Shell Emissions Still Going Up, Despite Accounting Device
Shell's climate claims don't add up - a closer look at the oil giant's plans.
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“We are going to not allow Kinder Morgan to finish this pipeline”
As the clock ticks down until the May 31 deadline over the controversial Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline project, which will triple the amount of tar sands being transported from Alberta to the British Columbian coast, the campaign against its...
DAPL “Could be Operational Within 30 Days” After Legal Setback
Yesterday, a federal judge refused to issue a temporary injunction against construction of the highly controversial Dakota Access Pipeline. The latest setback for the First Nations fighting the pipeline means that it could be “operational in as little as 30...
US Frackers to “Pump and Pray”
The oil industry often prides itself in pushing the boundaries of technology. The whole fracking revolution has been driven by the industry pioneering new techniques to exploit oil and gas that was previously out of reach.
API’s Latest “Ridiculous” Anti-Tax Campaign
Any regular reading of this blog will know that that the good old American Petroleum Institute (API) is fairly wizard-like when it comes to conjuring up numbers of how many people the industry supports or employs. Up to September 2009,...
“Compromised” API Set for Key Safety Role
So its back to business as usual. Bob Dudley, BP’s chief executive, is set to announce a resumption of dividend payments tomorrow as a signal to investors that the oil giant is back on track, after last year’s Deepwater disaster....
Carbon Offsets: “a heightened potential for deception”
The US Federal Trade Commission, which regulates advertising in the US, is investigating America’s burgeoning carbon offset market and whether it is subject to greenwashing and misleading advertising. Companies and shoppers in the US spent over $54 million last year...
Old School Profits – More on Exxon Mobil’s fat profits
The news that ExxonMobil has just posted the highest profits in history should bring down to earth those congenital optimists who, for the last 20 years or so, have been claiming that the best way to do well is to...
The Billion Dollar Plunder
A top Interior Department official was told nearly three years ago about a legal blunder that allowed oil companies to avoid billions of dollars in payments for oil and gas pumped from publicly owned waters in the US. According to...
Civil Society to Takaichi: Stop Using the Hormuz Energy Crisis to Increase Asia’s Fossil Fuel Dependency
30 civil society organizations released a statement today urging Japan to stop exploiting the global energy crisis triggered by the US-Israeli war on Iran to push its fossil fuel agenda across Asia Pacific.