Reinvented Gore Returns to Capitol Hill
What a difference a few years makes. Last time he was on Capital Hill, Al Gore had to formally swear in George Bush who had just beaten him in the battle for the White House. Yesterday Gore returned to talk...
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Open Skies Plan Will Worsen Climate Change
Plans to be agreed today at the EU to open up transatlantic aviation and generate an extra 26 million air passengers over five years will undermine Europe's push to combat climate change, campaigners have warned. The "open skies" agreement is...
FBI Widens North Slope Oil Probe
The FBI is investigating whether Alaska political appointees improperly punished state regulators who tried to enforce environmental rules against oil companies operating in Alaska. The inquiry is connected to an ongoing criminal investigation of BP for allowing pipelines it operates...
Climate Change Moves the Maple Tree
Vermont is famous for its maple trees. But for how much longer? Climate change is pushing the North American maple zone gradually but inexorably northwards towards Canada. According to Rupert Cornwell in the Independent, one day soon the maple may...
Yukos Goes To Auction
The bankrupt Russian oil company Yukos, whose former owner Mikhail Khordorkovsky languishes in a Siberian prison, is to be sold off next month in the first in a series of “bargain basement” auctions. Russian bankruptcy officials have confirmed that the...
BP Employee Deleted Files From Computer Over Fire
A BP employee has admitted destroying documents after plaintiffs' lawyers subpoenaed her laptop on an anonymous tip that she had information useful in the lawsuits against the UK oil company arising from its fatal refinery explosion, reports the Financial Times....
Iraqi Cabinet Approves Draft Oil Law
The Iraqi Cabinet approved the highly controversial draft oil law yesterday, despite international condemnation that its gives huge control to multinational oil companies. The Iraqi Parliament will take up the measure when it reconvenes early next month after a recess....
Chavez Nationalizes Last Foreign Oil Fields
Even more trouble for the oil majors. Venezuela’s President Chavez has announced a new law that nationalizes the last remaining oil production sites that are under foreign company control. The nationalizations, which affect oil production in the heavy fuel Orinoco...
Shell’s Wood And Straw Biofuel
Shell plans to launch a new fuel made from wood chips and straw later this year from a pilot plant developed by Shell and Choren Industries, the German biofuel company. The synthetic diesel, made using a novel biomass-to-liquids (BTL) process,...
UK Watchdog: Blair the Climate Hypocrite
Ok, I know we have written about Blair’s hypocrisy on climate before, but it’s once again there for all to see. In the run up to the Brussels summit later this week, Blair has called on fellow European leaders “to...