BP’s “Sunken Cities” Exhibition is “Beyond Parody”
Oh dear, BP. Last week was a lesson in how corporate sponsorship of the arts backfires badly.
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A Living Memorial for Deadened Memories
Nigerian activist Nnimmi Bassey on the state's efforts to crush memory of the struggle against Shell
How low can it go? Collapsing crude in election season
In the lead up to the Canadian federal election, the economy is front and centre, but not in the way the incumbent government would have liked. The Conservatives have gone to great lengths to brand themselves as good economic managers,...
New Warnings Over Tar Sands Water Use
The issue of water is slowly creeping up the political and media agenda in Canada. After last Thursday’s televised leaders' debate being held in the run up to next month’s general election, one columnist for the influential Globe and Mail...
Thousands Join Tar Sands Resistance March
It was billed as the biggest anti-tar sands march the American Midwest has ever seen. And they came in their thousands to St. Paul in Minnesota on Saturday.
Newsletter: Counter Trends: Is an Oil Production Decline Imminent, or Will Tax Breaks Trigger a Renewed Surge?
Crude oil prices remained low and unstable over the past month, causing U.S. oil producers to continue to idle drilling rigs (Figure 1). [1] In light of these trends, the EIA released data suggesting a production decline in some shale...
New Evidence BP’s Spill Dispersant Caused Harm to Humans and Wildlife
In the desperately dark days following BP’s Deepwater Horizon accident in April 2010, one of the issues that I highlighted on this blog was the dangers of BP’s chemical Corexit, which the oil giant was using to disperse the oil.
OPEC Wants to “Crush US Shale”
Just how low can the oil price go? What was unthinkable even a few months ago is now becoming distinctly probable, even likely. As analysts dissect the ramifications for the oil industry of $40 dollar barrel, oil traders are now...
Industry agrees: Keystone not just political
The tar sands industry lists market access as the number one threat to its future in a recent industry survey.
Ghost of Brent Spar Haunts Shell
Twenty years ago the oil giant Shell was embroiled in two separate controversies, which still haunt the company to this day.