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What’s Behind BP’s Decision To Abandon Drilling In The Great Australian Bight?

Taken at face value, one could applaud BP’s decision to finally pull the plug on the project rather than stubbornly struggle on.

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The Great Australian Bight is a large open bay off the southern coastline of mainland Australia.

While BP’s decision to cancel its plans to drill in the pristine Great Australian Bight ends a public relations nightmare for the company, questions remain about BP’s and its peers’ growth-led and frontier-dependent business model. BP’s announcement binning its Bight ambitions suggests that the project is no longer competitive or aligned with

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New Documents Reveal Exxon’s Lobbying Efforts To Stop The Electric Car

The news comes after a Koch Industries-backed campaign to rebrand fossil fuels – called Fueling U.S.Forward – was recently launched to undermine clean energy innovations including electric vehicles

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Drivers fill up at an Exxon gas station, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2005, in Richardson, Texas.(AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Exxon is lobbying the UK government to stop them pushing for electric vehicles as a way of tackling climate change or air pollution, according to documents obtained under Freedom of Information rules (FOI) by DeSmog UK. The documents reveal the firm lobbied UK transport department officials in three separate presentations given after the UK

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