HT @wendysiegelman

#Venezuela accuses US of plotting ‘false flag attack’ on Guyana oil platform

Venezuela’s VP said US Sect of State Marco Rubio and #Blackwater founder Erik Prince were behind alleged attack plan to blame Caracas for an attack on oil giant #ExxonMobil in neighboring #Guyana

#ErikPrince #MarcoRubio #Venezuela #FalseFlag #ErikPrinceColonialism #Oiligarchy

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3305449/venezuela-accuses-us-plotting-false-flag-attack-guyana-oil-platform

Ride a bike

Exxon Is Quietly Planning New $8.6 Billion Plastics Plant for Texas’s Gulf Coast
https://truthout.org/articles/exxon-is-quietly-planning-new-8-6-billion-plastics-plant-for-texass-gulf-coast/

Tenk så mye bedre det var før i tiden, da #ExxonMobil bare la sine egne forskningsresultater om #klimakrise nederst i den dypeste skuffen de fant. Nå som katta er ute av sekken må de tydeligvis ty til hacking av andres mobiler for å kunne ture frem som før :'(

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/01/exxonmobil-lobbyist-caught-hacking-climate-activists.html

#ExxonMobil Lobbyist Caught Hacking #Climate Activists

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/01/exxonmobil-lobbyist-caught-hacking-climate-activists.html

"The FBI has been investigating a longtime Exxon Mobil consultant over the contractor's alleged role in a hack-and-leak operation that targeted hundreds of the oil company’s biggest critics, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The operation involved mercenary hackers who successfully breached the email accounts of environmental activists and others, the sources told Reuters.

The scheme allegedly began in late 2015, when U.S. authorities contend that the names of the hacking targets were compiled by the DCI Group, a public affairs and lobbying company working for Exxon at the time, one of the sources said. DCI provided the names to an Israeli private detective, who then outsourced the hacking, according to the source.

In an effort to push a narrative that Exxon was the target of a political vendetta aimed at destroying its business, some of the stolen material was subsequently leaked to the media by DCI, Reuters determined. The Federal Bureau of Investigation found that DCI shared the information with Exxon before leaking it, the source said."

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-lobbyist-investigated-over-hack-and-leak-environmentalist-emails-sources-2024-11-27/

#BigOil firms knew of dire effects of #FossilFuels as early as 1950s, memos show

Newly unearthed documents contain warning from head of #AirPollutionFoundation, founded in 1953 by oil interests

Dharna Noor
Tue 12 Nov 2024 10.00 EST

"Major oil companies, including #Shell and precursors to energy giants #Chevron, #ExxonMobil and #BP, were alerted about the planet-warming effects of fossil fuels as early as 1954, newly unearthed documents show.

The warning, from the head of an industry-created group known as the Air Pollution Foundation, was revealed by Climate Investigations Center and published Tuesday by the climate website DeSmog. It represents what may be the earliest instance of big oil being informed of the potentially dire consequences of its products.

"'Every time there’s a push for #ClimateAction, [we see] fossil fuel companies downplay and deny the harms of burning fossil fuels,' said Rebecca John, a researcher at the Climate Investigations Center who uncovered the historic memos. 'Now we have evidence they were doing this way back in the 50s during these really early attempts to crack down on sources of pollution.'"

Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/12/big-oil-fossil-fuel-warning

Big oil firms knew of dire effects of fossil fuels as early as 1950s, memos show https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/12/big-oil-fossil-fuel-warning #Fossilfuels #Environment #ExxonMobil #Chevron #USnews #Shell #Oil #Gas #BP

#ExxonMobil says advanced #recycling is the answer to #plastic waste. But is it really?

NO, they are just burning it, while ramping up its virgin plastic production!

UCLA researcher who studied the issue blames misperceptions about plastic recycling on "an industry-backed #misinformation campaign." He agrees that the reality is "having to burn more oil to turn that plastic back into oil, which you then burn."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/exxon-mobil-says-advanced-recycling-100018708.html #fossilfuel

How #fossilfuels mutated #Milton.
#Climate #scientists - historic #storm represents "the profound irresponsibility, culpability" of #polluters. #ExxonMobil scientists warned continued #fossilfuel #burning would lead 2 “potentially #catastrophic events" those catastrophes represent “profound irresponsibility, culpability of fossil fuel industry that knowingly hid evidence of tremendous danger of their product to humanity, the planet. A whole higher category of crime.” https://heated.world/p/how-fossil-fuels-mutated-milton

excellent “For decades, ExxonMobil has been deceiving the public to convince us that plastic recycling could solve the plastic waste and pollution crisis when they clearly knew this wasn’t possible,” Bonta said in a statement.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/23/california-exxon-plastics-lawsuit #plastic #exxonMobil #california

Understandably emotional update from meteorologist John Morales, as #Hurricane #Milton hits Category 5 status.

TIL that a man named Bryan Milton was President of ExxonMobil Fuels and Lubricants until 2020, after being with the company for over 30 years, so we should consider Hurricane Milton, and all the damage it causes, Bryan Milton's hurricane.

ExxonMobil abandon their Fawley CO2 (CCS) pipeline project.

#Fawley #ExxonMobil #carboncapture #oil #gas

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4glw4dyw8no

#ExxonMobil Accused of “Deceptively” Promoting Chemical #Recycling as a Solution for the #Plastics Crisis
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The #California attorney general’s lawsuit, which cites ProPublica reporting, alleges that products made with Exxon’s process contain only a small fraction of the recycled #plastic that they claim to have.

https://www.propublica.org/article/exxonmobil-plastics-recycling-pyrolysis-lawsuit-california

A former employee of #Microsoft speaks up about the company’s hypocrisy. Although Microsoft committed to fight #climateChange, amongst others by the usage of #AI, it sells this very same technology and custom applications and infrastructure based on it to #fossilFuel companies like #Shell, #ExxonMobil, #Chevron or #Halliburton …

Even #Google refuses to build custom applications that would support the #oilIndustry !!

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/09/microsoft-ai-oil-contracts/679804/

(Via @NotPatrick)