A summary of the Legal Affairs and Community Safety Committee’s examination of the Summary Offences and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019. The committee’s task was to consider the policy to be achieved by the legislation and the application of fundamental legislative principles – that is, to consider whether the Bill has sufficient regard to the […]
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2019 Explanatory Note for Queensland protest criminalization bill
The Queensland government’s proposal for Australia’s first anti-protest law, often referred to as Queensland’s “Dangerous Devices” law.
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2013 MacDonald Laurier Institute whitepaper “New Beginnings: How Canada’s Natural Resource Wealth Could Re-shape Relations with Aboriginal People”
In 2012, four First Nations women
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2010 Craig Robertson emails about ad budget and messaging
Emails between Chevron staff and their ad agency about an ad campaign attacking various members of the Lago Agrio litigation team.
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Fine & Associates Borja Investigation Report Summary
Report on contents of approximately six hours of recorded conversations and 25 pages of printouts of on-line chats between Diego Borja, a former Chevron contractor who conducted the secret videotaping of a judge overseeing the environmental lawsuit in Lago Agrio (Aguinda v. ChevronTexaco), and a 32-year-old Ecuadoran, Santiago Escobar.
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Veiga email suggesting paid ads to attack plaintiffs and make Chevron points in Lago Agrio case
Emails between Chevron PR staff and external firms on attack ads focused on Lago Agrio plaintiffs.
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Standard Oil briefing on legislation being proposed in the U.S. around Aramco’s discriminatory labor practices.
A memo to SONJ publicist Earl Newsom about the situation in Washington as various Congressional leaders are attempting to address discriminatory hiring and labor practices at Saudi Aramco’s U.S. offices.
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1950s Aramco Survey of US Opinion on Oil Companies’ Involvement in International Relations
Results from a 1950s opinion survey Standard Oil of New Jersey commissioned to gauge how Americans view its partnership with Aramco and activities in the Middle East.
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Joint statement from investor-owned oil companies and government of Iran on 1954 oil deal
Joint press release from a consortium of 8 oil companies and the government of Iran about how the oil industry will operate there and how/whether BP will be compensated for loss in revenue due to changes to its oil contract with the country. What’s quite interesting to note here is that the release appears to […]
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Standard Oil Pamphlet on Red Line Agreement
An overview of Standard Oil of New Jersey’s (today ExxonMobil) activities in the Middle East, including an explanation of the “Red Line Agreement,” from the Earl Newsom Archive at UW Madison in Wisconsin.