https://www.europesays.com/2045662/ Victims in deadly Port Arthur LNG scaffolding collapse file lawsuit against companies – Houston Public Media #business #ConocoPhillips #court #GasPrice #HarrisCounty #LiquefiedNaturalGas #lng #LNGPrice #local #NaturalGas #News #PortArthurLNG #ScaffoldingCollapse #Sempra #WrongfulDeathLawsuit
One of the workers who was injured in a scaffolding collapse this week at the Port Arthur LNG facility, along with surviving relatives of two of the workers who died, are seeking more than $1 million in a lawsuit filed in Harris County.
https://www.europesays.com/1919929/ Seabed surveys on ConocoPhillips’ agenda for April ahead of drilling ops offshore Australia #australia #ConocoPhillips #GasPrice #LiquefiedNaturalGas #lng #LNGPrice #NaturalGas #OffshoreDrilling #OilAndGas #OtwayBasin #SeabedSurveys
No surprise...!
Oil and gas lobbying reaches $72 million in first half of 2024
By Molly Taylor
August 15, 2024
"The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers led the oil and gas industry in federal lobbying expenditures in the first half of 2024, marking the first time the trade association outspent the top individual companies in the industry.
"The trade association, which represents 450 fuel refining and petrochemical companies, leads the oil and gas industry with $8.1 million in federal lobbying expenditures over the first half of 2024. This level of spending marks a shift in influence, as individual oil and gas companies have typically outspent the trade association by millions of dollars.
"The oil and gas industry altogether spent $72 million on federal lobbying in the first six months of 2024 as the #EPA introduced some of its strongest-ever regulations to reduce #FossilFuel emissions. The industry is on track to exceed last year’s expenditures, which totaled $137 million after adjustment for inflation, and is the fifth-highest lobbying industry of the year.
"The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers emerged as the top spender after doubling its federal lobbying expenditures from 2022. Between 2016 and 2022, the trade organization spent, on average, $3.4 million annually without adjusting for inflation. In 2023, spending jumped to $6.9 million in 2023.
"In the first six months of 2024, the American Fuel and #Petrochemical
Manufacturers has already spent more on federal lobbying than any prior year."
Tribes Sue Six Oil Giants for #ClimateDeception
"These oil companies knew their products were dangerous, yet they did nothing to mitigate those dangers or warn any of us about them, for decades," said the chairwoman of the #ShoalwaterBay Indian Tribe.
Julia Conley
Dec 20, 2023
"Two Indigenous tribes in #WashingtonState said Wednesday that they intend to force several oil giants 'to help pay for the high costs of surviving the catastrophe caused by the #ClimateCrisis,' as they filed lawsuits in the state's largest trial court.
"The #Makah Indian Tribe and Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe filed two separate complaints in King County Superior Court against #ExxonMobil, #Shell, #Chevron, #BP, #ConocoPhillips, and #Phillips66, saying the defendants must be held 'accountable for their deceptive and unfair conduct, and pay for the damage their deceptive conduct has caused and will cause for decades to come.'
"The lawsuits—among dozens filed against #BigOil since 2017—detail the extent to which the companies have long known that their fossil fuel extraction would drive planetary heating and the resulting #SeaLevelRise, #ExtremeWeather, #PublicHealth crises, and other impacts of the climate crisis, which now costs the U.S. roughly $150 billion per year just in damages from #hurricanes and other weather disasters.
"'We are seeing the effects of the climate crisis on our people, our land, and our resources. The costs and consequences to us are overwhelming,' said Timothy Greene Sr., chairman of the Makah Tribal Council. 'We intend to hold these companies accountable for hiding the truth about climate change and the effects of burning fossil fuels.'"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/tribes-sue-oil-companies
#ExxonLied #BigOilLied #Lawsuits #IndigenousPeoples #ClimateCrisis #LandStewards #Stewardship #IndigenousNews
#NativeAmericanNews
but it can injure or even kill #PolarBears. It creates loud noises that can scare polar bear mothers away from their dens and #cubs. #ThumperTrucks can run over undetected dens.
