Thread by @emahlee

I’m one of the Amazon employees who filed the climate shareholder resolution.

Same week Shipment Zero was announced, @bcmerchant reported Amazon, Goggle & MS have deals with oil companies, “collectively worth billions” to help them “churn out more oil.” gizmodo.com/how-google-mic…

https://twitter.com/higginsdunn/status/1104044599222435843

Amazon isn’t hiding this. No, it has a whole website dedicated to MARKETING to OIL COMPANIES explaining all the many ways Amazon can help them extract oil better and faster. Website is even called “AWS for Oil & Gas”

aws.amazon.com/oil-and-gas/

Amazon is actively wooing fossil fuel companies. Opening line in its “AWS for Oil and Gas:”

“With Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oil and Gas companies can accelerate digital transformation, unleash innovation to optimize production and profitability”

More of Amazon’s own words of courtship to oil companies:

“Whether it is finding oil, producing oil, or optimizing production, you can stop worrying about the constraints of High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure cost & capacity.”

Amazon sure knows its audience. Check out this drilling graphic (!), along with use cases in

- Drilling
- Reservoir Simulation
- Predictive Maintenance
- Pipeline Monitoring

Ohhh, and just what humanity needs:
“Reduce the cost per barrel”

In case Amazon’s public fervor for oil companies suddenly disappears and gets traded in for PDF love notes to their beloved fossil fuel costumers, here are more screenshots... if you can stomach it.

Amazon has a choice who it does business with. There’s a lot of money to be made in the sell of ams, for instance. Yet the company prohibits the sale of ammunition, explosives, and firearms.

sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/extern…

Amazon’s mission: “to be Earth’s most customer-centric company...”

News flash: customers are part of planet Earth. Actively helping oil companies burn down the planet isn’t good for customers, and isn’t good for the Earth.

Amazon advertising to oil companies at the Houston airport (someone texted me this photo):

“FUEL THE FUTURE
AWS (Amazon Web Services) Is How”

Hard to put into words how angry this makes me 😡🤬. It should read:

DESTROY THE FUTURE
AWS Is How

“America is now the world's largest oil producer”, ICYMI

This is due to the US shale oil boom which was made possible by “rapid technological advances in drilling.” Amazon’s ad was well placed. TX is the epicenter of the shale boom.

money.cnn.com/2018/09/12/inv…

The US is world's largest oil producer. And Amazon is *actively* helping. Maddening.

@JasonBordoff explains how AI is increasing production of oil and gas while reducing costs in this post from May, 2018:

blogs.wsj.com/experts/2018/0…

From @JasonBordoff in the WSJ: