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Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (94 page)

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Exxon Valdez
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“The Hydrogen Economy: Opportunities, Costs, Barriers and R&D Needs.” National Research Council and the National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences Press, 2004.

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“Liquefied Natural Gas: Understanding the Basic Facts.” Department of Energy, August 2005.

Malik, Rajiv. “Three Days in N’djamena,”
Foreign Service Journal
, May 2008.

McCright, Aaron M., and Riley E. Dunlap. “Challenging Global Warming as a Social Problem: An Analysis of the Conservative Movement’s Counter-Claims.”
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“More Fight—Less Fuel.” Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Department of Defense Energy Strategy, February 2008.

Morse, Edward. “Low and Behold: Making the Most of Cheap Oil.”
Foreign Affairs
, September–October 2009.

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Oreskes, Naomi. “Behind the Ivory Tower: The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change.”
Science,
December 2004.

Pacala, Stephen, and Robert H. Socolow. “Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies.”
Science,
August 2004.

Patria, Nezar. “Islam and Nationalism in the Free Aceh Movement, 1976–2005.” master’s thesis, International History Department, London School of Economics, London.

Ploch, Lauren. “Africa Command: U.S. Strategic Interests and the Role of the U.S. Military in Africa.” Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, May 16, 2007.

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“Responsible Actions: A Plan for Alberta’s Oil Sands.” Government of Alberta Treasury Board, February 2009.

Schierow, Linda-Jo, and Margaret Mikyung Lee. “Phthalates in Plastics and Possible Human Health Effects.” Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, updated July 29, 2008.

Shurtleff, Len. “A Foreign Service Murder.”
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Skjærseth, Jon Birger. “ExxonMobil: Tiger or Turtle on Social Responsibility?” The Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Lysaker, Norway, July 2003.

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COURT DOCUMENTS

Baker v. Exxon,
No. 04.35182. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, CV. 89-0095-HRH.

Carey Brothers Construction v. Teodoro Nguema Obiang,
Los Angeles County Superior Court, West District, SC-075147.

David Fitzpatrick v. Kenneth P. Cohen,
10-CV-00054-GZS,
United States District Court, District of Maine.

Dragan Deletic v. Sweetwater Management, Inc.,
Los Angeles County Superior Court, West District, SC-104745.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. ExxonMobil Corporation
, 30-6-cv-1732-K, United States District Court, Northern District of Texas.

Exxon Corp. v. Breezevale Ltd.,
05-98-02050-CV, Court of Appeals of Texas, Fifth District, Dallas.

ExxonMobil Corp. v. United States of America,
3-00-cv-00815 M, United States District Court, Northern District of Texas.

ExxonMobil Corp. v. United States of America
, 302-cv-0210 D, United States District Court, Northern District of Texas.

Frontera Resources Azerbaijan Corp. v. State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic,
06 Civ. 1125 (RJH), United States District Court, Southern District of New York.

In Re
Exxon Valdez
Oil Spill
, United States District Court, District of Alaska, A-89-095 (Civil Consolidated).

Jeff Alban et al. v. ExxonMobil Corp.
, 03-C-06-0101932OT, Baltimore County Circuit Court, Maryland.

John Doe I et al. v. ExxonMobil Corporation et al.,
01-cv-01357, United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Larry Bowoto et al. v. Chevron Corp. et al.,
C 99-02506 SI, United States District Court, Northern District of California.

Lily Panayotti v. Sweetwater Management, Inc.
, Los Angeles County Superior Court, West District, SC-099588.

Mobil Cerro Negro, Ltd. v. PDVSA Cerro Negro, S.A.,
07-CV-11590, United States District Court, Southern District of New York.

Mobil Cerro Negro, Ltd. v. Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A.
, Claim No. 2008, Folio 61, High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division, Commercial Court, Great Britain.

Pacific National Construction, Inc. v. Teodoro Nguema Obiang,
Los Angeles County Superior Court, West District, SC-083725.

