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1. Katie Howell – ExxonMobil Bets $600 Million on Algae. Partners with genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter – Scientific American 14/07/2009 – http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=biofuels-algae-exxon-venter
   “»A couple years ago, the petroleum institute said there’s only a couple of years left for oil, and now they’re really finally acting on that,» said Riggs Eckelberry, president and CEO of OriginOil Inc. «Algae is the feedstock to overtake petroleum. It’s the real alternative to petroleum.»
2. ExxonMobil firm launches $7.1 bln oil sands – AFP 25/05/2009 – http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jPs86Mm4_KXlXE4RrJKEkbchhWrg
   “The first phase of the project would produce an average of 110,000 barrels per day starting in late 2012, Imperial Oil said in a statement. It was initially due to come online in 2010 or 2011, but the company delayed its launch, citing a sudden drop in crude oil prices. Canadian authorities had also revoked and then reinstated permits to Imperial Oil to develop the project, criticized by environmentalists a massive potential source of greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming. The Kearl mine is estimated to hold 4.6 billion barrels of bitumen.”
3. Michael Grubb (2001) – Who’s afraid of atmospheric stabilisation? Making the link between energy resources and climate change – Energy Policy 29: 837}845 doi: 10.1016/S0301-4215(00)00128-2 – T.H.Huxley School of Environment and Earth Science, Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London
   “The longer-term problem of climate change arises from the fuller and longer-term use of coal, and of unconventional carbon deposits such as heavy oils, tar sands and oil shales … these resources involve generally higher environmental impacts including significantly higher CO2 emissions per unit energy. Not only are the heavier resources significantly more carbon-intensive in themselves; they also require more energy for processing, in both extraction and in refining to provide useable liquid fuels. The climate change problem is therefore intimately engaged with the strategic energy question.”
4. Joseph Romm – Shame on the New York Times for running ExxonMobil’s greenwashing ad once again – they can’t plead ignorance this time, only greed – Climate Progress, 23/06/2009
   http://climateprogress.org/2009/06/23/new-york-times-exxonmobils-dishonest-ad-once-again-they-cant-plead-ignorance-this-time-only-greed/
   “The NYT apparently thinks that the way to preserve its declining fortunes is by selling (what’s left of) its soul to ExxonMobil … an ad that its senior staff must know is false and misleading.”
5. Rana Foroohar – Big Oil Goes Green for Real – Newsweek 16/09/2009 – http://www.newsweek.com/id/215758?from=rss
   “Oil companies are among the world’s biggest energy users, and will ultimately need to offset emissions. «I believe the large integrated oil firms will eventually become major players—perhaps even the dominant players—in alternative energy,» says Don Paul, a former Chevron executive who now runs the University of Southern California’s Energy Institute.”
6. Joseph Romm – Newsweek gets duped by Big Oil – for real – in worst Big Media story of the year – Climate Progress 20/09/2009 – http://climateprogress.org/2009/09/20/newsweek-gets-duped-by-big-oil-worst-story-of-the-year/
   “Here is the basis of Newsweek’s nonsensical spin: In July, ExxonMobil announced big plans to grow green algae to fuel cars; last week, Chevron unveiled the world’s largest carbon-sequestration project in Australia; and in recent months, Valero, Marathon, and Sunoco carried out a series of acquisitions that resulted in Big Oil controlling 7 percent of the U.S. ethanol business. The list goes on. And this time it’s the real deal. [Pause for laughter to die down.  Pause longer for subsequent crying jag to end.] Since when was corn ethanol green?”
7. Suraje Dessai – An Analysis of the Role of OPEC as a G77 Member at the UNFCCC – Report for WWF – December 2004
   “The Global Climate Coalition (GCC) was the main umbrella organisation for the oil, coal and auto industries response to the global warming issue.6 The focus of GCC lobbying was to highlight the uncertainty of climate science, emphasise the economic cost of Kyoto-type mandated emission reductions, and advocate for developing country commitments. Since 1996 the GCC began to lose members as major oil and car companies, such as BP and Shell, shifted their position on climate change. By 2002, the GCC had withdrawn from the international climate arena altogether.”
8. George Monbiot, Paul Burgess, Michael Tait, Mustafa Khalili and Lindsay Poulton – George Monbiot meets … Jeroen van de Veer – guardian.co.uk – 06/01/2009 – http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/jan/06/george-monbiot-jeroen-van-de-veer – VIDEO: 11:16 min.
9. Terry Macalister – Environment: Tar sands – the new toxic investment – The Guardian 17/09/2008 – http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/17/fossilfuels.carbonemissions
   Shell and BP have been warned by investors that their involvement in unconventional energy production such as Canada’s oil sands could turn out to be the industry’s equivalent of the sub-prime lending”
10. Robin Pagnamenta – Anger as Shell reduces renewables investment – The Times, 18/03/2009 – http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article5927869.ece
    “Jeroen van der Veer, the chief executive, said that Shell, the world’s second-largest non-state-controlled oil company, was planning to drop all new investment in wind, solar and hydrogen energy. “I don’t expect them to grow much at Shell from here, due to portfolio fit and the returns outlook compared to other opportunities …Linda Cook, who heads Shell’s gas and power business, said that wind and solar power ‘struggle to compete with the other investment opportunities we have in our portfolio’”
11. Joseph Romm – BP proves Beyond Petroleum was greenwashing, joins “biggest global warming crime ever seen” – Climate Progress 18/12/2007 – http://climateprogress.org/2007/12/18/bp-beyond-petroleum-greenwashing-canadian-tar-sands/
    “What does BP have to say about the environment in its press release? ‘The result will be the development of a major new Canadian oil field and the modernization and expansion of the Toledo refinery to allow far greater use of Canadian heavy oil and to increase clean fuels production by as much as 600,000 gallons a day’. Clean fuels?! Do they really think we are that ignorant and gullible?”
