{"id":5067,"date":"2022-12-09T10:58:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T18:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=5067"},"modified":"2022-12-09T11:42:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T19:42:27","slug":"big-oil-talks-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/12\/09\/big-oil-talks-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Oil talks \u2018transition\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big Oil talks \u2018transition\u2019 but perpetuates petroleum, House documents say<\/a>
\nA House committee, accusing oil companies of deception, releases a trove of internal documents revealing how these firms view the \u2018energy transition\u2019<\/p>\n

By Steven Mufson and Timothy Puko December 9, 2022<\/p>\n

Some of the world\u2019s major oil companies remain internally skeptical about the \u201cenergy transition\u201d to a low-carbon economy, even as they publicly portray their firms as partners in the cause, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post that a House committee released Friday.<\/p>\n

The documents are part of a trove obtained by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform during a year-long investigation. They reveal oil company executives dismissing the potential for renewable energy to quickly replace fossil fuels, while working to secure a future for natural gas. They also detail industry efforts to secure government tax credits for carbon capture projects that might relieve them of the need to drastically alter their business models.<\/p>\n

The documents \u2014 many of them copies of internal emails between oil company officials \u2014 describe ExxonMobil\u2019s efforts in 2021 to persuade big industrial firms and oil giants to co-sponsor a mammoth carbon capture project in Texas. Elsewhere, in one email string, officials at Shell discuss whether BP, Shell and TotalEnergies \u2014 a French oil firm \u2014 increased their carbon footprints by selling Canadian oil sands interests to more eager investors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

POLITICO By Ben Lefebvre and Zack Colman 12\/09\/2022 <\/a><\/p>\n

Energy & Environment – House Oversight Committee accuses oil companies of \u2018lying\u2019 about climate actions<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Exxon blasted the committee\u2019s release as cherry picking internal documents to cast the industry in a poor light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Big Oil talks \u2018transition\u2019 but perpetuates petroleum, House documents say A House committee, accusing oil companies of deception, releases a trove of internal documents revealing how these firms view the \u2018energy transition\u2019 By Steven Mufson and Timothy Puko December 9, 2022 Some of the world\u2019s major oil companies remain internally skeptical about the \u201cenergy transition\u201d … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3061,6,9,2308,13,3279],"tags":[3963,2213,4293,352,353,4292,2162,4296,3980,4290,4287,4286,4295,4294,4289,3161,4074,4288,2214,4297,4291,2993],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-5067","6":"format-standard","7":"category-environment","8":"category-ethical-and-green-living","9":"category-finanace","10":"category-future-of-work","11":"category-politics","12":"category-the-anthropocene","13":"post_tag-3963","14":"post_tag-bp","15":"post_tag-canadian-oil-sands","16":"post_tag-carbon","17":"post_tag-carbon-capture","18":"post_tag-carbon-footprints","19":"post_tag-climate-science","20":"post_tag-economy","21":"post_tag-energy-transition","22":"post_tag-exxonmobil","23":"post_tag-house-committee","24":"post_tag-house-committee-on-oversight-and-reform","25":"post_tag-low-carbon","26":"post_tag-low-carbon-economy","27":"post_tag-oil-company","28":"post_tag-oversight","29":"post_tag-politico","30":"post_tag-reform","31":"post_tag-shell","32":"post_tag-the-american-petroleum-institute","33":"post_tag-totalenergies","34":"post_tag-u-s-chamber-of-commerce"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5070,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067\/revisions\/5070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}