The Bolivian government has taken full control of a key gas pipeline company after talks with the foreign firm that held a controlling stake broke down. It is the latest move in the Bolivian president's recent effort to nationalise key...
Deputy Premier of Alberta Ron Stevens is in Washington this week, meeting with Bush Administration officials and members of Congress to promote the importation of dirty tar sands oil to the United States. Oil Change and our coalition partners took...
Major commercial fish stocks around the world could collapse within decades as global warming compounds damage from pollution and overfishing, according to the UN. "You overlay all of this and you are potentially putting a death nail in the coffin...
The US is ready to accept "binding international obligations" on reducing greenhouse gas emissions if other nations do the same, according to officials. The US hopes the world's major economies will conclude a "leaders' declaration" before the July G8 summit....
Interesting op-ed from a Silicon Valley newspaper by the CEO of Akeena Solar, which calls itself America’s leading solar installer. The CEO, Barry Cinnamon, argues “This week the House of Representatives will vote on the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation...
Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein Sharistani said Iraq intends to almost double its oil production over the next two years per day from 2 million bpd to 4.5 million bpd within two years'. He said the goal will be reached thanks...
The British government is in “danger of losing credibility on climate change” because more than half of all its departments are failing to reduce their carbon emissions enough to reach levels that the nation as a whole is expected to...
In contrast to record profits at Shell and Exxon, Profits at BP, the UK's largest company, fell 22 per cent to $17.29 billion last year. The oil giant confirmed it would cut 5,000 jobs and target a 20 per cent...
As the US government invites tenders for oil and gas leases in the Chukchi Sea, just days before a ruling on whether the polar bear should be added to the list of endangered species, it is facing a new scandal....
Interesting blog from the Canada’s Globe and Mail. Andrew Willis from the Globe looks at the recent criticism BP has gotten for investing in oil sands. Notice the dichotomy between the city investors that argue BP should invest in oil...
