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Climate Change “could be left out” of Obama’s Speech

Predicting political speeches is always fraught with difficulty, but there have been enough leaks to suggest that Barack Obama’s State of Union address will  scale back his ambitious plans on both health-care as well as climate change. Instead the President...

Canada’s Reputation “At Risk” Over Tar Sands

Timing, they say, is everything. Click on a copy of Canada’s National Post and one of the banner adverts today is from Shell talking about the “New Energy Future”. Part of Shell’s “new Energy Future” is the Canadian tar sands,...

BP: Peak Demand Will Happen Before Peak Supply

Various blogs on the site over the last few months have warned about what peaking global demand will do for the oil industry. Last August in the blog “What About the Demand-Side Warning?” we quoted Lorne Stockman, the author of...

Canada: The Climate Change Bully

Timed with perfection to undermine the meeting between Canada’s Premier Stephen Harper and Barack Obama, Greenpeace has issued a new report labelling Canada as a “climate change bully” that is doing everything in its power to undermine a new agreement...

FT: Ending subsidies is “An idea whose time has come”

I don’t know how many G20 leaders will have time to read the FT website today, but they should. The paper’s editorial is nothing short of staggering. It starts by stating “As addictions go, the world’s addiction to fossil fuels...

US Action on Climate Dismissed as “Measly”

66 days to go and the heat is being turned up on America and other industrialised nations in the pre-Copenhagen talks. Less than 24 hours after Democrats announced their plans for a climate bill in the Senate, the initiative was...

Police Use Anti-Terror Laws Against Climate Activists

Tomorrow is the “Great Climate Swoop” where hundreds of climate activists will demonstrate against E.ON's Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottingham. It is a protest aimed at raising the issue of climate change in the run up to the Copenhagen Summit in December....

The $120 Billion Hidden Cost of Our Addiction

For a long time now people have argued that if you internalised the external costs of our fossil fuel addiction, we would soon realise that our habit was too expensive and we would be left with no alternative but to...

Shell to Fight Chinese in Nigeria

Shell is facing the humiliation of having to reduce its workforce by 5000 as part of a radical cost-cutting drive due to the falling oil price. As the oil giant’s profits had plummeted an amazing 73 per cent, Peter Voser,...