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Transporting Tar Sands “As Dangerous” As Shale Oil

There is growing evidence that transporting tar sands oil maybe as inherently dangerous as carrying the volatile Bakken shale oil.

100 Presidential Words Stop 1000 Miles of KXL…for now

Yesterday, in a moment described as void of “drama or fanfare,” he vetoed legislation which would have forced approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry dirty tar sands oil Alberta to the Gulf Coast.

Oil Giant Shell Shelves Dirty Tar Sands Mine

In a sign that the oil price plunge is really beginning to bite, yesterday oil giant Royal Dutch Shell announced that the company is indefinitely postponing plans to develop a new tar sands mine in northern Alberta.

Climate Sceptic’s Fossil Fuel Funding Exposed

For nearly two decades avid researcher, Kert Davies, has been hunting climate deniers and exposing their links to the fossil fuel industry.

IHS’s predictable Keystone study adds nothing new

IHS published today a predictable and hollow attempt to rebut much of our work on Keystone XL’s links to markets beyond North America and the ability of rail to replace the pipeline.

Fracking Industry Learns From Big Tobacco

As so often in the past, where the tobacco industry leads, the oil industry follows.

BP Out of Touch on Climate and Clean Energy Technology

How BP's Outlook for Energy looks to the past not the future