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"Al Gore can personally do something" about ... whose lands were being threatened by loggers. (Occidental Petroleum was involved in neither of those two controversies.) The GOP ticket contains ...
It’s not exactly the stuff of scandal, Al Gore’s connection to Occidental Petroleum, but it doesn’t do much for his efforts to proclaim himself free of the “oil stain” he sees all over ...
He can thank some earlier events for paving over muddy ground, a time when his father, Al Gore Sr. met Occidental Petroleum’s CEO Armand Hammer at a cattle auction in the 1940s. When zinc was ...
Al Gore Sr. until his death in 1998. Occidental posted first-quarter revenues ... The U.S. government bought Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve near Bakersfield, Calif., in 1912 to provide oil ...
Vice President Al Gore and his representatives have engaged in quiet talks with environmental activists over the activists' demands that Mr. Gore shed his family's shares in Occidental Petroleum ...
Two things set the U'wa struggle and the Elk Hills sale apart from the corporate welfare so typical of the New Democrats: Al Gore's direct financial interest and his close relationship with Occidental ...
Occidental has come under fire for its plans to drill for oil on the land of the U’wa Indian tribe in northeastern Colombia. Al Gore’s family has shares in Occidental valued at up to $1 million.
We should say that two U’wa leaders were scheduled to be here in LA for the demonstration, but at the last moment they were denied entry visas to the United States. The history of the Gore ...
Al Gore seems to want no part of a long-standing battle being waged in Colombia, where an Indian community is fighting plans by Los Angeles–based Occidental Petroleum, which has ties to the vice ...
The Gore-Hammer past cannot be erased. But is it time now for Al Gore to begin cutting his money link with Occidental Petroleum? (c)2000, Creators Syndicate Inc. Embedded in Vice President Gore's ...
As President Clinton sang Al Gore’s praises yesterday to kick ... many of them calling on Gore to divest his family of shares in Occidental Petroleum Corp. Environmental and human rights ...
Five banner-wielding protesters descended upon Vice President Al Gore’s presidential campaign ... an indigenous group living in a remote part of Colombia. Gore has a $500,000 investment in Occidental ...