Tag: Oil

"This project threatens some of our most basic American values; I think you'll find the people in Pennsylvania care a lot about public safety especially of their most vulnerable residents – children and seniors."

"Civilization requires energy, but energy use must not destroy civilization."

Even when shale oil CEOs do fall, and wipe out billions in other people’s money, their falls seem to be cushioned with more cash.

"This is Trump's energy dominance policy at work, where nothing matters except fossil-fuel interests."

“To be blunt, they’re full of it.”

Despite such fence-sitting over the science, the company knows action is necessary, which makes Shell's continued huge investments in fossil fuels for the next two decades all the more intriguing.

The backdrop to this tension is Millennium’s impending drilling on a crossing of the Neversink River, less than a mile from a bald eagle’s nest, as part of its Eastern System Upgrade project.

Cleanup is still ongoing. So far, more than 50 large dump trucks full of soil have been removed with more to come.

Should Canadians be able to sue oil companies for that?

Drilling agreements on the books before 1982 have been allowed to continue, and that's where ExxonMobil, Koch, and other companies come into play.