"Big Oil" To Join Fight Against Global Warming?

[Jack Kelly]

Exxon Cuts Ties to Global Warming Skeptics

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011207EB.shtml

YESssssss!

[Godiva]

Well, as more and more people become not only more aware of Global Warming but concerned about what companies are contributing to it and that they cannot influence opinion, they're going to want to be on the "winning" side. Opinion polls have their place. In this I think Exxon Mobile is a little smarter than the Big 3. I also think Exxon Mobile and the other companies are looking at how they can cash in on the new technology that is going to come out of this and how they are going to maintain their hold on energy. Since Sunlight and Wind are free, they'll have to look at some other way to become a middle man.

[tripp]

Both Shell and BP are in the solar business. BP also is in wind.

[F8L]

I wonder if this plays any part at all? Could be just propaganda but my source that links me to this stuff usually ends up right. *shrug*

Months after the US invasion of Iraq—and after a long legal battle with the White House—it was revealed that control of Iraq’s oil fields was one of the chief issues discussed in Vice President Dick Cheney’s Energy Task Force meeting with oil executives in 2001. Among the items released under court order were maps of Iraq’s oil fields, pipelines and refineries, with a supporting list of “Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts,” naming more than 60 firms from 30 countries, most prominently France, Russia and China, that had projects either agreed upon or under discussion with Baghdad. The French giant, Total, for example, was to get the 25-billion barrel Majnoon oil field, while Russia’s Lukoil had deals to develop the West Qurna fields.

The Independent article on the new hydrocarbon law noted that it was doubtful that these contracts would be considered valid by the Iraqi government, and that “ExxonMobil is now seen by insiders as the frontrunner to nab the rights to the Majnoon field.”
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?con...;articleId=4417

[Godiva]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(F8L @ Jan 13 2007, 04:02 AM) [snapback]375101[/snapback]</div>

I wonder if this plays any part at all? Could be just propaganda but my source that links me to this stuff usually ends up right. *shrug*
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?con...;articleId=4417
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So, that war *was* all about oil after all?

Gee, big surprise.

Anyone still want to impeach Bush so Cheney can move up to be President?

Thought so.

[Jack Kelly]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(F8L @ Jan 13 2007, 01:02 AM) [snapback]375101[/snapback]</div>

I wonder if this plays any part at all? Could be just propaganda but my source that links me to this stuff usually ends up right. *shrug*
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?con...;articleId=4417
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Gosh, could it be...a 6-year-old quid pro quo...?

"No coalition of the willing, no Majnoon (and Total's just a breakfast cereal <_< )"?

Nah...