This is a news compilation setting the record straight on the day’s top stories about the oil and gas industry.
News Headline:
Tell KKR: Don’t invest in the Coastal GasLink pipeline and respect Indigenous rights now!
The Facts:
“Keep It In The Ground” activists continue to try and push their radical anti-energy agenda while the world is relying on it to combat COVID-19.
- Factories and businesses across the world are now being used to make ventilators and other essential medical devices to help patients suffering from COVID-19.
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/03/21/business/bc-us-virus-outbreak-repurposing-factories.html - Petrochemicals also play a major role in medicine and healthcare in the manufacturing of vaccines and anti-biotics.https://context.capp.ca/articles/2019/feature_petroleum-in-real-life_pills
Here are some stories that get it right, or mostly right.
News Headline:
How Power and Gas Utilities Keep Energy Flowing in the Pandemic
The Facts:
With grocery store employees, doctors and other workers going above and beyond to ensure society can still access essentials, we also need to thank the workers keeping our power on.
- The energy industry is keeping our hospitals up and running and our grocery stores stocked.
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/transportation.php - Access to energy, especially during emergency response is crucial to maintaining human development.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikehughes1/2018/12/10/why-access-to-energy-should-be-a-basic-human-right/
