A report released this week by the Government Accountability Project (GAP), a whistleblower protection organization based in Washington D.C., demonstrates the politicization of climate science. According to GAP, political policies and practices "have increasingly restricted the flow of scientific information...
Oh dear, Channel Four’s reputation is now in freefall after more revelations on its supposedly ground-breaking programme, “The Great Global Warming Swindle.” On Monday we blogged how Carl Wunsch, who had been interviewed for the programme, now complained that “I...
Although huge petroleum deposits have long been known in Iraq's Kurdish north and Shiite south, Iraq has substantially increased its estimates of the amount of oil and natural gas in deposits on Sunni lands, especially in Anbar province. Iraq has...
Just as Exxon Mobil posted the largest annual profits by an American company of just under $40 billion, the dark side of oil was exposed again. Eighteen years on, a new study by US government scientists has found that crude...
There is something of the ironic here. At the same time as scientists are meeting in Paris to put their final touches to the latest IPCC a report (which is warning over accelerated warming and melting), experts are meeting in...
Thousands of blackened and oiled sea-birds have been recovered from the sea and coasts surrounding the stricken container ship, MSC Napoli, which is beached off the Devon coast in South West England. Some 200 tonnes of oil has formed a...
Thank you. With your support, we are just more than a year into building an organization that is conducting strategic corporate and educational campaigns to diminish the power of the oil industry. But we need your help to keep challenging...
Unbelievable story from the New York Times from a few days ago about oil spas in Azerbaijan. According to the Times: “The petroleum spas of Naftalan in central Azerbaijan, one of the little-known but once popular vacation spots of the...
Greenland’s ice-caps may be melting at an alarming rate due to climate change, but that is not stopping the country issuing further oil and gas licenses. Twelve companies have advanced to the prequalification stage under the country’s latest licensing round....
A rare victory for people power. The Guardian has reported how the Achuar Indians from the Amazon have managed to get the Peruvian government to take notice of their plight. For decades they had been saying that their land had...
