The Bush administration has appointed former ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond and the National Petroleum Council to chart America’s energy future. Raymond, chair of the NPC, is to provide the administration with policy recommendations for the long-term direction of the nation’s energy policy. Raymond was granted the power to handpick the study’s leadership.
Critics say new LNG ventures in British Columbia saddle Indigenous communities with debt, opaque ownership structures, and financial risk that could leave them owing billions.
Campaigners have highlighted the irony of the Tory peer warning about threats to free speech at a think tank bankrolled by a repressive regime.
Corporate pledges to fight deforestation by turning degraded pasture into cropland seen boosting demand for harmful chemical inputs.
As the New York-based firm was preparing to work on the climate summit, it was also pushing for Brazilian oil and gas distributor Vibra Energia to help power it.
