Eliza Evans experiments with data, archives, and bureaucracy to identify and exploit disconnections and contradictions in social, economic, and ecological systems. With ruthless study, analysis, and wit, Evan locates the points where the logic of these systems is vulnerable to pressure and collapse.

Hellfire Holdings

Suing Big Oil for Fun & Profit
Own a Lawsuit Stick it to Climate Criminals Invest in Justice

(Technically this is art, not investing. Don’t tell the SEC.)

Frontline communities rarely get their day in court. Why? Because lawsuits cost millions, drag on for years, and Big Oil hires all the lawyers, not because they need them, but to make sure no one’s left to fight for the people they’ve harmed.

We bankroll high-risk lawsuits led by the people directly harmed by extraction—cases that can set precedent, rattle markets, and make the most (allegedly) criminal industry in history pay for its misdeeds. We want you to join us.

This isn’t philanthropy.
It’s not impact investing.
It’s a direct investment in accountability.
We’re not hedging the end of the world—we’re underwriting the fight to take it back.

If you had limitless resources how much would you be willing to invest to so that frontline communities had a chance to seek justice?

Landman for the planet

We believe there mineral rights owners out there who are open to investing their mineral rights and/or royalties in a just climate future. Oil and gas royalty owners earn about $22B each year from extraction. If just 1% of that amount, equivalent to $220 million, were deployed to support a just, sustainable, and desirable future, think of what can be achieved. By fostering communication and collaboration, we can build a positive, collective legacy.

Landman for the Planet is a resource for those who want to support front-line communities and those already building a just climate future, who want to share insights and make collaborative investments, and for those who wish to place their mineral rights in the hands of those committed to the climate future.

All the way to hell

All the Way to Hell is a participatory, monumental, site-specific land-based work that converts 1000 individual gestures into a new form of environmental resistance at the intersection of property law, fossil fuel business practice, and bureaucracy. I plan to transfer my mineral rights to 1000 people. Because it costs developers just as much to acquire 500 acres as it does much smaller properties, this aggressive fragmentation of the property will inhibit fossil fuel interest in it. Contractors hired by drilling companies are required to research land title, contact mineral owners, negotiate and execute lease agreements, and register those agreements locally for each mineral property they intend to drill. The aim is to make these mineral rights as inconvenient and expensive to acquire as possible.

All the Way to Hell is a model for resistance in any U.S. region vulnerable to fossil fuel development. I am designing the project to be a platform for large-scale, distributed noncooperation. The new owners of these tiny mineral properties can form the foundation for a 100-year sit-in.