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The Washington Timeswww.washingtontimes.com Stop endangering employeesBy John R. Lott Jr. and April L. DabneyPublished August 23, 2005 Banning guns from the workplace seems like the obvious way to prevent workplace violence. At least that is the policy at ConocoPhillips and many other companies. The nation's largest oil refiner bans employees from storing locked guns in their cars while parked in company parking lots. The issue erupted this month when the NRA announced a boycott of Conoco and Phillips 66 gasoline stations and editorial pages across the country attacked the NRA's action as outrageous.     Two-and-a-half years ago, 12 employees at...

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NRA Launches National Boycott Against ConocoPhillips Monday, August 01, 2005 LaPierre says NRA will “spare no effort or expense” to defend firearm freedom of employees of anti-gun corporations -- NRA billboard campaign unveiled: “ConocoPhillips is No Friend of the Second Amendment” (IDABEL, OK) – Vowing to “spare no effort or expense,” NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre launched an aggressive billboard advertising and national boycott campaign against energy giant ConocoPhillips, in response to the corporation’s anti-gun policy and actions. “Across the country, we’re going to make ConocoPhillips the example of what happens when a corporation takes away your Second Amendment...

ConocoPhillips on Wednesday outlined plans to expand its investments in Russia as the US oil and gas group reported a near-doubling in profits for the fourth quarter. ADVERTISEMENT The third-largest US energy group by production opened a reporting season for the major oil companies expected to be dominated by near-record earnings, but tempered by concerns over rising exploration and production cuts and increasing government intervention. Conoco's net profits climbed from $1.02bn to $2.43bn in the three months to December 31, with earnings per share rising from $1.48 to $3.44, ahead of the $3.07 consensus among analysts. Rising oil, gas and...

WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- ConocoPhillips will receive 1.5 million barrels of sweet crude from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to offset supply disruptions caused by Hurricane Ivan, the Energy Department said in a statement on its Web site. This brings the total amount of oil taken from the reserve in the past week and a half to 3.2 million barrels, earmarked to help refineries in hurricane-hit areas. The Energy Department said it will send three shipments of 500,000 barrels to ConocoPhillips' (COP: news, chart, profile) Freeport tanks over the next three weeks for further distribution to a Louisiana facility. A ConocoPhillips...

President Bush has "Lied to the American People" about his National Guard service during the Vietnam War, snarled U.S. Senator Tom Harkin at a September 9, 2004 press conference. Swift Boat veterans critical of John Kerry were also liars, Harkin claimed. Vice President Dick Cheney, said Harkin, was “a coward, who would not serve during the Vietnam War.” And those who brought up Kerry’s anti-war activities in the United States that encouraged the North Vietnamese Communists to continue fighting instead of negotiating peace, said Harkin, represent the “right-wing kooky fringe.” The hot-headed, gray-haired 65-year-old Harkin has lately become Democratic candidate...

Homosexuals Angry at ConocoPhillipsA major oil company has removed "sexual orientation" from its nondiscrimination policy. Homosexual activists are up in arms because another major oil company, ConocoPhillips, has pulled back from a policy that homosexuals covet. Conoco included the words "sexual orientation" until it merged with Phillips Petroleum last year. The new company erased the language, according to Kelly Shackelford, head of the Plano, Texas-based Freedom Foundation. Conoco-Phillips is based in Houston."Just as a lot of conservatives and pro-family people complain when people go the wrong direction, ConocoPhillips needs to be congratulated and, in fact, more business done with...

<p>HOUSTON — Shareholders of Conoco Inc. (COC) and Phillips Petroleum Co. (P) overwhelmingly approved the companies' proposed $15.6 billion merger in shareholders' meetings Tuesday.</p> <p>Shareholders for Houston-based Conoco and Bartlesville, Okla.-based Phillips met in those two cities and approved the merger by more than a 96 percent margin. The vote came a week after the European Union signed off on the marriage. Canada also has approved it.</p>