Crude Britannia: Understanding how oil shapes a nation
There is a great and timely book that has been published entitled Crude Britannia, which looks at how oil has shaped society and the political landscape of the United Kingdom.
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Non-Aligned: As Big Oil spews climate denial, oil workers want to “switch to renewables”
Whereas Big Oil bosses still continue a strategy of climate denial, the majority of oil workers would switch to jobs in the renewable industry.
“Humiliation”: Exxon dumped out Dow Jones Industrial Index after nearly 100 years
The once mighty Exxon has just suffered the corporate humiliation of being booted out the highly influential Dow Jones Industrial Index.
We have entered the “end game” for oil — with “permanent demand destruction”
As we have been repeatedly saying for months, we are witnessing the end of the oil age. Even once great giants are now crumbling at their core.
Both Minnesota and D.C. sue Big Oil for “campaign of deception” over climate change
Big Oil’s decades' old campaign to deny, deceive and delay action on climate change has been thrust into the spotlight again after the Attorney Generals for Minnesota and the District of Columbia (D.C.) both launched legal action against the industry within 24 hours of each other.
From Supermajors to Superminors: the fall of Big Oil
Shell is in trouble. BP is in trouble. So too is Exxon.
As BP’s profits plunge, analysts say we are entering the “end-game” for oil
You cannot underestimate that seismic shift going on as investors, often drunk on big oil profits, now just face uncertainty and loss. The oceans are awash with bobbing tankers full of oil, with no market to sell them. The industry is paralysed by the pandemic.
Canadian crude selling for “roughly the same price as a Big Mac”
Warren Mabee, the director of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy at Queen’s University, said he "wouldn’t be surprised if Canadian crude prices briefly go negative - a scenario where producers are paying people to take away product.”
Make the Fossil Fuel Industry Pay the $2 Billion Bushfire Recovery Fund
For years, Big Oil and Big Coal have carried on drilling and mining as if they were immune from the consequences of their actions. They knew the risks, but ignored them. Now they must pay.
One Year After Landmark IPCC Report: We have to “Shut Big Oil down or face extreme climate disruption.”
“Rather than planning an orderly decline in production", Big Oil is "doubling down and acting like there is no climate crisis. This presents us with a simple choice: shut them down or face extreme climate disruption.”