Judge Tells Delta 5 “You are Part of the Solution”
Well we will have to wait for another day and another trial for an American jury to rule on the “necessity defence” for direct action to prevent climate change.
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Another oil train wreck exposes need for moratorium
Just days after inadequate new safety rules from PHMSA, yet another oil train accident shows that we must stop these dangerous trains now.
State of Emergency in West Virginia After Latest Crude by Rail Disaster
A state of emergency was declared late yesterday in two counties in the south of West Virginia after a crude by rail train oil derailed and exploded, in what is the latest in a long string of accidents in North...
Bank of America: $50 A Barrel on Its Way
The US shale industry faces a Darwinian struggle over the next few months as only the fittest producers will survive as the price of crude plunges to $50 a barrel, the Bank of America has warned.
Oil “Glut” Signals Trouble for Shale and Tar Sands
There has been a huge amount written over the last few days about the plummeting oil price. One British newspaper is warning of an “oil war” as the price of Brent crude “tanks” on the back of oversupply in the...
US “Not Immune” to Oil Price Hike
As war rages in Iraq, and oil and gasoline prices rise, the impotence of the US oil boom is exposed.
Scientific Evidence Against Fracking is Not “Irrational”
The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, yesterday dismissed critics of fracking as “irrational”, arguing that their opposition is based on a “religious” hostility to fossil fuels.
“We came within a hair’s breadth of a calamity”
And on it goes. One accident after another. But this time a major disaster was averted by a whisker. On Monday a freight train, which was carrying fracked and highly flammable shale oil from North Dakota, derailed on a bridge...
Toxic and Tax Exempt
Toxic and tax exempt: How tar sands spills from Michigan to Arkansas cost us all. As the Obama Administration continues to ponder a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, TransCanada has been assuring everyone of it’s safety. “Safety of the...
Tar Sands: “No Safe Way to Market”
The top brass of BP and Shell will have not been amused this morning when they opened their Financial Times to see a half page advert staring at them about the ecological cost of the tar sands. The advert, entitled:...