After Election Fiasco, Britain’s New Environment Secretary Is “Unfit for the Job”
Britain's new Environment Secretary was once the most hated politician in the land. It is easy to understand why.
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The Reclusive Climate Denying Puppet-Master Behind Trump
When Donald Trump promised to drain the swamp, many of his supporters hoped he would take on the political and media establishment and radically shake them both up.
Kinder Morgan: “We’ll do what it takes legally to stop it”
The battle for the Dakota Access pipeline is not the only pipeline fight in North America. Later today, the Canadian cabinet of Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is expected to review the evidence from a special Ministerial Panel on the highly...
Don’t let fossil fuel subsidies undermine clean energy momentum in Canada
On Tuesday, Justin Trudeau’s government unveiled their first budget. There’s good news, and there’s bad news.
The heart of a mountain lain on its side – Blacksburg, Virginia
Mika Minio-Paluello, Anna Galkina and James Marriott are travelling in North America as part of a tour over September and October to promote The Oil Road – Journeys from the Caspian to the City of London. This is the second...
ALEC and Heartland Try to Kill Renewables
Stealth lobby group ALEC is teaming up with our old-friends, the climate denial-machine, the Heartland Institute to write laws that repeal state-level renewable energy targets.
TOTAL Says No to Arctic Oil Drilling
In the fight for the Arctic and the planet’s future, this is big news. We are witnessing a split in Big Oil’s attitude to the Arctic.
Koch’ed up: Petcoke’s political pollution
If there's a statistical correlation between dirty oil and dirty politics, we have yet to quantify it – but here's another story for the pile of anecdotal evidence.
Bolshoi Petroleum is “environmental villain number one”
Ever since BP’s complex deal with Russian giant Rosneft was announced late last Friday, the list of critics to the deal has been growing. Take today’s leader in the Financial Times that calls the deal “risky, ethically vexing” and a...
Justice Begins at Home
In May 1998, 121 unarmed youths from the 42 communities of Ilajeland in the Niger Delta decided to join the waves of protests against the oil companies sweeping the region. Whereas many of the previous protests had been against Shell,...