Oil Change International

Posts in offshore drilling

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  Banking on Climate Change: Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2017

  Kelly Trout, June 21, 2017
  Big banks’ business as usual is killing the climate. From 2014 to 2016, big banks around the world poured $290 billion into extreme fossil fuel companies and failed to respect human rights.
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  Trump’s Interior budget: More drilling, more mining, more handouts

  Janet Redman, June 20, 2017
  The myth that opening up more public lands and waters for fossil fuel production will result in a windfall for America is dead wrong. The only windfall from this production is enjoyed by oil, gas, and coal executives.
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  Interior budget boosts fossil fuels, cuts renewables funding

  Janet Redman, June 20, 2017
  In a huge industry giveaway, Trump’s Department of Interior budget increases funding for oil, gas, and coal expansion by more than $34 million – and slashes renewable energy by at least $15 million.
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  RELEASE: Taxpayers on the hook for billions in subsidies for fossil fuels on public lands

  David Turnbull, May 24, 2017
  The U.S. government is providing extensive support for fossil fuel production on public lands and waters offshore, through a combination of direct subsidies, enforcement loopholes, lax royalty collection, stagnant lease rates, and other advantages to the industry, a new report released today finds.
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  Unequal Exchange: How Taxpayers Shoulder the Burden of Fossil Fuel Development on Federal Lands

  Janet Redman, May 24, 2017
  A new report examines the extensive support for fossil fuel production on public lands and waters, provided by the U.S. government to the fossil fuel industry through a combination of direct subsidies, enforcement loopholes, lax royalty collection, and stagnant lease rates.
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  President Obama just applied the Climate Test to Arctic drilling

  David Turnbull, December 21, 2016
  A closer look at the withdrawal of Arctic waters from offshore drilling shows a critically important detail to how the White House made this decision: They used a climate test as one of the rationales for ending drilling in the Arctic.
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  Oil Change International statement on offshore drilling announcement

  David Turnbull, December 20, 2016
  We congratulate President Obama for this historic action. As he knows, and as he stated when he rejected Keystone XL, ‘if we’re going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we’re going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground.
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  The Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 people. Then BP made you and me pay for it.

  Alex Doukas, October 20, 2016
  BP was responsible for Deepwater Horizon, a disaster that killed 11 people and caused one of worst oil spills ever – and then they made us foot the bill.
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  BP’s New Plans to Drill the Great Australian Bight Criticised

  Andy Rowell, August 22, 2016
  Despite growing international condemnation, oil giant BP seems intent on drilling in the highly sensitive Great Australian Bight off the country’s southern coast, which is home to one of the largest breeding populations of endangered southern right whales in the world.
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  White House Responds to Keep It In the Ground Petition

  David Turnbull, May 17, 2016
  That the White House was forced to officially respond to this petition is yet another indication of the growing power of the Keep It In The Ground movement.