A growing awareness
of these oil billionaires» destructive agenda has led to increased scrutiny and resistance from people and organizations all over the United States.
The Greenpeace Airship A.E. Bates flies over the location
of oil billionaires David and Charles Koch's latest secret political strategy meeting, with a banner reading «Koch Brothers: Dirty Money.»
As David Axelrod told Jane Mayer of The New Yorker in her extraordinary investigative article exposing the Koch brothers, «What they don't say is that, in part, this is a grassroots citizens» movement brought to you by a bunch
of oil billionaires.»
The Black List screenplay, written by David Scarpa, centers on the 1973 kidnapping in Italy of J. Paul Getty III — the rebellious teenage grandson
of oil billionaire J. Paul Getty, who was reluctant to pay the $ 17 million ransom demanded by the kidnappers.
Sony Pictures Entertainment has released a new trailer for Ridley Scott's All the Money in the World with Christopher Plummer having replaced Kevin Spacey in the role
of oil billionaire J. Paul Getty who famously refused to cough up the money to pay the people who kidnapped his teenage grandson.
Not exact matches
The VC firm is owned, in turn by Renova Group, owned by Russian
billionaire, Victor Vekselberg, who is one
of Russia's richest men and dominates the country's
oil and metals industry.
A Russian
oil billionaire has been ordered by the U.K.'s High Court to transfer a luxury superyacht worth nearly $ 500,000 to his ex-wife in one
of Britain's biggest divorce battles, the Financial Times reports.
HOUSTON, April 16 -
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn on Monday nominated a five - person slate
of his employees and business associates to replace the SandRidge Energy Inc board
of directors, escalating his fight for control
of the U.S. shale
oil producer.
HOUSTON, April 16 (Reuters)-
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn on Monday nominated a five - person slate
of his employees and business associates to replace the SandRidge Energy Inc board
of directors, escalating his fight for control
of the U.S. shale
oil producer.
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Isabel Dos Santos, the woman listed by Forbes as Africa's first female
billionaire, has been unceremoniously fired from her post as head
of Angola's national
oil company Sonangol, according to newswire reports.
«The value
of the Canadian dollar and the price
of oil, one
of the nation's top exports, have both tumbled to near record lows,» the
billionaire and former three - term mayor
of New York wrote ahead
of Trudeau's arrival for town - hall event on live television.
The
billionaire philanthropist proceeded to compare Facebook and Google to mining and
oil companies, accusing them
of earning their profits «by exploiting their environment.»
In recent years, Browne has been chairperson
of L1 Energy, a company operating out
of Luxembourg, founded by Russian Jewish
billionaire Mikhail Fridman, that invests in
oil and natural gas ventures.
The beachhead groups were part
of a larger constellation
of advisers, including Oklahoma
oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary),
billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his
oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge
of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the
oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director
of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.
U.S. shale
oil billionaire Harold Hamm, who once called the Organization
of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, a «toothless tiger,» https://www.reuters.com/article/us-contl-resources-ceo-hedging-idUSKBN0IQ18R20141107 is now crediting the 14 - nation group for its steps to boost crude prices.
Meunier's organisation was founded by some
of the most vehement opposition figures, including Egypt's richest man and well - known Coptic Christian
billionaire Naguib Sawiris, Tarek Heggy, an
oil industry executive, Salah Diab, Halliburton's partner in Egypt, and Usama Ghazali Harb, a politician with roots in the Mubarak regime and a frequent US embassy contact.
HOUSTON, May 3 (Reuters)- U.S. shale
oil billionaire Harold Hamm, who once called the Organization
of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, a «toothless tiger,» here is now crediting the 14 - nation group for its steps to boost crude prices.
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The junk low - grade heavy
oil or what the Koch brothers accurately call «garbage» (the right - wing
billionaires remain the largest buyers
of raw bitumen at their Pine Bend facility in Minnesota) is such a complicated and low - grade resource that it requires a complex methodology to grade its market value.
The Canadian
oil producer controlled by Hong Kong
billionaire Li Ka - Shing would support a tax if it's applied broadly and at least includes the rest
of North America, Ghosh said Friday on a conference call to discuss third - quarter earnings results.
For Caro, Johnson represents a shift that began under Franklin Roosevelt, toward a new populism in American politics, driven by a combination
of emerging Texas
oil and natural gas tycoons,
billionaire government contractors, and the high - tech political campaigns they were able to fund.
Lakes
Oil, part - owned by
billionaire Gina Rinehart, has been a vigorous opponent
of a ban on unconventional gas exploration in Victoria, and Mr Tonkin said it was similarly bad policy in South Australia.
The club is firmly in the hands
of our enemies and though I realised immediately that as a
billionaire Kroenke was obviously a self centred and rapacious person — you don't become a
billionaire by being caring and empathetic — and I also quickly saw through Gazidis's lies and snake
oil sales methods — the hurt done by a man who clearly once loved our club and still professes to, by putting himself and his own power plus his own gross financial pay before the good
of the club and fans, (the only honourable ones in this charade) is by far the unkindest cut and wound
of all.