State of Alaska v. Exxon Corporation,
and
United States of America v. Exxon Corporation
, A91-082 CIV and A91-083 CIV.

Suellen Everett Lundquist v. Sweetwater Management, Inc.,
Los Angeles County Superior Court, West District, SC-097988.

United States of America v. Arthur D. Seale,
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 20 F.3d 1279.

United States of America v. Irene J. Seale,
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 20 F.3d 1279.

United States of America v. Jason Edward Steph
, United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, H-07-307.

Veronique Guillem v. Sweetwater Management, Inc.,
Los Angeles County Superior Court, West District, SC-104747.

Walter B. Meyer et al. v. Teodoro Nguema Obiang,
Los Angeles County Superior Court, West District, SC-073545.

Willie J. Garry v. ExxonMobil Corp. et al.,
03-0791 I/3, United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana.

Index

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Abacha, Sani, 461–62

Abakar, Abdelkarim, 359

Abayak company, 142

ABC, 502

Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia, xv, 207, 209, 543

natural gas initiative of, 201–4, 207, 208

Abdullah, Zaini, 117

Abraham, Spencer, 90, 252, 321

Abu Dhabi, 62

Upper Zakum oil field of, 322–24

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, 322

Abu Jack (Zackaria Ahmad), xv, 93, 96–99, 114, 118

Aceh war, 93–121, 221

atrocities and human rights violations in, 101–5, 107, 110–11, 114, 118, 120, 396–98, 400

Banda-Aceh meeting in, 115–17, 118

Bush (G. W.) administration and, 395–96, 400

di Tiro and, 96–97

ExxonMobil and, 98–102, 106, 107–11, 112–14, 116–17, 118, 143, 398–99

Gelbard’s diplomacy in, 99–102, 114, 115–20

John Doe
lawsuit and, 120, 399–406, 621

Mobil and, 93–98, 102–3, 105, 106, 107, 143

peace accord in, 394–95

rebel extortion campaign in, 93, 97–98

T.N.I.-ExxonMobil relationship in, 107, 108–11

T.N.I.’s political power and, 107

U.S. role in, 112–14

acid rain, 536, 619

Afghanistan, 281, 293

Africa Command, U.S., 471, 473–74, 476

Africa Global, 145–46, 147

“African Oil: A Priority for U.S. National Security and African Development” (symposium), 174

Africa Partnership Station, 472, 516

Airlie Center conference, 343–47

Ait-Laoussine, Nordine, 573

Akpabio, Godswill, 465, 467

Alaska, 2–3, 6, 7, 10, 11–12, 32, 68, 70, 123, 124

BP pipeline disaster in, 612

natural gas deposits in, 201, 580

offshore drilling in, 605

Albers, Mark, 493

Alger Electric, 374, 376

Algeria, 52, 172, 197, 222, 293

Alien Tort Claims Act, 119, 401–2, 403

Allbritton, Joseph, 152

Allexson, Kevin, 620

Al Qaeda, 149, 172, 173, 174, 205, 207, 297, 400, 470

alternate energy, 436–50, 505, 535, 634
n

battery technology and, 448–49

Bush (G. W.) administration and, 436–37

energy independence and, 439–41

alternate energy (
cont.
)

ethanol as, 445–48

ExxonMobil and, 437–38, 549

hybrid cars and, 449–50

hydrogen as, 437, 444–45

resource curse cycle and, 440

technological revolution and, 441–42, 444

Tillerson and, 442–43, 447, 450

2030 Outlook Review and, 442–43

U.S. oil dependency and, 435–37

Alvarez, Bernardo, 424

Alyeska Emergency Center, 632
n

Alyeska Pipeline Service, 10–11

Amerada Hess, 142, 146, 147, 149, 283, 291, 294, 297, 299

see also
Hess Corporation

American Chemical Council, 479, 491

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 68, 184, 270, 302, 536

Global Climate Science Team of, 85–86, 87

oil scale of, 413

American International Group, Inc., 528

American Petroleum Institute (A.P.I.), 60, 72, 73, 84, 85–86, 413, 488, 505, 537, 547

