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Authors: Steve Coll

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Gabon, 141, 150

Gaddafi, Muammar, 97, 159, 531

Galante, Edward G., xiii, 210, 211–12, 314, 315–17, 332, 338

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 570

Galbraith, Peter, 570

G.A.M. (Free Aceh Movement) (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka), 102–3, 105, 111, 112, 143, 394–95, 401

in Banda-Aceh meeting, 115–17, 118

extortion campaign of, 93, 97–98

ExxonMobil and, 98–102, 110–11, 113–14, 119, 398–99

Gelbard’s diplomacy and, 99–102, 114, 115–20

Gamble, Mel, 173, 292–93, 294, 296–97

Gandhi, Mohandas, 182

Ganesan, Arvind, 106, 221–22, 405

Garba, Salibou, 160, 174–75

García Márquez, Gabriel, 137, 601

Garka, Boukinebe, 356

Garvin, Clifton C., Jr., 7, 47, 62, 76, 203–4, 634
n

Gary, Ian, 167

gasoline, 216–17, 497

chemical elements in, 381–82

growing consumption of, 379–80

historic high prices of, 419–20

Hurricane Katrina and, 319

oil dependency and, 618–19

retail, 371–74

taxing, 345

U.S. consumption of, 650
n

Gas Research Institute, 584, 585

Gas Technology Institute, 585

Gazprom, 53, 278

Geithner, Timothy, 169

Gelbard, Robert, xiv, 101–2, 113, 119

Aceh diplomacy of, 99–102, 114, 115–20

General Electric, 40, 74, 180, 318, 624–25

General Motors, 19, 40, 85, 318

General Services Administration, 288

Geological Operations, 158

Germany, 19, 253, 278, 587

Ghadhban, Thamir, xv, 233–36

Ghana, 472

Gheit, Fadel, 57

Gibson, Charles, 502

Gilbarco Veeder-Root, 374

Gillan, Joseph A., 73

Gilman, Howard, 551–52

Gilman, Mark, 191, 324, 325, 326, 591–92

Global Climate and Energy Project, 180–81

Global Climate Coalition, 85

Global Systems Model, 337

global warming, 77, 79, 81–83, 90, 91, 134, 180, 224, 226, 324, 345, 347–48, 440, 446, 498, 535, 596, 610, 619, 620, 621

G. W. Bush on, 89, 90

see also
climate change

Global Witness, 169

Gold, Russell, 587

Goldman Sachs, 554

Goldthwait, Christopher, xiv, 154–55, 157, 169, 170–71, 175, 359–60, 638
n

Goldwyn, David, 531

Golubev, Yuri, 269

Goodwin, Rockefeller, 40

GoodWorks International, 370

Google, 20, 551

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 13, 252, 255, 260

Gordon, Bart, 343

Gordon, Douglas, 241–42

Gore, Al, 68, 89, 181, 337–38, 339, 535–36, 635
n

Gorton, Slade, 15

Grameen Bank, 554

Grasso, Richard, 272

Gravity Magnetics Group, 158

Great Britain, 51, 58, 61, 85, 197, 200, 220, 231, 244, 261, 282, 286, 293, 455, 619

ExxonMobil operations in, 224

Great Depression, 540

Greco, John, 390

greenhouse effect, 88, 91, 301, 310, 500, 580, 585, 596

cap-and-trade debate and, 539, 547

ExxonMobil’s opposition to regulation of, 180–81, 336, 347–48, 479

natural process of, 77–78

Obama’s energy policy and, 543–44, 545–46, 547

Raymond’s Beijing speech on, 81–84

Rio Summit and, 80–81

see also
climate change; global warming

Greenpeace, 26, 34, 85, 181, 336, 536

ExxonMobil as targeted by, 182–88

ExxonMobil protest raid of, 186–88

internal culture of, 182

oil companies targeted by, 181–82

Greenspan, Alan, 200–201, 581, 586

Gref, German, 254, 277

Grumet, Jason, 498

GSAAuctions.gov, 288

Guatemala, 519

Gulf War of 1991, 228, 229, 511

Guyer, Jane, 165

Guzinsky, Vladimir, 271

Habré, Hissène, 155, 158–59

Hadley, Stephen, 239, 241, 252

Hagel, Chuck, 301–2

Hagen, Pete, 133

Haggar, Ali Abdel-Rhamane, 171

Haifa pipeline, 233–35

Haines, Robert, 72, 108, 113, 220, 342, 403, 563

Halliburton, 52, 67–68, 70, 145, 162, 235, 244, 373–74, 461–62, 567, 573, 602, 613

