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QuoteThis just in....computer models now say global warming could make Edmonton as warm as Florida or trigger the next ice age.

QuoteBP believes that climate change is an important long-term issue that justifies global action



According to the IPCC, warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and is in large part due to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.



More aggressive energy policies and technologies could lead to slower growth in CO2 emissions than expected but this would still not be enough to limit warming to no more than 2°C, the threshold recognized by governments as limiting the worst impacts of climate change.



The scale of this challenge is such that governments must act by setting a clear, stable and effective carbon policy framework. A clear framework is necessary if energy companies are to limit GHGs while providing energy competitively.



We agree that burning all known reserves would probably cause global temperatures to rise by more than 2°C – and that addressing this issue will require the efforts of governments, industry and individuals.



//http://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/sustainability/the-energy-future/climate-change.html

QuoteClimate Change



As Canada's largest energy company, Suncor is committed to operational improvements to reduce the emissions intensity and environmental impact of its operations around the world.



With growth plans spanning the next decade, our absolute emissions will increase. But there is opportunity to improve our performance, while investing in solutions and working with all stakeholders to effect longer term change. The single biggest near-term opportunity to reduce our green house gas emissions is through improved reliability and energy efficiency across our operations.



Suncor continues to be guided by the seven-point climate change action plan we first adopted in 1997.



We've been encouraged by successes on all of these fronts. But we know we must continue to find new and better ways to reduce the carbon intensity of our business, for the benefit of all involved.



//http://www.suncor.com/en/responsible/1394.aspx

Quote from: "Romero"There couldn't be any benefit for them lying about it. It's not like they would be making extra money from what you would call a hoax and conspiracy.



It's official policy. When it comes down to it, they officially believe the same thing I and other global warming realists believe in.



Let's hypothetically say you were chosen to do some pr on the subject for your company. Funny enough, if you said the world was cooling and it's all a hoax you'd be fired.

Quote from: "Shen Li"No company and especially an energy one will say they do not support efforts to reduce global warming. You have to nowadays, certainly my boss says that too when speaking with the press.

Quote from: "Romero"

Quote from: "Shen Li"No company and especially an energy one will say they do not support efforts to reduce global warming. You have to nowadays, certainly my boss says that too when speaking with the press.

What's that? No company especially energy companies will say global warming isn't real and man-made? Your own boss too?



How interesting.

Quote from: "Shen Li"Hell, I have to put my critical thinking skills aside and play along when speaking to the public.

Quote from: "Obvious Li"nowadays for a politician or company exec to say man made global warming is a scam is equivalent to using the "N" word in a Detroit restaurant....in other words if you want to keep your political career or company job...you play along for the sake of playing along.....privately they laugh about the idiot brigade

Quote from: "Obvious Li"nowadays for a politician or company exec to say man made global warming is a scam is equivalent to using the "N" word in a Detroit restaurant....in other words if you want to keep your political career or company job...you play along for the sake of playing along.....privately they laugh about the idiot brigade

Quote"ExxonMobil takes the risk of climate change seriously, and continues to take meaningful steps to help address the risk and to ensure our facilities, operations and investments are managed with this risk in mind," the company said in the report.



//http://www.ibtimes.com/exxon-mobil-acknowledges-climate-change-risk-business-first-time-1565836

QuoteCanada's Plan To Tackle Climate Change – Follow The U.S.



Barack Obama didn't just make announcements for his own country at a United Nations climate summit Tuesday — he got to make Canada's, too.



Canada made two main commitments at the summit, where countries were urged to bring bold policies to fight climate change. And both borrow heavily from industrial regulations the U.S. president has already set in motion.



One was to match American vehicle-emissions standards. The other, to curb the use of HFC coolants, several days after the White House announced plans for executive orders, and convened a meeting of business leaders who've committed to slashing hydrofluorocarbons by 80 per cent by 2050.



Both of those things came up in passing in the president's speech to the conference, among the list of measures he'd already announced. In that speech, he also announced plans to incorporate climate-change considerations into U.S. foreign-development projects, and referred to his far more controversial executive order to regulate the highest-polluting sector in the U.S., old power plants.



He urged everyone else to get moving on a post-2015 treaty, in remarks that appeared to be aimed primarily at the Chinese.



"Nobody gets a pass,'' Obama said.



Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived in New York later in the day for three days of events at the UN and with business leaders.



"So nice of him to show up,'' one UN staffer cracked within the earshot of Canadian media, upon hearing that the prime minister was headed to town later in the day.



//http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/09/23/canada-climate-change_n_5871078.html

Quote from: "Romero"

Quote"ExxonMobil takes the risk of climate change seriously, and continues to take meaningful steps to help address the risk and to ensure our facilities, operations and investments are managed with this risk in mind," the company said in the report.



//http://www.ibtimes.com/exxon-mobil-acknowledges-climate-change-risk-business-first-time-1565836

QuoteExxonMobil Bulks up on Canada's Oil Sands



Big oil is getting bigger as ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), the biggest of big oil is picking up additional acres in Canada's oil sands region from ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP). The $720 million (USD) deal adds 226,000 largely undeveloped acres of land near the southern edge of the Athabasca oil sands. It works out to a pretty solid deal for both companies, so let's drill down a little deeper to see why this deal matters.



What's Exxon Getting?



For Exxon this deal is all about access to future oil production. The company and its Canadian partner Imperial Oil (TSX: IMO), which is 70% owned by Exxon, already are heavily invested in the oil sands thanks to the $11 billion Kearl oil sands project. These undeveloped acres, which Imperial is acquiring along with Exxon, gives the partners access to future oil resources which can be used to grow oil production, something Exxon in particular has struggled to do in recent years. While these are high quality acres, this deal is all about the future as Exxon and Imperial will be required to spend heavily to turn this acquisition into actual oil production.

http://www.fool.ca/2013/08/09/exxonmobil-bulks-up-on-canadas-oil-sands/

QuoteReuters) - Canada's largest oil and gas producer, Suncor Energy Inc, is shipping its first ever tanker of Western Canadian heavy crude from Canada's East Coast to Europe, a company spokeswoman said on Tuesday.



Suncor spokeswoman Sneh Seetal confirmed Reuters shipping data that shows the aframax tanker Minerva Gloria was set to pick up a cargo of crude oil from the port of Sorel-Tracy on the St. Lawrence River in Quebec.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/23/crude-suncor-exports-idUSL2N0RN25V20140923

QuoteSuncor recognized early on that climate change would be an important issue for our company and our stakeholders. That's why we introduced a seven-point action plan in 1997.