ENV-15-70 How Environmental Groups’ Evolving Anti- Fossil Fuel Strategy Made Crude-by-Rail So Complicated

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This paper analyzes the following: • The energy world as it existed in 2008 and the associated anti-fossil fuel strategy of environmental Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). • The Shale Oil and Gas revolution and how that has impacted the global competitive position of the petrochemical and petroleum refining industries. • The energy world as it exists in 2015 and the evolved anti-fossil fuel strategy of the NGOs. • The impact of the NGO’s new strategy on the oil and gas industry with particular focus on the crude-by-rail mode of transportation. • The inherent advantages that NGOs have over industry in pursuing their anti-fossil fuel strategy. • Potential actions the refining and petrochemical industry can take to protect its competitive advantage.