Mobil lied about climate change
News release 23 November 2015

Concerned citizens have called for an investigation into oil giant Mobil, after evidence has emerged the company has lied to the world about climate change.

A Mobil service station in Petone will be picketed on Tuesday 24 November.

Mobil NZ is a direct subsidiary of Exxon Mobil, the world’s largest company. Exxon Mobil is under criminal investigation in the US, and pickets of Mobil stations have begun.

Spokesperson Michelle Ducat said, “Exxon Mobil lied about climate change.”

“Exxon Mobil's own scientists knew about climate change, yet they spent millions to delay action on climate change.”

“Picketing a Mobil service station is a way of expressing our abhorrence about what Mobil has done. We are calling for Mobil NZ to be investigated by the Serious Fraud Office and the Commerce Commission to see what lies the company may have told the public in New Zealand. We also want the New Zealand Superannuation Fund and ACC to immediately divest from Exxon Mobil.”

“Mobil needs to stop profiting from destroying our climate and threatening lives, and immediately begin a just transition away from fossil fuels,” said Ms Ducat. “Along with other fossil fuel companies, they need to leave the oil in the ground.”

Exxon Mobil's history of funding think tanks and advertising campaigns to cast doubt on climate science is well documented. This has delayed action on climate change for over 15 years. “These new revelations that Exxon Mobil knew about the climate science before 1990 yet continued to encourage doubt confirms them to be climate criminals” said Ms Ducat.
The picket is timed to coincide with the visit to Wellington of Naomi Oreskes, Professor of Science History at Harvard University and author of "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming." Professor Oreskes said that the challenge of climate change "is now much greater than it needed to be, in no small part because of the choices that Exxon Mobil made." http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/opinion/exxons-climate-concealment.html?_r=0

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