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Exxon Lobbyist Sees No "Catastrophic, Inevitable Risk" From Climate Change

Published on November 24, 2021

During a November 9, 2021 presentation to the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC), Exxon lobbyist Erik Oswald downplayed the impact of climate change, telling the crowd "Is it catastrophic, inevitable risk? Not to my mind."

The Washington Post first reported on the audio on November 24, 2021 in a piece by Desmond Butler: Exxon lobbyist questions urgency of climate’s catastrophic risks

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Panel Hosted by the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC), Obtained by Documented.

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Exxon Lobbyist Sees No "Catastrophic, Inevitable Risk" From Climate Change: this m4a audio file was automatically transcribed by Sonix with the best speech-to-text algorithms. This transcript may contain errors.

Erik Oswald:
The way we think about this is not as the Crusaders for the climate fix, but we're looking at markets that are looking at ways for the company, the city, the state and the country to (unclear). And those those markets already are well on their way to developing. So it's really about winning in those markets. It's a strange deal for a scientist but people, people are willing to pay a premium, a green premium. All around the world their showing that they're willing to do that. Why they're doing that? You know that's another question. There's lots of markets that are. I mean, people bought sugar-free, people. There's all kinds of markets that are unhinged from hard facts. So the way I look at it as a scientist is, all's I need to think about is, is there, is there a risk? Yes, there's risk. Is it catastrophic inevitable risk? Not in my mind. But there's risk. And so if we're going to work on this you know as a as a society, if we're going to work on this risk, then my only ask is, let's do it as efficiently as possible. Find me the cheapest way to put the most CO2 in the ground. And that's what I'm willing to engage in a conversation on.

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