That the international oil majors face unprecedented challenges in growing their resource base is well known. Shut out of the richest pickings in OPEC countries and increasingly out performed by national oil companies, they have been forced to invest in...
When the history of the hydrocarbon age is written, the one company that will personify Big Oil more than any other will be Exxon. Yes, there are other oil majors like Shell and BP, but they are like young pretenders...
This is a cross-post from Transition Voice. Written by Erik Curren Can the president who killed Osama bin Laden now stand up to Big Oil? Encouraged by comments made by House Speaker John Boehner that subsidies for oil and gas...
For those who may not have heard yet, there's a huge and historic battle brewing in California. Proposition 23, if passed would suspend the California Global Warming Act of 2006 (AB 32) which requires that greenhouse gas emissions in the...
We know that the Koch brothers fund climate change deniers. But now a great new report by Climate Action Network Europe (CAN-E) has analysed new data to track where dirty money is going in American politics. They have found nearly...
In a date that seems to pander to the needs of the investors and politicians rather than the engineers, BP has set a deadline of 27 July to cap the leaking Macondo well. According to the Wall Street Journal the...
The Washington Post leads this morning on how the critical players in the Gulf disaster are all hiring public relations consultants like they are going out of fashion to try and repair their battered and bruised images. BP, according to...
Tens of millions of people watched the glittering closing ceremony last night as the Winter Olympics drew to a close in Vancouver. To cap off the games, Canada was celebrating a record number of gold medals and a prized win...
In the course of the past month, BP tripled the number of tar sands projects it’s developing, from one to three. While it rocked the tar sands industry back in December 2007, with its announcement of a joint venture with...
Exxon has often been signalled out as the company doing the most to undermine the science of climate change. But this is no longer the case. There is a new secret climate sceptic funding machine and it is called Koch...
