Saudi Sell-off: A Step in the Wrong Direction
Why part-privatizing state oil company Aramco is a bad idea for the Saudi economy and for the global climate
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Losing friends fast: B.C. government officially opposes Kinder Morgan’s tar sands pipeline expansion
Yesterday the Government of British Columbia announced that it was officially opposing the expansion of the Kinder Morgan TransMountain tar sands pipeline. The province pointed to the company’s failure to provide enough information to satisfy all 5 of the conditions...
How low can it go? Collapsing crude in election season
In the lead up to the Canadian federal election, the economy is front and centre, but not in the way the incumbent government would have liked. The Conservatives have gone to great lengths to brand themselves as good economic managers,...
Midwest Unrest’ takes tar sands fight to Secretary Kerry’s front door
On Tuesday, I joined over 100 new and old friends as we took to the street outside Secretary Kerry’s house in Washington, DC. By the end of the day, over 20 young people had been arrested for locking down and...
The EIA’s oil forecast is a climate disaster, why does Obama use it to justify drilling?
The EIA's Reference Case forecasts show us the energy future we need to avoid for a safe climate. Yet the Obama Administration uses these forecasts as the basis for drilling in the Arctic and elsewhere on Federal Lands and the...
Lock Down: Report Preview
The end of growth in the tar sands? Oil Change International is poised to release a groundbreaking new model of the North American tar sands pipeline system. In the coming weeks, Oil Change International will publish a report based on...
High stakes – cleaning up after Harper
Canadians couldn’t have been much clearer yesterday when they hit the polls in numbers that haven’t been see for decades: The Harper era is history after some ten years of Conservative rule led by outgoing Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. Elected...
Lockdown: the end of growth in the tar sands
Just a few days ago, Hurricane Patricia became the strongest hurricane ever measured as it made landfall on the western coast of Mexico. It hit as we approach the end of another year that is expected to break last year’s...
Shell Stops Tar Sands Mine; Cites “Lack of Infrastructure”
Yesterday, after months of painstaking work, Oil Change International launched a report entitled “Lockdown – the end of growth of the tar sands”.
Shell project cancellation confirms our latest report findings
Last week, we released a report entitled, Lockdown: the end of growth in the tar sands. The report, based on our unique Integrated North American Pipelines model (INAP), concludes that the tar sands sector is running out of room for...