#Caribou herds would also be put at risk. The herd migrates through the area where #ConocoPhillips has proposed seismic activity, and surveys could separate caribou from their #HistoricBreedingGrounds.
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NO SEISMIC BLASTING IN THE ARCTIC
#ConocoPhillips, an oil and gas giant, is seeking approval to conduct #SeismicBlasting in search of #oil and #gas in the #Arctic.
ConocoPhillips' seismic application, which was submitted to the #Biden administration, requests testing across more than 270,000 acres of the Arctic. It would involve months of dragging heavy thumper trucks and other machinery across a fragile #ecosystem.
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This project would, “add about 260 million metric tons of carbon emissions into the atmosphere over the next 30 years, the equivalent of an extra two million cars on the road each year for 30 years."
#Biden
#Interior Department
Deb #Haaland
#Willow project #ConocoPhillips
#ClimateBomb
#Indigenous
#Earthjustice
#Climate
The proposed rules also come on the heels of the Biden administration's approval of the disastrous and dangerous project known as #Willow, a #ConocoPhillips oil development in the reserve.
The Arctic can't withstand more oil and gas development. Urge the Biden administration to take bold action to keep the #WesternArctic wild and free.
- Center for Biological Diversity
#ProtectOurWildlife #EndFossilFuels
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#California sues oil companies claiming they downplayed the risk of #fossilfuels
> Civil lawsuit filed by the state targets #Exxon Mobil, #Shell, #Chevron, #ConocoPhillips and #BP
#California sues five major oil companies for ‘decades-long campaign of deception’ about #climate #change
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-16/california-sues-five-major-oil-companies-for-lying-about-climate-change
#Exxon Mobil, #Shell , #Chevron, #ConocoPhillips, #BP and the American Petroleum Institute
ThinkProgress: #Energy and #GlobalWarming Novermber 13. 2009: #Energy industry gives heavily to #SenateFinance panel
"The findings underscore the paradoxical role #Texas plays in the energy world. As home to #ExxonMobil and #ConocoPhillips, it spews more carbon dioxide than any other state in the U.S., and more even than all of Canada. That’s one reason the state’s political leadership is at war with the Obama administration over cap-and-trade plans -- jobs in the oil patch could suffer mightily.
"On the other hand, Texas’ unusual combination of windy prairies, available transmission lines and a wide-open attitude toward energy investment helped the western part of the state become the wind-power capital of the country in less than a decade, further helping reduce emissions." (!!!)
When #ConocoPhillips begins drilling in #Alaska at the now approved by Biden #Willow project, they have a problem.
Their Carbon Bomb will accelerate the global warming which is already melting & destabilizing the permafrost their drilling rigs will sit on.
So what do you do? Say "Hmm. maybe this isn't such a good idea after all?"
Nope, you expend even more energy and release more CO2 to freeze the permafrost just around your rigs. #ClimateChange
6 #environmental groups filed a #lawsuit on Tuesday over the #Biden administration’s approval of #ConocoPhillips Willow oil & gas project in #Alaska , which they claimed could be a stepping stone to more development in an #EcologicallySensitive region.
#TrusteesForAlaska , #AlaskaWildernessLeague , #SierraClub , #WildernessSociety & other groups.
@Radical_EgoCom
Personally, I'm glad that enough Americans voted for Democrats so that Biden could block 40% of the #WillowProject that the Trump administration leased to #ConocoPhillips. That's a lot of #ClimateAction
“Biden continues to address #climatechange during high-profile speeches and events but his actions are contradictory,” said Siqiniq Maupin, executive director of the Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living #Arctic
#StopWillow #conocophillips #alaska #oildrilling #keepitintheground #willow #biden #algore
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/10/al-gore-biden-alaska-oil-drilling-willow-development
