Through a loophole from 1995, Chevron has avoided paying $1.49 billion in royalties to the US government for drilling on US deep water leases in the Gulf of Mexico. Â ConocoPhillips,…
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Hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” is a technique that takes chemically treated water and sand to open rock and release natural gas. The rock (shale) layers are more than a mile…
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Oil quickly surged from the Deepwater Horizon Drilling Rig shortly after the unit burst into flames. The oil began gushing out of the deep-sea floor at an astonishing rate, slowly…