ExxonKnews
September 15, 2022
“Nothing to do with our business plans” — that’s how one internal email from an employee at oil giant Shell described the company’s publicized “net-zero” scenario involving an ambitious pathway to reduce emissions.
Another email from an executive at Shell, discussing a poll the company posted to Twitter that asked members of the public what they would be willing to do to reduce emissions, reads, “We are, after all, in a tweet like this implying others need to sacrifice without focusing on ourselves,” and acknowledges that could legitimately be viewed as “gaslighting.”
These are just two in a trove of new internal oil and gas company documents, publicly released last night, that reveal what Big Oil companies actually say about their business operations when they’re behind closed doors.
