Tag Archives: Oil

Oil Industry Profits and Windfall Taxes

Posted on October 22, 2008 by

Tabloid headlines are obsessed with the notion that big oil equals big profits. Type “Shell” into online media search engines and up pop the following examples: “Shell’s ‘obscene’ £13.9billion profit is biggest ever by British company” (Daily Mail); “Shell records … Continue reading →

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Brown Envelopes from Big Oil

Posted on June 25, 2008 by

Following my Climate Seminar on Monday, the questions and insinuations from the press are starting to come in.  Of course no one would argue against anthropogenic global warming unless they had been bought and paid for by the oil industry.  … Continue reading →

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