This entry contains two documents generated in early 1991 for the Information Council on the Environment or ICE. The first document is a “Test Market Proposal” for ICE that outlines a a half a million dollar campaign of “awareness” targeted in test media markets. ICE is a project sponsored by the utility trade group Edison […]
In this section of the Western Fuel Association’s (WFA) 1991 annual report, CEO Fred Palmer and Board of Directors President Stan Bazant discussed how the coal industry should address climate change. The two leaders warned of the “huge potential impact of a lopsided global warming debate on coal-based utilities” and defended their efforts to challenge […]
This 1990 collection of papers, titled “The environmental challenge and the oil industry’s response,” outlines Royal Dutch/Shell Group’s (“Shell”) issues surrounding the environment, energy efficiency, inter-fuel substitution, and “Shell policy.” This document, a part of a larger collection discovered by Jelmer Mommers of De Correspondent in a trove of internal Shell documents, reckons with climate […]
This early 1990s document from Imperial Oil Ltd, the Canadian subsidiary of Exxon, is an article describing the stance of Imperial’s senior vice-president Doug Baldwin on potential emissions regulations in Canada. This document is part of the ClimateFiles Imperial Oil document set, gleaned by DeSmog researchers from the Glenbow Imperial Oil Archive Collection. Doug Baldwin […]
This is a 1990 internal memorandum from the Public Affairs department of the Exxon Corporation, containing a draft of the shareholder’s Environmental Report. This document is part of the ClimateFiles Imperial Oil document set, gleaned by DeSmog researchers from the Glenbow Imperial Oil Archive Collection. The report mentions recent environmental catastrophes, particularly “the Bhopal catastrophe […]
This 1990 document from Imperial Oil Ltd, the Canadian subsidiary of Exxon, is a presentation on “Running a Green Business: A Balance of Environmental and Economic Priorities” given by Douglas Baldwin, President and CEO of Esso Resources Canada Limited. The presentation was given to the Canadian Gas Association Marketing Conference in Calgary, Alberta on October […]
This 1990 document from Imperial Oil Ltd, the Canadian subsidiary of Exxon, is a “Response to Environment Canada’s ‘Framework for Discussion on the Environment.” This document is part of the ClimateFiles Imperial Oil document set, gleaned by DeSmog researchers from the Glenbow Imperial Oil Archive Collection. This document includes a letter from R.B Peterson, of […]
This June 1990 document from Imperial Oil Limited (IOL), the Canadian subsidiary of Exxon, is a response to the Canadian government’s “Framework for Discussion on the Environment – The Green Plan: A National Challenge” which had been released earlier that year. This document is part of the ClimateFiles Imperial Oil document set, gleaned by DeSmog […]
1990 Royal Dutch/Shell Group (“Shell”) “Statement of General Business Principles” as they apply to “corporate decision-making [and] the individual behaviour expected of employees.” This document is a part of a larger collection discovered by Jelmer Mommers of De Correspondent in a trove of internal Shell documents. 1990 Shell “Statement of General Business Principles” (PDF) Interested […]
This 1990 document from Imperial Oil Ltd, the Canadian subsidiary of Exxon, is a collection of issue essay sleeves displaying the titles of many papers written by Imperial about environmental challenges. This document is part of the ClimateFiles Imperial Oil document set, gleaned by DeSmog researchers from the Glenbow Imperial Oil Archive Collection. The sleeves […]