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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Editor's note: The City of Richmond may be the first to stand up to the Chevron Corp. this month if it turns down the company's effort to refine dirty crude oil. If not, the city will be far more polluted than it already is, creating serious health problems, for all. NAM contributor Bill Gallegos is executive director of Communities for a Better Environment.
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
One Jew and one Arab were arrested on Shabbos as Arabs in the Chevron Hills area approached Yishuv Asha’el and according to the community’s security officer, set fields ablaze, resulting in significant loss and damage. The security officer detained a number of Arab suspects found near the community’s perimeter. According to the Arabs, one of the [...]
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
-- Ever since Burma's leaders engaged in a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests last fall, Congress has pushed to tighten sanctions against the country's ruling generals. And that's put Chevron...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Ever since Myanmar's leaders engaged in a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests last fall, Congress has pushed to tighten sanctions against the country's ruling generals. And that's put Chevron Corp., the largest U.S. investor in that country, in the...
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Free Internet Press (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Just three years ago, with oil trading at a seemingly frothy $66 a barrel, David J. O'Reilly made what many experts considered a risky bet. Outmaneuvering Chinese bidders and ignoring critics who said he overpaid, O�Reilly, the chief executive of Chevron,forked over $18 billion to buy Unocal, a giant whose riches date back to oil fields made famous in the film �There Will Be Blood.� For Chevron,...
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Public Opinion (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last year Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve said, "Everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil." That observation has been reinforced by the Iraqi government awarding a series of key oil contracts to British and US companies including Shell, BP, Exxon Mobil, Chevron and Total....
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
SECURITY/DEFENSE: • The security officer in Asha’el in the Chevron Hills on Shabbos apprehended seven Arabs who torched their fields, resulting in extensive damage. Firefighters extinguished the blaze. One Jew was arrested after the Arab stated he assaulted them. One Arab was taken into custody as well. • Due to escalating violence in Na’alin against construction of the perimeter [...]
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Tim Worstall (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
This really does take the biscuit. Naomi Klein’s not normally all that clued up, agreed, but she rarely actually undermines her own argument in the same piece. Firstly, there’s this: It started with no-bid service contracts announced for Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell, BP and Total (they have yet to be signed but are still on course). Paying [...]
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Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
"We" are already heisting Iraq's oil, or at least are on the brink of doing so. It started with no-bid service contracts announced for Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell, BP and Total... Iraq is being forced to sell 75% of its national patrimony to pay the bills for its own illegal invasion and occupation.
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Exxon Mobil, Chevron and other major international oil companies are seeking technology breakthroughs to make gasoline and diesel from renewable sources as they shun fuel from food crops.
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SeekingAlpha Energy Stocks (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Vikram Saxena submits: Crude Oil's relentless march towards the near term spike target of $150 is now threatening to send the Global Economy into a recession. Big Oil companies (Exxon-Mobil (XOM), Chevron (CVX), Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A), BP (BP) and ConocoPhillips (COP)) are in the thick of the controversy as the rising price of oil has seen their profits sky-rocket. Congress smells an opportunity...
