This is easily one of the greatest acts of creative direct action ever perpetrated on the oil industry. Bravo Yes Men! Imposters posing as ExxonMobil and National Petroleum Council (NPC) representatives delivered an outrageous keynote speech to 300 oilmen at GO-EXPO, Canada’s largest oil conference, held at Stampede Park in Calgary, Alberta, today. The speech … Read More
Author: Steve Kretzmann
Following the Green
Sunday’s London Independent contains a fascinating little story entitled “Feelgood funding blocks eco-warriors“. Apparently the UK’s top grant giving institutions are more interested in funding conservation and species preservation, than they are in addressing systemic change to stop the root causes of those problems. Not that its news that charismatic mega-fauna equal mega bucks for … Read More
Dems Point to Chinese Oil Grab, Ignore Their Own
It turns out the Democrats latest War Supplemental does contain language that takes on the oil industry – only its Sudan they’re concerned about, not Iraq. According to UPI, a provision in the Bill “mandates that the Secretary of the Treasury, in coordination with the Securities and Exchange Commission and in consultation with the departments … Read More
Iraqi Oil Workers Address US Congress
Just as the New York Times reports on billions in missing Iraqi Oil (see below), Hasan Jum’a Awwad, Head of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, has urged Congress “not to link withdrawal with the oil law”: Open Letter to: “The Members of the US Congress who Oppose the War on Iraq [and] Members of … Read More
Iraqi Union Set to Strike over Oil Law
UPDATE 5/14 – the strike deadline has now been moved until Thursday May 17th. Take Action to Urge the US Congress to drop the Iraqi Oil Law “Benchmark” Oil Strike Postponed for Negotiations with Prime Minister Monday May 14th – The Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions has postponed its’ strike for this week. A 7-member … Read More
Ronald Jonkers: Big Oil’s Man in Iraq
You knew he had to be there, even if we didn’t know his name before. As ace reporter Daphne Eviatar reveals in this month’s American Lawyer, Ronald Jonkers is the oil industry’s man in Iraq – and US taxpayers are picking up the bill. Jonkers unfortunately wouldn’t comment for the article – and apparently few … Read More
Raise your hand if you think Wolfowitz must go
The Wolfowitz must go campaign, which we at Oil Change support for a wide variety of reasons – including the fact that Bank lending for oil increased by more than 75% last year – is now in high gear. ParkRidge47, who created the now famous Obama / Think Different ad, has done a brilliant satire … Read More
“End Oil Aid” Bill introduced
Environmental organizations today applauded Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) for introducing legislation that seeks to end subsidies for the international operations of oil companies. The “End Oil Aid” bill, introduced yesterday, calls on international financial institutions including the World Bank, Export Import Bank and Overseas Private Investment Corporation to stop financing oil and gas projects. “Oil … Read More
G8 debates real climate action as Bank support for fossils rising
Oil Change Press Release, 4/13/07 – A leaked draft G8 Summit Declaration reveals that G8 leaders are considering an historic breakthrough in the fight against climate change at the upcoming G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany. Despite the concern over climate, the draft ignores hundreds of billions of dollars in fossil fuel subsidies including increasing levels … Read More
Iraqi Oil Unions – Key Opposition
A pair of recent articles from UPI correspondent Ben Lando, here and here, flesh out the details as to the importance of Iraq’s oil unions and their long and storied past. The unions, which have been cut out of the process of drafting the oil law (while the US and British governments, the International Monetary … Read More