The Parliament election in Norway, Europe’s largest oil and gas producer, ended up securing support for a shift in Government, from today's Conservative-coalition government to a Labour-coalition government. Talks and negotiations are happening over the next weeks, and one of...
Yesterday, in excess of 100 people held a sit-in in the office of Governor Brown of Oregon, demanding she oppose the controversial Jordan Cove LNG plant. They sang “No LNG” and “Governor Brown, do your job”.
Affirming that “science is not negotiable” in the halls of a UN conference center and acting on that fact in one’s own policy decisions can be two different things. What counts for the climate is action to manage a rapid...
[caption id="attachment_27383" align="alignright" width="300"] Anote Tong, former president of Kiribati, and Francois Martel, Secretary General of the Pacific Island Development Forum, sign the Lofoten Declaration at COP23.[/caption] Today, Pacific Island leaders at the UN climate negotiations delivered a clear, powerful...
Although Canada’s controversial tar sands industry celebrated a small increase in production last year, this year’s forecast is looking gloomy, as investors continue to take flight over the climate risks and the relatively low oil price means that other oil...
Yesterday Australian climate activists blockaded the world's largest coal port and shut it down for several hours, leading to the arrest of 66 people. The protest managed to stop millions of tonnes of coal being exported for a whole day...
The political and economic reverberations of last week’s Canadian court of appeal judgement against the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline are continuing.
A new investigation by Oil Change International shows that the World Bank’s infrastructure program in Indonesia reads like a coal industry wish list stipulating policies and government subsidies that promote the fast-tracked development of over 40 coal projects in the...
There is a growing backlash on both sides of the Atlantic against biofuels
All conflicts are about power and who will ultimately exert control over a people and resources. That is why there is a persistent niggle about western intervention in conflicts, and whether there is a humanitarian aim, or one simply about...
