Chad has become the latest country to expel foreign companies operating in its country, after the country’s president kicked energy giants Chevron and Petronas, out of a World Bank-backed project. Ironically, Chad-Cameroon pipeline project was meant to serve as a...
Exxon is still spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund both European and American organisations that seek to cast doubt on the scientific consensus on global warming, according to a new report by Corporate Europe Observatory, a Brussels-based watchdog....
At last some good news: A major new educational initiative on climate change has been launched on the Net. Called “Focus the Nation” it will involve over 1000 universities, colleges and high schools in the US in a simultaneous one-day...
Something strange is happening. Have you noticed it? The gas price is falling. The news that the price of crude oil dipped below $60 dollars has sparked a furious response as to why it is happening. Some are arguing that...
Its 100F in California and it could well be over 100 degrees in London today. As we all wilt in the heat, everyone is asking is this climate change? The Independent in its front page thinks so. “Temperature set to...
File under truly absurd: two American symbols of supersize, McDonalds and Hummer, have hooked up to inflate their profits and your kids' waist lines. McD's is giving away toy Hummers with Kids Meals for the rest of the month. Have...
New research has found that Andean glaciers are melting so fast that some are expected to disappear within 15-25 years, denying major cities water supplies and putting populations and food supplies at risk in Colombia, Peru, Chile, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina...
The politics of oil is once again creeping up the political and public agenda in the US. Over the last month a dozen potential presidential candidates have toured the state of Iowa, with most pledging their support for the biofuel...
As Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, premiers at the Cannes film festival, the Exxon-funded climate sceptics are crawling out to attack him. One of those is Myron Ebell, the arch-fossil fuel advocate from the Exxon-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute, the...
As Big Oil comes under attack for high gas prices, “price gouging”, record profits and huge pay-outs to executives, it is spending millions on advertising to win over a skeptical public. They have also increased their lobbying efforts in Washington...
