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Re:Big Oil Is Suing Countries to Block Climate Action by barney54 on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @09:28PM (#31676604)
Despite the title, I didn’t see any examples of Big Oil suing countries to block climate action in the article. Did I miss it? Early in the article it talks about Vermillion, but they aren’t Big Oil.
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Re:Big Oil Is Suing Countries to Block Climate Action by toma_caliente on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @09:32PM (#31676640)
Vermillion is absolutely "Big Oil." They are an oil and gas company that make several billion a year. If you don't consider that "big" I don't know what is.
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Re:Big Oil Is Suing Countries to Block Climate Action by barney54 on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @10:00PM (#31676806)
Big Oil is ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Aramco, Total, Chevron—companies of that magnitude.

Regardless, Vermillion is the only oil company that sued anyone and did it a few years ago. Where’s the evidence of Big Oil currently suing?

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Re:Big Oil Is Suing Countries to Block Climate Action by gomijacogeo on Thursday June 09, 2022 @02:39AM (#31678196)
My impression is this is a technique of the 2nd tier energy companies (e.g. https://www.isds.bilaterals.org/vattenfall-vs-germany-i-coal...).

Companies like BP, Total, etc operate more like nation-states and have other tools available.

I'd still call them "Big Energy" however.

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Re:Big Oil Is Suing Countries to Block Climate Action by em-bee on Thursday June 09, 2022 @04:52AM (#31679015)
which makes sense. second tier companies are less likely to survive, so they have to fight harder
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Re:Big Oil Is Suing Countries to Block Climate Action by gowld on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @10:10PM (#31676874)
Vermillion: $5B

Exxon: $440B

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Re:Big Oil Is Suing Countries to Block Climate Action by kennywinker on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @10:34PM (#31677031)
In the PDF of the report linked (https://www.iisd.org/system/files/2022-01/investor%E2%80%93s...) there's a table of cases they're citing as examples. Two of them are "Chevron and TexPet v. Ecuador" (part I and II). Chevron is undoubtedly a Big Oil company.
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