12. Joseph Romm – BP stand for “back to petroleum” – oil giant shuts clean energy HQ, slashes renewables budget up to $900 million this year, dives into tar sands – Climate Progress 30/06/2009 – http://climateprogress.org/2009/06/30/bp-stand-for-back-to-petroleum-oil-giant-shuts-clean-energy-hq-slashes-renewables-budget/
    “Seriously, they gut the program and claim it is “reinforcement” of their commitment.  Perhaps BP stands for “Beyond Prevarication” or “Beyond Pinocchio.””
13. Joseph Fargione, Jason Hill, David Tilman, Stephen Polasky, Peter Hawthorne (2008) – Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt – Science 319:1235-1238 – 29/02/2008 – The Nature Conservancy, Minneapolis; Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota; Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota
    “Converting rainforests, peatlands, savannas, or grasslands to produce food crop–based biofuels in Brazil, Southeast Asia, and the United States creates a “biofuel carbon debt” by releasing 17 to 420 times more CO2 than the annual greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions that these biofuels would provide by displacing fossil fuels. In contrast, biofuels made from waste biomass or from biomass grown on degraded and abandoned agricultural lands planted with perennials incur little or no carbon debt and can offer immediate and sustained GHG advantages.”
14. Sharon Beder – Ecos Corp’s «Win-Win» Spin for Corporate Environmentalism – PR Watch.org 2bd quarter, 2002 – http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2002Q2/ecos.html
    “PR Watch first reported in 1999 on the activities of the Ecos Corporation, an «environmental PR» firm founded in 1995 by former Greenpeace International executive director Paul Gilding … by recruiting Ben Woodhouse, a former PR executive and vice president at Dow Chemical. In 1999 Ecos only had a modest staff of six others operating from an old church in a suburb of Sydney, Australia … Behind this ideological façade, however, Ecos is quite pragmatic about the reputation management service it offers to corporations. In the Australian Financial Review, Gilding explained to a business audience that environmental issues are no longer about morality. It is time, he said, to accept reality: «We are there to service the interests of our clients.”
15. Informe de Sistenibilidad 2008 – Comité Independiente de Expertos: Informe de Conclusiones y Respuestas de Iberdrola a las preguntas del Comité – Iberdrola
16. The seven sins of greenwashing – http://sinsofgreenwashing.org/
    “Green-wash (green’wash’, -wôsh’) – verb: the act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or service.”
17. Jeniffer Ortega – Mentiras verdes: creencias engañosas en el tema ambiental – Psicología Ambiental 27/09/2009 – http://psicologia-ambiental.com/mentiras-verdes-creencias-enganosas-en-el-tema-ambiental.html
    “Nuestra cultura ambiental está llena de creencias inexactas que nos llevan a comportarnos de forma contraria a la ideal … El Greenwashing funciona en parte gracias a un fenómeno denominado asimetría de la información con un profundo impacto a nivel económico, social y moral. Una persona que compra un producto con publicidad verde puede estar ignorando que la fabricación de dicho producto generó impactos ambientales significativos aunque su uso final tenga un impacto nulo o reducido sobre el entorno. Esto ocurre porque se encuentra en desventaja respecto a la cantidad y calidad de la información que posee al momento de tomar decisiones.”
18. Psychology of Climate Change Communication – Center for research on Environmental Decisions – http://www.cred.columbia.edu/guide/guide/sec4.html
    “Single Action Bias: In response to uncertain and risky situations, humans have a tendency to focus and simplify their decision making. Individuals responding to a threat are likely to rely on one action, even when it provides only incremental protection or risk reduction and may not be the most effective option. People often take no further action, presumably because the first one succeeded in reducing their feeling of worry or vulnerability. This phenomenon is called the single action bias … Nate Silver, of the polling blog FiveThirtyEight.com, argues that Democrats increasingly believe the environment is improving simply based on Obama’s election, whereas the number of Republicans who say the environment is improving has remained about the same since 2008.”
19. Michael Barker (2006) – Taking the risk out of civil society: harnessing social movements and regulating revolutions – Refereed paper presented to the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Newcastle – 25-27/09/2006
    “At some point, activists in democratic countries may have to rely solely on corporate funding from ‘socially responsible’ corporations. Already corporate spending on political philanthropy is massive and a recent study of Fortune 500 companies estimated that … The clear picture that emerges… is that CSR [Corporate Social Responsibility] is a resource that corporations can and do use to advance their objectives in the political arena (ref).”
20. Ben Elgin – Green. Up to a Point – Business Week 20/02/2008 – http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_09/b4073000596425.htm
    “Behind the scenes, however, several companies that belong to USCAP are simultaneously supporting efforts and organizations that oppose mandatory cuts in greenhouse gases or promote policies that would make the USCAP reductions nearly impossible to meet.”
21. 100 blogs y un objetivo: conocer todas las opiniones sobre el cambio climático – Unión Fenosa-Efiquest 17/06/2009 – http://www.efiquest.es/100-post-sobre-cambio-climatico/index.php

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