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• Gas study shows highest reserve inventories since 1986

  - 2005-09-01

  Last year, natural gas reserves increased among the nation's 30 largest reserves holders, reflecting the likelihood that sustained higher wholesale gas prices and improved technology have encouraged producers to book more of the gas in the ground as recoverable, according to the American Gas Association AGA. According to AGA's...

  Tags: American Gas Association, Oil, U.S., Unocal Corp.

• China condemns US political intransigence after failed CNOOC bid

  - 2005-08-03

  BEIJING AFP — Chinese state media has condemned US political intransigence over oil group CNOOC's bid for Unocal, saying its opposition calls into question the free trade dogma Washington often trumpets to the world. "The high-profile takeover battle demonstrated to the world that the United States is not a...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Beijing, editorial, FINANCE, U.S., Unocal Corp.

• MOVING THE NEEDLE?

  - 2005-08-01

  The line that separates market factors from political ones has gotten blurred indeed. By the time you read this, the bidding war over Unocal's Asian assets may have concluded, but the contest raises important issues, whatever the outcome.Was it a sign of the maturation and sophistication of a Chinese E&P...

  Tags: barrel, China, Government, International Energy Agency, SOFTWARE, U.S., Unocal Corp.

• Unocal bid stirs scare tactics

  - 2005-07-11

  Correction ran 7/12/2005: China's oil consumption is 7 million barrels a day. U.S. consumption is 21 million barrels a day, projected to be 28 million barrels in 20 years. An editorial Monday incorrectly put the figures in billions. Today's debate: Energy and the economy Our view: Unrealistic panic distracts...

  Tags: barrel, China, FINANCE, Investment, U.S., U.S. Congress, Unocal Corp.

• Between Self-Regulation and the Alien Tort Claims Act: On the Contested Concept of Corporate Social Responsibility

  - 2004-12-01

  Using Alien Tort Claims Act suits against multinational corporations as an immediate context for discussion, this article explores the emerging field of corporate social responsibility. The article argues for an understanding of concrete legal struggles as part of broader competing strategies for regulating corporate obligations to a multitude of stakeholders....

  Tags: American Bar Association, Cir, Coca-Cola Co., CSR, Exxon Mobil Corp., Government, Leadership, Quality, self-regulation, Shell, standards, U.S., Unocal Corp.

• Corporate bullies: the 10 worst corporations of 1998.

  - 1998-12-01

  A listing of the top 10 corporations in terms of their contribution to unchecked commercialism. corporate criminality, social injustice, environmental pollution, public health issues and the wprldwide decline of democracy is presented. The 10 worst firms of 1998 include Chevron, Coca-Cola, General Motors, Loral Corp, Mobil Oil, Monsanto, Royal Caribbean...

  Tags: beverage, California, Chevron Corp., Coca-Cola Co., Delta, FDA, food, General Motors Corp., Gingrich, Government, Loral Space & Communications Ltd., Manufacturing, Monsanto, Nazi, U.S., Unocal Corp., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Warner-Lambert

• A planet unfree: what does human rights have to do with environmental protection? Everything - big business and government forces oppress people if they protest pollution and the exploitation of natural resources - The Next Generation - Cover Story

  - 1997-11-01

  One November day in 1996, a line of logging trucks rumbled into an old olive-growing region of Turkey, near the ancient Pillars of Pergamum. The government- paid loggers had come to clear land for a new gold-mining project sponsored by the French-based conglomerate Eurogold. But they were able to fell...

  Tags: activist, environment, Government, leader, Leadership, Nigeria, pollution, Sierra Club, SOFTWARE, Turkey, U.S., Unocal Corp.