Exxon quits ALEC
Oil giant ExxonMobil will not be renewing its membership to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative, corporate-backed lobbying organization known for giving lawmakers template legislation. ALEC also has a long history of pushing laws that would undermine environmental protections and clean energy.
It’s unclear whether climate change was the issue that pushed Exxon to leave ALEC. However, its decision to quit the council reportedly comes after a public spat over climate change policy last December.
https://thinkprogress.org/exxon-quits-a ... c0ce2dad1/From the article,
"The move by Exxon to not renew its membership — which expired in June — comes after years of climate science denial and misinformation by the company. In the past couple of years, however, the company has been publicly shifting its stance on climate change through statements defending the Paris climate agreement and the need for a carbon tax."I've posted about this before. Exxon has a carbon sequestration project in the advanced pilot program stage of development and has invested a lot of money toward that goal.
In the past they did engage in climate science denial. I think it was a stalling tactic because they weren't at the stage to roll out their carbon sequestration program yet and they worried that adverse legislation which could be enacted which would come at an inconvenient time, and go in an inconvenient direction for their plans.
But now the progress on their program has proven viable and they're set to go into the development of a major full scale sequestration project which can make a difference.
Trump got elected and he's been a royal pain in the ass insofar as their goals are concerned. He's the guiding the Lemmings toward the cliff overlooking the sea.
We're long past the stage where reducing our carbon emissions a bit will do. I reduce it as much as I can, but still it is not enough. We were past that stage before the issue came into the public eye 20 years ago.
Shell, BP, and Conoco with Kinder Morgan doing the project management are all major partners with Exxon on this project as well.