Later today, several hundred New Yorkers, backed by at least 40 environmental organisations, are heading to attend a rally on Capitol lawn in Albany to protest against the dirty drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing or "fracking." Among the speakers will...
Ever since BP’s complex deal with Russian giant Rosneft was announced late last Friday, the list of critics to the deal has been growing. Take today’s leader in the Financial Times that calls the deal “risky, ethically vexing” and a...
[caption id="attachment_4278" align="alignleft" width="210" caption="Cartoon by Nick Anderson"][/caption] As a writer what I find interesting is the corruption of the language and the evidence by the sceptics. Yesterday I posted a blog that was based on Rolling Stone’s list of...
In May 1998, 121 unarmed youths from the 42 communities of Ilajeland in the Niger Delta decided to join the waves of protests against the oil companies sweeping the region. Whereas many of the previous protests had been against Shell,...
This is a guest blog from Munir Chalabi, an Iraqi political analyst living in the U.K. As deadline after deadline and benchmark after benchmark passes and with all the pressure imposed by the IMF, the US Administration, the US oil...
As US gasoline prices hit a near-record $3.05 a gallon, Democrats in Congress are promoting legislation taking aim at Big Oil - although industry experts say that the efforts aren't likely to have any effect at all. Sen. Charles Schumer,...
Russia seems to be toughening its position on energy sales to Europe. An adviser to President Putin said Moscow had no intention of observing guidelines in the EU's energy charter that would allow non-Russian companies access to the country's vast...
Oil Change International, frontline communities, and other partners have provided ample evidence for the need to end LNG expansion. But if we needed further evidence that permitting more US LNG export capacity is a surefire way to cook the planet,...
New Infographic! There are many reasons that the Keystone XL pipeline will clearly exacerbate the problem of climate pollution...but one that is often overlooked at our peril is the problem of petroleum coke (aka "petcoke").
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9 JANUARY 2015 In response to the Nebraska Supreme Court decision on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline route, Steve Kretzmann, Executive Director of Oil Change International released the following statement: “While the route for Keystone XL...
