Big Oil v Big Hollywood
The new Hollywood film about fracking, which stars Matt Damon, entitled “Promised Land” could tap into the growing grassroots rebellion against the technique which is slowly sweeping across America.
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Exxon’s Dangerous Outlook
ExxonMobil presented its latest Energy Outlook report recently, the 2013 Outlook for Energy: a view to 2040. The report is chock full of figures and graphs showing an inexorable rise in global energy demand and supply and the growing market for Exxon’s products.
Texas Judge Stops KXL
In yet another victory for anti-Keystone XL protestors, a Texas Judge has ordered that TransCanada temporarily stop work on the pipeline.
Imagine There’s No Fracking
Yesterday Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon placed a full-page advert in the New York Times, calling on the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo to “Imagine There’s No Fracking… and give clean energy a chance.”
“Still barreling down the highway to a dangerously warming world”
Not much was expected of the UN’s 18th conference on climate change in Doha, Qatar, and not much was delivered.
UK Set to Frack, Baby, Frack
To facilitate Britain's “Dash for Gas”, the Chancellor George Osborne is expected to give the green light to widespread fracking across the UK and will consult on giving lucrative tax breaks to the fracking industry.
Oops: Shell’s Spill Dome “Crushed like a Beer Can”
Documents reveal that Shell's oil spill containment dome is "crushed like a beer can,” in tests.
World Faces 4-6 Degree Temp Rise
New research shows that, unless radical action is taken, we are on course for a 4 to 6 degree warming by the end of the century.
Obama Continues to “Drill Baby Drill”
Later today as part of Obama’s “All of the Above” energy strategy, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will hold an oil and gas lease sale that will make more than 20 million offshore acres available to oil and gas drilling.