Derailing the Tar Sands Train Idea
The State Department missed the main point about the anti-KXL campaign – which is not about either pipeline or shipping oil by rail, road or tanker – it is about keeping the tar sands in the ground.
Andy Rowell
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60,000 Say No to EDF’s Legal Bullying
Just under 60,000 people have now signed a petition that demands that the French energy company EDF drop a sinister lawsuit against 21 climate change activists who occupied one of its power plants last year.
BP’s $9 Billion Spill Tax Scam
BP could settle the Deepwater Horizon spill trial and offset a whopping $9 billion against it tax bill
“BP was blinded by greed”
After months of delay, the trial of the century finally opened yesterday in New Orleans. Outside rows of protesters had banners with "Restore the Gulf", "#makeBPpay", and "Never Forget".
“Overwhelming evidence that BP is grossly negligent”
Today, nearly three years after BP’s disastrous Deepwater Horizon spill, which claimed eleven lives and led to the largest oil spill in US history, the company is finally due in the dock.
Beware the Shale Gas Bubble
Is the fracking boom set to go spectacularly bust?