The “Corporate Captured” COP
They say history never repeats itself, but a year ago at the United Nations climate talks in Doha, a typhoon hit the Philippines, killing hundreds of people and leaving an estimated quarter of million people homeless.
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Time to Learn from Tobacco
Yesterday over 70 NGOs released a letter calling on the United Nations to implement new rules to safeguard the global climate talks from the undue influence of the fossil fuel industry.
Britain’s Fracking Hype Gathers Pace
The hype surrounding Britain’s impending fracking boom reached near fever pitch yesterday as one of the UK’s leading fracking companies vastly increased the estimate of its potential reserves.
Massive protest at California Chevron refinery a show of movement strength
This weekend, thousands of community members, movement leaders, and allies marched to the Chevron refinery in Richmond, California. Our demands were simple: Stop polluting our community, wrecking our climate, and buying off our democracy.
Senators send pro-Keystone XL letter, once again drenched with oil money
Only mere days after the biggest rally and march in support of climate action and against the Keystone XL pipeline in US history, another letter has been sent by a group of Senators calling for approval of the troublesome Keystone...
Arkansas: Exxon’s latest spill and spin zone
Arkansas has become the latest scene of an Exxon oil spill, and the subsequent spin attempts to side-step blame. The truth tells a different story.
Al Gore Tells Obama to Cancel KXL
Love him or loath him, you can say one thing Al Gore at the moment. He is certainly winding the Canadians up into a right old rage. Yesterday I blogged how he had called the tar sands to an “open...
US Gas Flaring Visible from Space
The volume of gas flared in the US has tripled in just five years due to the boom in shale oil. And the flares from the main oil shale fields are now so great they are visible from space
“We’re facing a very strong, almost revolutionary movement”
Patrick Daniel knows he is in trouble. The CEO of Enbridge, the company that wants to build the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta to British Colombia to export the dirty tar sands, admits that his opponents have “seized control...
Big Coal Plays Dirty
One of America’s top reporters who exposes the antics of the coal industry is being sued for libel by one of the largest independent coal barons. Ken Ward JR, who has been labelled as “one of the nation’s top coal...