Halperin, Mark, 487

Hand, Henry, 145–46

Hansen, James, 78, 80, 90

Harper, Stephen, 545

Harris, John F., 487

Harrison, Otto, xiii, 14–15

Hart Research Associates, 554

Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, 481

Hassett, Kevin, 536

Hawrami, Ashti, 567

Hayward, Tony, 612

Hazelwood, Joseph, Jr., xv, 4–6, 634
n

Health and Human Services Department, U.S., 381

Heartland Institute, 86, 340, 345

Heimbold, Charles, 91

Heintz, Ron, 128

Henry, Jamie Lee, 334

Henry, Simon, 590

Henry Dunant Centre, 115

Heritage Foundation, 184, 232, 565

Heritage Mobil stations, 372

Hess Corporation, 514–15, 520, 529, 571

see also
Amerada Hess

Hewlett-Packard, 80

Hickel, Walter, 605

Hill, Christopher, 558

Hinchey, Maurice, 500

Hissène, Mahamat, 358, 367, 370

History of the Standard Oil Company, The
(Tarbell), 35

Hitchcock, Liz, 487, 491

Hochstein, Amos, 292, 295, 297

Houghton, James R., 315

House of Representatives, Nigerian, 466

House of Representatives, U.S., 73, 342, 343, 496, 617, 650
n

Energy and Commerce Committee of, 488, 489–90, 494, 551

Science and Technology Committee of, 343

toy safety bill in, 486

Waxman-Markey bill in, 552

Hoyt, Max, 488

Hubbard, Allan, 303–4

Hubble, Henry, 493–94

human rights, 170, 504, 510

Aceh war and, 101–5, 107, 110–11, 114, 118, 120, 396–98, 400

Equatorial Guinea and, 142–43, 145, 146–48, 150–51, 152–53, 296–97, 511–13, 516, 521, 529, 531–33

ExxonMobil and, 220–23, 404–5, 521

Human Rights Watch, 106, 152, 220–21, 222, 405, 531–32

Humble Oil and Refining, 3, 36, 61, 77, 608

Humphreys, Donald, 493

Hungary, 17, 587

Hunt, Hunter L., 569

Hunt, Ray L., 569–70

Hunt Oil, 568–71, 622

Hurricane Katrina, 319

Hurricane Rita, 319

Hurtt, Adrienne, 45

Hushka, Leslie, 481

Hussein, Saddam, 59, 227, 228, 230, 232, 360, 440, 558, 561, 564, 574

Hutchison, Kay Bailey, 335

Hutto, F. Chase,, III, 304–5

Hutton, Keith, 589

hydraulic fracturing, 580–81

hydrocarbons, classes of, 127

hydrogen, 437, 444–45

I.B.M., 19, 318

Ibrahim, Khalil, 357

Ijaw Patriotic Front, 456

Immelt, Jeffrey, 180

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S., 526

Imperial Oil, 544

Inconvenient Truth, An
(film), 337

India, 224, 257, 303, 310, 324, 415, 420, 422, 440, 457, 512, 559, 618, 620

Indonesia, 20, 59, 62, 93–94, 95, 99–100, 102, 104, 107, 112–13, 114–15, 116, 197, 232, 351, 352, 364, 415, 419, 636
n

John Doe
lawsuit and, 120, 399–406, 621

2004 tsunami in, 402–7

see also
Aceh war

Indonesian National Army,
see
T.N.I.

Industry and Trade Ministry, Indonesian, 114

Ingersol, Scott, 562

Inhofe, James, 87, 185

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (I.P.C.C.), 79, 81, 88, 347, 635
n

Interior Department, U.S., 605–8, 609, 610

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