South Korea and Turkey block landmark OECD deal to end fossil fuel subsidies
OECD members have failed to pass a landmark deal to end over $40 billion in public subsidies to fossil fuels.
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Wrong Side of the Tracks: Why Rail is not the Answer to the Tar Sands Market Access Problem
This report examines the development of bitumen-by-rail at a time when its growth is expected to take a substantial leap. How much bitumen is actually moving by rail in 2014? What is the capacity of loading and unloading terminals that are realistically positioned...
#FreeDonziger: 900 days under house arrest for fighting Big Oil’s dirty pollution in Ecuador
Embedded into the story of the struggle against Big Oil in Ecuador is the American lawyer: Steven Donziger. His story adds another layer of torrid injustice in the fight to hold Big Oil accountable. His story needs to be told.
Oil Market Facts Expose Trump’s Empty Keystone Rhetoric
A look at today's oil market exposes the hollow rhetoric surrounding the Keystone XL project. The project would exacerbate a supply glut at Cushing and is clearly not needed.
Ghost of Exxon Valdez Haunts Shell in the Arctic
There are many contradictions about Shell’s Arctic misadventure to drill for oil, but three are the most striking: Firstly the company is spending billions of dollars and risking the reputation of the company on oil that can never be burnt.
API Scaremongers Over Jobs
The good old American Petroleum Institute is up to its old tricks again, scaremongering over jobs. The API held “citizen” rallies in seven cities in early September to discuss the effect of energy legislation on jobs, arguing that many jobs...
Big oil’s race to the bottom is underway and tar sands producers have a head start
[caption id="attachment_4356" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="WTI Meltdown on Friday Feb. 05 2010"][/caption] Two stories from Canada’s Globe and Mail this week highlight the emerging reality that the oil industry in North America is downsizing; although the commentary mostly misses the underlying...
Behind the Barrel: New Insights into the Countries and Companies Behind Israel’s Fuel Supply
This updated analysis highlights the ongoing complicity of multiple countries and companies in fueling Israel's war machine. As more and more Palestinians are killed in bombings and pressure intensifies on global leaders, including US presidential candidates, to end the genocide,...
Keystone XL benefits from taxpayer subsidies
Sen. Mitch McConnell claimed recently that the Keystone XL Pipeline “doesn’t require a penny of our taxpayer money all the president has to do is approve it.” But our research reveals many places that the pipeline project benefits from taxpayer...
Tar Sands: The Myth of Tidewater Access
The idea that greater pipeline capacity and access to tidewater would maximize the value Alberta receives for its tar sands crude is a standard talking point for industry, politicians, and other commentators in the ongoing oil price-induced recession in Alberta.