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Lessons Learned? Tar Sands Producers Move to Cut Production

A remarkable thing just happened in Canada’s oil patch. Tar sands producers have actually started to cut oil production in the face of growing pipeline constraints.

GCAS wrap-up: Sparking a new conversation around “climate leadership”

A new definition of climate leadership has emerged, and the public outcry is deafening, even if thus far world leaders represented at GCAS seemed to strain to avoid hearing it.

Canadian Gov “Deliberately Withheld” Info on Spiralling Cost of Trans Mountain

"It appears as though the Canadian government deliberately withheld information about the costs of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline because it would have shocked Canadians at the time."

Pressure on US Bank Mounts with Actions at Shareholder Meeting in Albuquerque

This month we took escalated our campaign and took the fight directly to US Bank’s Annual Shareholder Meeting in Albuquerque, where representatives from pipeline resistance groups from across the nation told their stories directly to US Bank executives.

Fund managers recognise “imminent risks posed to fossil fuel investments from climate change”

"The fund management sector recognises the imminent risks posed to fossil fuel investments from climate change and the transition toward a zero-carbon economy”

Kinder Morgan: Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion May Now be “Untenable”

As Big Oil’s new poster boy, Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, scrabbles around for investors for Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline, extra finance may not be enough to save the controversial pipeline.

BP: Oil Spill Clean-up Operations a “Welcome Boost to Local Economies”

You would have thought that having been responsible for the largest offshore oil spill in US history, the Deepwater Horizon, which spilled an estimated 4 million barrels of oil into the sea, and cost you $65 billion, that as a company you would see oil spills as something to be avoided.

Meet John Bolton who says the UN Paris Agreement is a “self-licking ice cream cone”

The bombshell news came as it always does, with a thundering Donald Trump text.

Coast Guard responders “harmed by chemicals used to clean up BP’s spill”

A new study on Coast Guard workers who responded to the Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010 finds increased levels of exposure to toxic disperants led to a higher prevalence of coughing, shortness of breath, and more reporting of wheezing, skin rashes, vomiting and diarrhea.