Amnesty International, 504

Amoco, 60, 64, 265, 578, 611

Amundson, Neal, 79

Anderson, Benedict, 524

Angelos, Peter G., 384, 620–21

Angola, 18, 139, 149, 150, 222, 282, 284, 286, 293, 360, 453, 471, 516, 521, 608

Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy, 86–87

Arab Spring, 162

ARCO Juneau,
3

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 70

Argentina, 26

Armed Forces for a Federal Republic (F.A.R.F.), 167

Armey, Richard, 538

Arms and the African
(Foltz), 171

Association for the Conservation of Energy, 309

Atkiss, Tony, 213

Atlantic Richfield, 3, 36, 487, 611

Atlas Shrugged
(Rand), 334

Attah, Victor, xiv, 452, 458–60, 465, 466

Attiyah, Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-, 198

Auke Bay Laboratories, 123–25, 128–29

Australia, 51, 94, 224, 589, 619

Austria, 17

Auty, Richard M., 166

Avatar
(film), 528

Azerbaijan, 18, 168, 222, 232, 565

Aznar, José María, 285, 290–91, 293

Baddin, Neal, 527–28

Baharuddin (torture victim), 397–98

Bahrain, 195

Bailey, David P., 547

Baldwin, Maurice W., Jr., 387–88, 393

Baltimore Sun,
384

Bandar Bin Sultan, Prince of Saudi Arabia, 202

Bank of New York, 427, 429–30, 431

Barbour, Haley, 91

Barbour Griffith & Rogers, 291–92

Barclays Capital, 588, 589, 591, 597

Barnett Shale, 577–78, 584

Baron, Valerie, 490

Barron’s,
577

Barrymore, Drew, 208

Barton, Joe, xiv, 487–94, 496

Barzani, Masoud, 570

Bashir, Omar Al-, 242, 356–57, 358

Batts, Deborah, 433–34

BearingPoint, Inc., 565

Beautiful Vision, Inc., 526

Bechtel Corporation, 96, 97

Beggar of Hope, The
(
Le Mendiant de l’Espoir
) (Haggar), 171

Bellachey, Brenda, 130

Benchmark Capital, 591

Bennett, Jack, 62

Bennett, John, 139, 146

Benson, Sally, 444

benzene, 381, 386

Berezovsky, Boris, 271

Berlin Wall, 17, 19

Bingaman, Jeff, 321

Bingel, Kelly, 551

Bin Laden, Osama, 172, 400

Bin Nayef, Mohammed, 207

Black, Hugo, 401

Black, Ronnie, 43

Blair, Tony, 106, 220, 224, 240, 285, 290, 523, 611

Blankfein, Lloyd, 554

Bodkin, Jim, 130

Bodman, Samuel, 143, 248, 323, 545, 560, 563

Boeing Corporation, 153

Booth, John Wilkes, 542

Borico, Miguel, 292

Bowdoin College, 132

Bowen, Russell, xiii, 375–76, 378

Boxer, Barbara, 320, 486

Boyce, Ralph “Skip,” 113, 117

Boy Scouts of America, 333, 335, 541

Brazil, 18, 446, 448

Breakingviews,
591

Breast Cancer Fund, 483, 485–86, 491

Bremer, Paul, 231, 232, 236

Bridgeland, John, 90

Brill, Ken, 91–92

Bristol-Myers, 80, 91

British Petroleum (BP), 2–3, 10, 16–17, 31, 36–37, 40, 51, 52, 57, 62, 64, 70, 85, 107, 161, 198, 218, 255, 259, 261, 264, 274, 320, 322, 326, 340, 342, 414, 415, 418, 421, 423, 425, 457, 546, 549, 550, 568, 575, 578, 595, 608, 609, 613, 615, 616