“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".
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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".
Only mere days after the biggest rally and march in support of climate action and against the Keystone XL pipeline in US history, another letter has been sent by a group of Senators calling for approval of the troublesome Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. And once again it's clear there's dirty energy money behind it.
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.
Is the fracking boom set to go spectacularly bust?
A year after the the Canadians launched a monitoring programme for the tar sands, no data has been released.
Yesterday history was made. The organisers had hoped for the largest climate rally in history, but even they were amazed at how many people turned up.
Recently released documents reveal that the Canadians are worried that the tar sands have become a “totemic issue, hitting directly on Brand Canada”.
Germany’s Environment Minister Peter Altmaier has said that the country wants to "limit" fracking.
Has RBS stopped financing the tar sands?
Officials from the European Commission see Keystone XL as an export pipeline from America to the EU.