The Niger Delta: “Swallowed by Shell’s Sea”
It is sixty years ago this year that the oil giant, Shell, first found oil at Oloibiri in Ijawland in the Niger Delta, after fourteen years of searching.
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Lifting the Crude Oil Export Ban: Supply Side and Climate Commonsense
In which we demonstrate that dismissing the climate impact of lifting the crude oil export ban is wrong.
Activists Blockade US Tar Sands Mine
Yesterday, about 40 protestors disrupted the work on the Utah tar sands strip mine, the first to be built in the US, located in the Book Cliffs wilderness area.
Mexico’s “Sale of the Century”
Mexico is opening up its lucrative offshore oil fields for the first time in 80 years, and in the words of the Financial Times, which devotes a whole page of the paper to the subject, “it is shaping up to...
Newsletter: On the Edge: 1.4 Million Barrels per Day of Proposed Tar Sands Oil is on Life Support
It is no secret that Canadian tar sands oil is among the highest carbon, highest cost sources of oil in the world. Its rapid growth over the past decade has been the result of a near perfect storm of conditions...
As KXL Vote Nears in Senate, Big Oil Begins Ad Blitz
Today could be the day when the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline could take a decisive turn. Later today the Senate is expected to debate what on the surface is a bipartisan energy efficiency bill, but pro-KXL Senators could...
EU Buckles to Brutal Canadian Lobbying Over the Tar Sands
After one of the most aggressive and disingenuous lobbying campaigns in recent years, Canada has won “big concessions” in its fight against the landmark European climate legislation, called the Fuel Quality Directive (FQD)
Canadians Spin Huge Pollution Levels as “Responsible Development”
Canada’s monitoring of the dirty tar sands is clearly failing the local communities, despite attempts by the region's politicians to spin it otherwise.
The Madness of Exploiting Methane Hydrates
We are now willingly exploiting a new resource of carbon, knowing it will lead to climate chaos.
“Pulling a Con Job” on Fracking
The leader of Canada’s opposition party, the NDP, Tom Mulcair has accused one of Canada’s leading oil and gas lobby organisations of “pulling a con job” whilst trying to promote fracking. Out political campaigning over the weekend, Mulcair slammed the...