Bush Lifts US Oil Exploration Ban
We have said it before and we will say it again. Once an oilman always an oilman. You can’t get crude out from your veins. Yesterday, in a sop to his oil industry buddies, George W. Bush lifted an executive...
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Democrats call for Investigation into Iraq Oil Deals
Four Democratic senators, including Senator Carl Levin have called on the State Department's inspector general to investigate whether the agency encouraged lucrative oil deals between Iraq and several Western companies. Any back-room meddling would violate US administration policy, which was...
Oil Sands Project Suffers Setback
Imperial Oil, Canada's largest oil company, has lost a legal bid to overturn a federal regulatory decision that could delay the planned C$8 billion oil-sands project in Alberta. The Federal Court ruled that the government acted properly to cancel a...
Iraq “Has Largest Oil Reserves”
As the world rapidly runs out of oil, one place seems to be swimming in the stuff, and no prizes for guessing who that is … Iraq has dramatically increased the official size of its oil reserves after new data...
UK Fire: Total “To Admit to Negligence”
One of the world’s largest oil companies will admit in court today that Britain’s biggest peacetime explosion was the result of negligence, according to the Times newspaper. In a statement to the newspaper, Total UK confirmed that it had advised...
Bay Area Regulators Approve Global Warming Fees
Air pollution regulators in the Bay area have voted overwhelmingly to approve new rules that impose fees on businesses for emitting greenhouse gasses. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District's board of directors voted 15-1 to charge companies 4.4 cents...
Senator Quizzes Regulator on Speculators
So are speculators pushing the oil price up, and if so by how much? A leading American senator yesterday pressed the top futures market regulator for more information about speculation by big investment funds in crude oil futures. Commodity Futures...
Bolivia Seizes Control of Gas Pipeline
The Bolivian government has taken full control of a key gas pipeline company after talks with the foreign firm that held a controlling stake broke down. It is the latest move in the Bolivian president's recent effort to nationalise key...
Don’t Buy It! Tar Sands Oil Still Dirty
Deputy Premier of Alberta Ron Stevens is in Washington this week, meeting with Bush Administration officials and members of Congress to promote the importation of dirty tar sands oil to the United States. Oil Change and our coalition partners took...
UN: Fish Stocks Could Collapse
Major commercial fish stocks around the world could collapse within decades as global warming compounds damage from pollution and overfishing, according to the UN. "You overlay all of this and you are potentially putting a death nail in the coffin...