[Vision2020] 6-9-21 by Sharon Kelly "Oil Drilling in the ‘Land of Water’: ExxonMobil Hunts for More Fossil Fuels in Guyana Amid Sea Level Rise Fears

[Ted Moffett]

Oil Drilling in the ‘Land of Water’: ExxonMobil Hunts for More Fossil Fuels
in Guyana Amid Sea Level Rise Fears - DeSmog
<https://www.desmog.com/2021/06/09/oil-drilling-exxonmobil-guyana-climate/?utm_source=DeSmog%20Weekly%20Newsletter>

Shareholders voting for ExxonMobil to follow "the goals of the Paris
Agreement?"  Perhaps this suggests the goals of the Paris agreement are not
a major threat to the financial future of ExxonMobil?

>From article at link above:

Meanwhile, the company’s own investors have grown so alarmed over Exxon’s
blinders-on approach to climate change
<https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/ending-the-climate-crisis/exxon-and-the-oil-industry-knew-about-climate-change/exxons-climate-denial-history-a-timeline/>
 and the energy transition
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/26/business/exxon-mobil-climate-change.html>
that,
in a May shareholder meeting, they voted to eject three of the
corporation’s current directors and replace them with directors who’ve
publicly criticized
<https://reenergizexom.com/materials/letter-to-the-board-of-directors-february-22/>
Exxon’s
current leadership for pushing fossil fuel strategies that run “directly
counter to the goals of the Paris Agreement.” The move was spearheaded by a
small hedge fund called Engine No. 1.

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