Outlook Thanks to the merger of meetings Exxon and Mobil oil companies in 1999, ExxonMobil, now the largest-corporation in the world.
appalling to US President Bush dating back to his days as a failed oil executive, and then as governor of Texas. campaign contribution: $1.2m to his Presidential and lobbying cover >i1 mion I 17772 8 has clearly bought influence used to Indeed Bush's energy pol icy reads as if it were by ExxonMobil: build a new power plant every week for the next twenty years, with heavy emphasis on drilling Arctic Refuge - and build more oil refineries.
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denies any responsibility for climate change, and openly funds climate sceptics. It has spent millions on advertis While some other oil companies have taken tentative steps to invest energy it remains the recalcitrant dinosaur of the industry.
This powerful multinational has lobbied hard to ensure Congress agrees drilling programme in the Arctic devastating effect the CyrOBBICHE They brush off the fact that these plans are completely opposed bottom prices In the run up to the FTAA in Quebec City in ExxonMobil Twelve major press advertisements supporting the FTAA record in many The company operates for around $530,000 per complicity Scoressive regimes. exploitation of indi. geneous peoples and destruc- atrocities tion of the environment.
In Aceh, Indonesia, human proups report ExxonMobil provided earth Other moving equipment that was include land graves. equipped soldiers involved rocksca. and allowed company facilities to be used have Environment for torture and interrogation. homes.
ExxonMobil is victims to the mass graves. part of an internagraves have tional consortium occa acanca, with at least or on companics 2,000 Acehnese torture vic- lobbying the World Bank has spent finance an oil and pipeline from on security forces. Acch has Chad Cameroon, slashing through frag sle rainforest and attempt to crush the inde- the traditional homelands of the issues Acch seizures with peoples, indige80U3 fields flooded with liquid ties hunterwaste, and explosions which gatherers.
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