To fulfill his pledges to the IOC, Putin has, as Nowak says, enlisted Russia's oligarchs, the opportunists who became
billionaires during the collapse
of the Soviet Union by taking over vast amounts
of oil, gas and metals, reportedly gaining control
of some 40 %
of the country's GDP.
Now these people aren't ordinary people, they are the higher echelon
of campaign staff — the kind
of people who can put together a successful ground operation, but for one reason or another these folks were left hanging in a lurch by the
billionaire oil baron.
The Adirondack Council is calling on
billionaire investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett to remove his
oil tanker railroad cars from the fragile, protected public forests
of New York's Adirondack Park.
While the world's
billionaires have been suffering losses,
oil prices rose to $ 48 a barrel yesterday as investors took advantage
of a two - day slide in crude triggered by Brexit vote.
«Short
of a major problem, Andrew will win by maybe 60 percent,» said
billionaire businessman and real estate mogul John Catsimatidis, the chairman
of oil, gas and real estate firm Red Apple Group and a big Cuomo supporter.
According to the report on Wednesday, Dangote lost $ 4.9 bn or one - third
of his wealth as the combined effect
of falling
oil prices and the June devaluation
of the naira pushed him to No. 112 on the
billionaires» list with $ 10.4 bn.
The 21 - year - old daughter
of President Muhammadu Buhari is getting married to Ahmed, the son
of Nigeria
billionaire and an
oil tycoon, Mohammed Indimi.
REAL ESTATE •
Oil and auto
billionaire Boris Berezovsky, who fled his native Russia in 2001 after he was found guilty
of embezzlement, sold his 30th - floor apartment in the Trump International building on Central Park West for $ 7.55 million.
The New Hampshire branch
of Americans for Prosperity, a group co-founded by
oil billionaire David Koch, has weighed in with radio ads slamming Hassan for supporting the «RGGI tax.»
The US
oil billionaire Robert Hefner III, known as the «father
of deep natural gas», had offered me a lift to discuss a book he was planning.
In fact, the $ 1 million from the
oil billionaires is only one tentacle
of the oily Kochtopus.
As we detailed in our report «Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine,»
oil billionaires David and Charles Koch have become kingpins
of climate denial, funneling tens
of millions
of dollars to front groups and think tanks that oppose climate and clean energy policies.
Read all about climate denial scientist Willie Soon's dirty money from petrochemical
billionaire Charles Koch, coal utility Southern Company,
oil giant ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel companies to deny the science
of climate change!
Last year, I wrote a book that was published in Australia called Laid Bare: One Man's Story
of Sex, Love and Other Disorders... She'd have put her picture on a dating site, married a Texas
oil billionaire and blocked me on Facebook.»
Oscar winner Christopher Plummer will replace Spacey in the role
of famed
billionaire oil tycoon J. Paul Getty.
Following director Ridley Scott's decision to recast and reshoot all
of Spacey's scenes in the upcoming J. Paul Getty biopic following multiple allegations
of sexual harassment against Spacey, Plummer stepped in to take on the role
of the infamous
billionaire oil tycoon.
All the reshoots in the world enabled Christopher Plummer to have an infectiously high old time replacing disgraced Kevin Spacey as disgraceful
billionaire J. Paul Getty in this film about the 1970s kidnapping
of the
oil mogul's grandson.
Written by David Scarpa and based on John Pearson's book «Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes
of the Heirs
of J Paul Getty,» 80 - year - old director Ridley Scott's («Alien: Covenant») All the Money in the World tackles such an explosive story, the kidnapping
of John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer, «The Dinner»), grandson
of oil tycoon John Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer, «The Man Who Invented Christmas»), and a
billionaire said to be the richest man in the world.
Against her better judgment she accepts an assignment from a Texas
oil billionaire, to find news
of his daughter who has gone missing in Africa.
Against her better judgment she accepts an assignment from a Texas
oil billionaire, to find news
of his daughter who has gone missing in...
«Gallerinas» finds Jim chasing leads and investigating the death
of a
billionaire oil tycoon and art collector on the eve
of Art Basel Miami Beach.
Auctioneers mentioned that the increase in
oil prices was creating more
billionaires in Moscow who were able afford such works
of art.
The Scaife Foundations consist
of a trio
of foundations that had been directed by the late
billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, whose wealth was inherited from the Mellon industrial,
oil, aluminum and banking fortune.
In doing so, the paper dismissed mounting evidence linking underground injection
of wastewater to earthquakes at large, continuing its attempt to cast doubt on science and shut down policy debates that could affect the paper's owner,
billionaire oil and gas tycoon Philip Anschutz.
Just over a year ago,
oil billionaire David Koch used to joke that the company he owns with his brother Charles, Koch Industries, was «the biggest company you've never heard
of.»
One
of the most prominent is Robert Bryce, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a New York City - based, pro-market, anti-government think tank backed by ExxonMobil and Charles Koch, the
billionaire co-owner
of the coal,
oil and gas conglomerate Koch Industries.