US Oil Sector Eyeing ‘Moral Case’for Fossil Fuels?

摘要

Faced with intensifying grassroots opposition,the US oil sector may increasingly look to ‘moral’ arguments for oil and gas as an unconventional tool to combat public backlash.The latest manifestation of the threats in the US to industry’s ‘social license to operate’ can be seen in Colorado,the nation’s fifth-biggest crude producer.There,a setback measure that could potentially curb more than two-thirds of future drilling jumped onto the November ballot with precedential levels of support (OD Oct.3’18).