Norway Examines New Arctic Drilling
Yesterday, Norway’s ruling Labour Party took a “major step” towards opening up other areas of the Arctic to oil drilling that are currently restricted from drilling
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Tar Sands Makes Climate Change “Unsolvable”
One of the world’s leading climate scientists Dr James Hansen has warned British MPs that exploiting the tar sands and oil shale would make the problem of climate change “unsolvable”.
Will We Ever Wake Up?
For the last few weeks scientists have been warning about the record sea loss in the Arctic. Last Friday, in a great piece of journalism, John Vidal, the veteran environment correspondent from the Guardian, reported from the front line of...
Two-Faced Shell Talks Clean, But Acts Dirty
The advert in the weekend edition of the Financial Times is heart-warming... from Shell?
Iraqi Oil Law
Remember when we used to talk about how the war in Iraq was about oil? Remember the banners that read "No blood for oil?" Oil has fallen out of the discussion lately, but it's time to bring it back in...
Iraqi Oil Law Poll: June-July 2007
The Iraqi Oil Law poll was carried out in June and July by KA Research, and coordinated and analyzed by Custom Strategic Research. Its key conclusion is that Iraqis oppose plans to open the country’s oilfields to foreign investment by...
TOTAL Says No to Arctic Oil Drilling
In the fight for the Arctic and the planet’s future, this is big news. We are witnessing a split in Big Oil’s attitude to the Arctic.
Saudi oil import rise exposes the lie of North American oil independence
For some time now we have been told that the ongoing North American oil boom will end US reliance on Middle Eastern oil and change America’s foreign policy dynamic with regards to 'hostile' oil producers. Nothing could be further from...
Nigeria: Shell to Pay $5 Billion Fine?
Finally after fifty years of the Nigerian government playing softly, softly with Shell, is the country about to start playing hard-ball with the oil giant? The country’s oil regulator has asked Shell to pay a whopping $5 billion fine for...
Tar sands tax loophole highlighted in two more reports
A couple months ago, Oil Change International worked with Earth Track and NRDC to expose a huge loophole that allows tar sands producers to avoid paying their fair share into the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund. Oil producers generally pay...