BP’s Oil “Entered Food Chain”
At the height of the Deepwater disaster, then CEO of BP, Tony Hayward said it was only a drop in the ocean, so not to worry. BP’s scientists and cronies were quick to argue that the vast majority of the...
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New EPA Regs Address Fracking…in 2015
Some good news: The Environmental Protection Agency issued important rules to address air pollution from natural gas drilling, primarily fracking. Less good news: Bending to pressure from Big Oil, the measures won’t go into effect until 2015. The regulations will...
Scientific Study Warns Fracking Can Contaminate Aquifers
Sorry to hark on about this – but proponents of fracking keep on saying it is a precise science that is safe, which will not contaminate water supplies. But we know that is not true. We also know the technique...
Senator Rob Portman: “Everything on the Table”?
Written by Ross Hammond With a little over a week before the Supercommittee must make its recommendations, all eyes are turning to the Republicans on the Committee to see whether one of them will break from Republican orthodoxy and support...
Pat Toomey: Drill-Baby-Drill, Even in Lake Erie
Written by Ross Hammond Residents of Cleveland and Buffalo (where I grew up) might be forgiven if they were not terribly excited about the prospect of having oil rigs off the shores of their fair cities. But according to Supercommittee...
Shale Gas “Will Wreck Climate Commitments”
Further to my blog earlier in the week criticising the Financial Times’ new “let’s happily drill the land of plenty” philosophy to oil shale and gas, of course there is downside to these new found reserves of oil. The big...
“Dirty” Canada Dumps Kyoto Protocol
Finally the pretence is over. For years Canada said it cared about climate change at the same time as developing one of the most dirty fuels on the planet, the tar sands. But we knew it was a lie. For...
British LNG Imports at Risk in Gulf Crisis
More on the growing Iranian crisis. Brent crude is rising this morning due to worries over serious disruptions to the supply of crude after Iran warned its Arab neighbours of “consequences” if they raised oil output to replace Iranian loses...
Time to Come Clean, Lord Lawson
At the end of last week, the British government launched its long awaited consultation on its proposed regulations of lobbyists. The commitment to introduce a statutory register of lobbyists was made in the Coalition agreement in May 2010 between the...
It’s Time for Reform: Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Rich Nations are Staggering
Finally a new report, released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OCED), begins to quantify how much rich nations—and taxpayers—are supporting fossil-fuel production and consumption. The numbers are staggering. During each of the last five years, between US$...