Controversial Utah Tar Sands Mine “Put on Hold”
Every day the low oil price is causing more pain for the oil and gas industry and no company or region is immune from the damage being caused.
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Chevron Must Think We Are Stupid
Sometimes the best laid plans go awry. Oil giant Chevron’s multi-million ad campaign, entitled “We agree” has back-fired badly. What’s worse it has given its critics a real opportunity to spoof the company’s highly misleading adverts.. And boy are they...
Don’t Worry – Be Happy
[caption id="attachment_4803" align="alignleft" width="242" caption="Sandison/Greenpeace"][/caption] “Don’t Worry” - be happy – that is Tony Hayward’s birthday message to his staff. Hayward has returned home to London to chair a crisis board meeting, trying to give his staff an upbeat message....
MPs Demand More Help for North Sea Workers as UK Shifts to Renewables
Call comes as world energy ministers descend on London for energy security summit
Letter from 188 U.S. Environmental Groups Urges EU Commissioners to Reject Trump’s Pressure to Purchase U.S. Liquified Natural Gas (LNG)
Today, 188 groups based in communities burdened by gas infrastructure and their allies throughout the United States sent a letter to EU Commissioners asking them to refuse to bow to U.S. President Donald Trump’s pressure to increase the bloc’s reliance...
Is the Senate Energy Committee being handed to Big Oil?
A game of political musical chairs has set off a transition that will hand Big Oil the keys to the influential Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. What's worse, the whole thing could have been avoided.
Don’t Frack California media roundup
Thousands of Californians rallied in Sacramento on March 15th, calling for Governor Jerry Brown to stop fracking in the state...and the media turned out in force as well. Below is a brief roundup of some of our favorite reports on...
Senate Fails to Cut Favors to Big Oil, Once Again
Earlier today President Obama challenged Congress to either stand with Big Oil, or stand with the American people. A vote on legislation introduced by Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) that would have eliminated over $2.4 billion in annual tax deductions to...
ExxonMobil’s PR Chief Gives Empty Retort to Oil Change
Last week we exposed ExxonMobil’s Outlook for Energy as a corporate fantasy rather than a forecast. ExxonMobil's head of public affairs called our work ill-informed and "odious" but chose not to answer our arguments...
“Do I die by starvation or do I die by poisoning?”
The Canadian press is reporting that the Albertan government is preparing to release new data “within weeks” about cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan, the First Nations community which is just under 300 kilometers north of Fort McMurray.