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TransCanada has no plans to use cutting edge anti-pollution technology on the KXL, despite 12 spills on the Southern leg of the pipeline.

Australia’s Climate Commission, the official body that advises the country’s government, has warned that 80 per cent of global fossil fuel reserves will have to stay in the ground, if we are to avoid dangerous climate change.

Next week at the G8 meeting in Northern Ireland world leaders will focus on three main themes, summed up by 3 words beginning with T: trade, tax and transparency. But now you can add a fourth T to the list: tar sands.

By inviting Harper to address its Parliament, the British government is explicitly condoning Harper's policy on extracting the dirty tar sands, which has recently been labelled as "cultural genocide".

The Chinese state oil company, CNOOC has become the first Chinese oil company to invest in Arctic oil.

The story of the Detroit petcoke pile should give the Obama administration some serious pause as they consider the Keystone XL decision.

The State of California is fast becoming the front line in America’s fracking wars.

The official policy of the Obama administration now asserts that the social cost of carbon emissions to society are 60% higher than they previously estimated.

The hype surrounding Britain’s impending fracking boom reached near fever pitch yesterday as one of the UK’s leading fracking companies vastly increased the estimate of its potential reserves.

The government of British Colombia has officially expressed its opposition to Enbridge’s controversial $6 billion Northern Gateway pipeline project, saying it fails to address the province's environmental concerns.