at Shell and denies any knowledge of the company's alleged links to the assassinations. However, as many have <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2009/09/mehdi-hasan" target="_hplink">commented</a>, it beggars belief that senior Shell officials, including Cable as chief economist, would not have been aware of Nigerian military activities in the Niger Delta.

Last month, the oil watchdog Platform <a href="http://platformlondon.org/2012/08/26/oil-companies-gave-cash-and-contracts-to-militants-and-warlords-in-nigeria/" target="_hplink">revealed</a> how Shell's funding of armed militant groups in Nigeria has continued in recent years and grown to a vast scale. In 2009, during the height of insurgency in the region, Shell paid $65m to government forces and a further $75m in "other" unexplained security costs.

Shell, the second largest company in the world by revenue, is also famous for having one of the worst environmental records on the planet. Shell was formerly a member of the Global Climate Coalition (GCC), a group that heavily <a href="http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=304" target="_hplink">lobbied</a> governments and mounted persuasive advertising campaigns in the US to turn public opinion against concrete action on climate change. In 1998, following BP's lead, the company decided that such brazen lobbying was proving too costly for the company's reputation and left the coalition. It put a great deal of effort into greening its image and shifted to less overt forms of lobbying through institutions such as the Centre for European Policy Studies and the American Petroleum Institute.

Shell's 'greenwashing' wasn't entirely successful, the company has been rebuked by the UK Advertising Standard's Agency over misleading the public, including one <a href="http://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2008/8/Shell-International-Ltd/TF_ADJ_44828.aspx" target="hplink">advert</a> suggesting its Canadian tar sands project was "sustainable" and <a href="http://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2007/11/Shell-Europe-Oil-Products-Ltd/TF_ADJ_43476.aspx" target="hplink">another</a> stating "We use our waste CO2 to grow flowers."

One of the company's current objectives is to expand its operations in the Arctic. The huge lobbying effort that has accompanied these ambitions has also attracted criticism. In May this year, the New York Times revealed how Shell had spent $4 billion on a seven year <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/science/earth/shell-arctic-ocean-drilling-stands-to-open-new-oil-frontier.html?pagewanted=all&moc.semityn.www" target="hplink">campaign</a> to gain access to the region's oil reserves, intensively lobbying governments and bribing the local indigenous Eskimo population by funding colleges, village festivals and whaling equipment.

Shell's planned operations in the Arctic have outraged environmental campaigners who accuse the company of using the melting sea ice, itself an impact of climate change, to gain access to further fossil fuel reserves, resulting in the release of even more greenhouse gases. They have also warned about the dangers involved in Arctic drilling, saying that a repeat of the Deepwater Horizon spill would devastate the pristine Arctic environment and delicate ecosystems. Thankfully last week Shell's Arctic ambitions suffered a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/18/shell-arctic-safety_n_1892513.html" target="_hplink">serious blow</a> after a series of safety issues meant it was unable to to secure a permit to undertake full drilling operations, forcing a delay until after the Arctic winter.

With Shell's disgraceful record on human rights and the environment it's no wonder the company wants its own minister (or perhaps even chancellor), and delegates at the Liberal Democrat conference may be questioning where Cables' loyalties lie.

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