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01/05/2003 ExxonMobil's income has tripled in the first quarter, largely due to high oil prices... from the war in Iraq. The world's biggest publicly traded oil producer on Thursday posted earnings of $7.04 billion, or $1.05 a share, compared with $2.09 billion, or 30 cents a share, a year earlier. These are the first of many benefits to come to the oil industry from a war on Iraq, where 112.5 billion barrels of oil are waiting below the desert to be, eventually, pumped into the atmosphere. New war links: Crude Vision: Bechtel and Rumsfeld [Previous entry: "Shareholder protest rises"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Alaska warms up"] |
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Latest Campaign News KYOTO MARCH - Saturday 12 February 2005 In February the Kyoto Protocol finally comes into force. Join the Campaign Against Climate Change on a march in central London to mark the occassion by protesting the US' refusal to join the Protocol. Assemble at Lincoln's Inn Fields at 11.30. For more information go to www.campaign againstclimatechange.net Esso up to old tricks on Kyoto Governments from around the world met in Buenos Aires to discuss protecting the climate under the Kyoto Protocol. Greenpeace sent a delegation to the conference to keep an eye on the activities of Esso and other fossil fuel lobbies.more "Global warming is a conspiracy against America" As a taste of what is to come during a second Bush term Myron Ebell, an advisor to President Bush on climate issues, recently argued that global warming is a myth cooked up by the EU to 'hamper American competitiveness'... more Russia Ratifies The Russian parliament have voted to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, which brings the treaty into force... more Chief Scientist: we need immediate action on climate change "Action is affordable, inaction is certainly not," says Sir David King, the UK governments chief scientist...more |
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