Posts Tagged ‘Oil industry’

World-leading oil executives meeting at Vatican

Thursday, June 7th, 2018

World-leading oil company executives will be attending a conference at the Vatican on Friday and Saturday this week. The executives are from companies such as Exxon Mobil, Eni, BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Pemex. The executives have been invited to the “Energy Transition and Care for Our Common Home” conference because the oil and gas Read more

Pope Francis at odds with US Catholic oil investments

Tuesday, August 18th, 2015

Despite Pope Francis’s call for urgent action on climate change, many US Catholic dioceses and organisations retain major investments in energy companies. A Reuters’ investigation has shown some of the largest American Catholic organisations have millions of dollars invested in the energy sector. Investments range from hydraulic fracturing firms to oil sands producers. Dioceses with Read more