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uk/‘Our Community Has Been Suffering’: Total Abandons Nigerian Hospital Built as Compensation for Gas Pipeline Explosion
By Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi
on
Ohiauga, a remote village in Nigeria, needs a hospital. Seven years ago, it almost got one.  In 2012, the oil and gas company Total E&P Nigeria, a subsidiary of Total SA, promised to build a moder...
Shell's Latest Annual Report: More Greenwashing?
By Dana Drugmand
on
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 bu...
us/A Faltering Fracking Industry, on the Verge of a Bailout, Mixes Patriotism and Oil in the Permian
By Julie Dermansky
on
Signs equating patriotism with the oil and gas industry are abundant in the Permian Basin, one of the United States’ most prolific oil and natural gas plays.  There, the messages on billboards, tr...
A compressor station along newly constructed pipeline
us/Exxon Now Wants to Write the Rules for Regulating Methane Emissions
By Justin Mikulka
on
ExxonMobil is a company capable of contradictions. It has been lobbying against government efforts to address climate change while running ads touting its own efforts to do so. And while the oil g...
us/Delayed Senate Energy Bill Promotes LNG Exports, 'Clean Coal' and Geoengineering
By Steve Horn
on
The huge bipartisan energy bill currently stalled in the Senate would fast-track exports of fracked gas, offer over a billion dollars in subsidies to “clean coal” efforts and make available hundred...
us/The North American Natural Gas Industry Is Struggling—Here's Why
By Justin Mikulka
on
Last year, the financial prospects for the North American natural gas market were looking grim, as nervous investors started pulling back and producers announced big spending cuts and layoffs. Tod...
A large orange fiery flare of methane gas.
us/The Future of Exxon and the Permian’s Flaring Crisis
By Nick Cunningham
on
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 ...
uk/UK Government-Owned Investor Using Hundreds of Millions of Aid Money to Finance Fossil Fuels Abroad
By Alex Varley-Winter
on
Have you heard of the bank that taxpayers bankroll? Its purpose is “to do good, without losing money”, and it could be permitted to receive up to £12 billion a year in public funding. But it is al...
us/Stock Market Turmoil Undermines Claimed Energy Dominance Benefits of US Shale Drilling
By Sharon Kelly
on
Oil prices collapsed today amid falling energy demand and the global response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide reached over 113,000. On Friday,...
us/Oil Execs, Anxious About Public Support, Claim Halting Fossil Fuel Production Would Be 'Criminal'
By Dana Drugmand
on
A new oil and gas industry ad pushes back against growing calls to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for the climate crisis — by making the bold statement that it would be criminal not to p...

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uk/‘Our Community Has Been Suffering’: Total Abandons Nigerian Hospital Built as Compensation for Gas Pipeline Explosion
ByElfredah Kevin-Alerechi
on

Ohiauga, a remote village in Nigeria, needs a hospital. Seven years ago, it almost got one.  In 2012, the oil and gas company Total E&P Nigeria, a subsidiary of Total SA, promised to build a moder...
Shell's Latest Annual Report: More Greenwashing?
ByDana Drugmand
on

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 bu...
us/A Faltering Fracking Industry, on the Verge of a Bailout, Mixes Patriotism and Oil in the Permian
ByJulie Dermansky
on

Signs equating patriotism with the oil and gas industry are abundant in the Permian Basin, one of the United States’ most prolific oil and natural gas plays.  There, the messages on billboards, tr...
Series: Permian Problems: Fracking Industry's Promised Land Turns Sour
Series: Fracking the Permian
us/Exxon Now Wants to Write the Rules for Regulating Methane Emissions
ByJustin Mikulka
on

ExxonMobil is a company capable of contradictions. It has been lobbying against government efforts to address climate change while running ads touting its own efforts to do so. And while the oil g...
Series: Permian Problems: Fracking Industry's Promised Land Turns Sour
Series: Fracking the Permian
A compressor station along newly constructed pipeline
us/Delayed Senate Energy Bill Promotes LNG Exports, 'Clean Coal' and Geoengineering
BySteve Horn
on

The huge bipartisan energy bill currently stalled in the Senate would fast-track exports of fracked gas, offer over a billion dollars in subsidies to “clean coal” efforts and make available hundred...
us/The North American Natural Gas Industry Is Struggling—Here's Why
ByJustin Mikulka
on

Last year, the financial prospects for the North American natural gas market were looking grim, as nervous investors started pulling back and producers announced big spending cuts and layoffs. Tod...
Series: Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
Series: Fracking Finances
us/The Future of Exxon and the Permian’s Flaring Crisis
ByNick Cunningham
on

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 ...
Series: Permian Problems: Fracking Industry's Promised Land Turns Sour
Series: Fracking the Permian
A large orange fiery flare of methane gas.
uk/UK Government-Owned Investor Using Hundreds of Millions of Aid Money to Finance Fossil Fuels Abroad
ByAlex Varley-Winter
on

Have you heard of the bank that taxpayers bankroll? Its purpose is “to do good, without losing money”, and it could be permitted to receive up to £12 billion a year in public funding. But it is al...
us/Stock Market Turmoil Undermines Claimed Energy Dominance Benefits of US Shale Drilling
BySharon Kelly
on

Oil prices collapsed today amid falling energy demand and the global response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide reached over 113,000. On Friday,...
Series: Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
Series: Fracking Finances
us/Oil Execs, Anxious About Public Support, Claim Halting Fossil Fuel Production Would Be 'Criminal'
ByDana Drugmand
on

A new oil and gas industry ad pushes back against growing calls to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for the climate crisis — by making the bold statement that it would be criminal not to p...