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<p>Locating and analyzing the ethics of ‘corporate vultures’ in the Alberta oil and gas industry, this study responds to calls to better understand how corporations fail to serve people who are poor, disempowered, or involuntarily displaced; how they collude with state actors to ‘dictate life and death;’ and how they ‘invisibilize’ mortality and erase or mystify the violence that they do. Drawing on 10&#xa0;years of government well-license reports, well-listing data for over 600,000 wells, and a series of secondary reports, the study examines these actors and their effects through the lens of the ‘necro’ (i.e., necrocapitalism, necroptics, and necro-waste). In so doing, the study finds that these corporations act more like vampires than vultures. It also challenges existing business ethics arguments regarding the moral acceptability of these corporations’ practices. Finally, it questions the taken-for-granted way in which critics reproduce the term ‘vulture.’</p>

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Vultures, Vampires, and Necro-waste in the Oil and Gas Industry

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    2026年4月19日

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  • Jeff Everett,
  • Dean Neu,
  • Abu Shiraz Rahaman,
  • Greg Saxton,
  • Kieran Taylor-Neu,
  • Minqi Liu

摘要

Locating and analyzing the ethics of ‘corporate vultures’ in the Alberta oil and gas industry, this study responds to calls to better understand how corporations fail to serve people who are poor, disempowered, or involuntarily displaced; how they collude with state actors to ‘dictate life and death;’ and how they ‘invisibilize’ mortality and erase or mystify the violence that they do. Drawing on 10 years of government well-license reports, well-listing data for over 600,000 wells, and a series of secondary reports, the study examines these actors and their effects through the lens of the ‘necro’ (i.e., necrocapitalism, necroptics, and necro-waste). In so doing, the study finds that these corporations act more like vampires than vultures. It also challenges existing business ethics arguments regarding the moral acceptability of these corporations’ practices. Finally, it questions the taken-for-granted way in which critics reproduce the term ‘vulture.’