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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.

Days After Shell Issues Glossy “Climate” Report, It Faces Legal Action for Failure to Act on Climate

The environmental group, Friends of the Earth in the Netherlands has announced that it will take Shell to court if the company does not act on “demands to stop its destruction of the climate”.

White House Launches Inquiry into Pruitt’s Deal With Wife of Energy Lobbyist

There is a growing political scandal surrounding the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the climate denier, Scott “Polluting" Pruitt

Former British PM, David Cameron, Argues Fracking is “Essential” for Post-Brexit UK

In 2006, the ex-British Prime Minister, David Cameron, famously went to the Arctic to see the effects of climate change for himself.

A New Golden Age for Big Oil or a Golden Goodbye?

Goldman Sachs, the hugely influential investment bank has issued a report on the “Seven Sisters”, the world's largest oil companies, arguing that having “survived a life-changing crisis” the companies are “now poised to reap the rewards”.

BC Gov. Losses Appeal against Trans Mountain Pipeline As Local Resistance Grows

As local opposition against the highly controversial Trans Mountain pipeline in Canada continues to grow, pipeline construction passed another legal hurdle after the federal Court of Appeal ruled against the government of British Colombia’s latest legal challenge.

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.

“I’m taking this action to protect my grandchildren’s future”

Just because you get older, it doesn’t mean you cannot stop taking action for what you believe in. And yesterday was a case in point. Two seventy year olds, still putting their bodies on the line for environmental justice and indigenous rights.

An Early April’s Fool? Statoil Rebrands itself As Equinor

The Norwegian company, Statoil, is proposing to change its name to “Equinor”. The rebranding exercise – or what some may call greenwashing exercise - will cost as much as 250 million kroner or $32 million.