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Exposing ExxonMobil's GW Disinformation Campaign

by reposted Friday, Feb. 02, 2007 at 5:34 PM

Besides the Bush Administration's efforts to withhold and distort science on global warming, Exxon, who today released earnings figures that broke their previous record for profits by any corporation in history, has been paying many pseudo-science hacks to argue the facts and keep the public confused. Here is a comment from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the matter.

“Exxon has responded to roars of recent outrage over its anti-social antics by announcing that it has stopped funding the Competitive Enterprise Institute which has collected over $2 million from the oil giant since 1998 to weave lies about climate change - and 4-5 other groups that Exxon refused to name. Exxon’s new contrition is hardly sincere. The company still continues to fund 40 other groups in its unrelenting campaign of deception… As evidence of the company’s insincerity, Exxon’s chief executive and CEO Rex Tillerson, on Friday told world leaders in Davos that oil companies should not be held esponsible for global warming. The blame, he argued, rests instead with the very consumers and government officials his company has spent millions of dollars manipulating and defrauding. America is a decade late in addressing the serious threat from global warming largely due to ExxonMobil’s campaign of deliberate deception. ExxonMobil’s conduct amounts to a war on civilization. The company can’t simply sweep this legacy of fraud and villainy under the rug with a paid op-ed campaign in the New York Times, or with oily statements shifting the blame to consumers. The company needs to cease its campaign of deception completely if it is to genuinely atone for its crimes against humanity.”

Found on the Climate Crisis Coalition website on 1/30/07, originally posted to the Huffington Post"
http://www.climatecrisiscoalition.org/blog/
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Exxon-Mobil's refinery air pollution

by higher cancer rates in refinery towns Friday, Feb. 02, 2007 at 9:40 PM

Then there's the flat out denial of the higher rates of cancer in refinery towns like Beaumont, TX correlating with Exxon-Mobil's petrochemical emissions..

"Although Spindletop evokes images of the glory days in the Texas oil industry, residents of Beaumont living near the modern day Mobil/Exxon oil refinery are suffering under the nearly 39,000 pounds of air pollution spewed out of the complex each year. The massive Mobil complex consists of a huge refinery, three chemical plants, and several other facilities. Despite years of violations, exceedingly high emissions of sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide, and complaints and health problems in the surrounding neighborhoods, the state environmental regulatory agency--the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) has not issued any formal enforcement actions against the company since 1993.

Environmental Injustice

Despite Mobil's record, the TNRCC issued a permit allowing the facility to increase emissions in 1999--over the objections of neighboring residents and without allowing the public to challenge the expansion in a hearing. The TNRCC's failure to regulate the facility is compounded by a disturbing fact: 95% of the people living next to the Mobil complex are African American, with almost 54% of them living in poverty. Rev. Malveaux says that the Beaumont minority community is similar to others in Texas such as in Corpus Christi; "it's the poor, the minority, the disenfranchised, the children, the elderly; [and] they have no idea how to overcome their situation." He said that repeated fires, spills and explosions in the industrial plants forced the residents to begin scrutinizing their corporate neighbors. "In Port Arthur, we found a large amount of MTBE in the air, there was a school near, three churches near there, a housing project right there." In the early 1990's, these discoveries and others led Rev. Malveaux to found PACE, People Against Contaminated Environments, to protect the people from the industrial pollution from the refinery complex."

read on @;
http://www.txpeer.org/toxictour/beaumont.html

So how does Exxon-Mobil's PR firm explain this away? The CEO of Exxon-Mobil is rewarding himself with billions of dollars of profits while residents living near the refinery are suffering from higher rates of cancers, leukemias and other illness directly correlated with the emissions from the Exxon-Mobil refinery??


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How do they get away with it?

by They lie Saturday, Feb. 03, 2007 at 3:08 AM

So how does Exxon-Mobil's PR firm explain this away? The CEO of Exxon-Mobil is rewarding himself with billions of dollars of profits while residents living near the refinery are suffering from higher rates of cancers, leukemias and other illness directly correlated with the emissions from the Exxon-Mobil refinery??

This is how they get away with it:
They hire whores like Otto Wong to pretend they are real scientists and industrial hygienists. These whores will publish "studies" in scientific peer reviewed journals. And in court, its presented as proof.
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