South Korea and Turkey block landmark OECD deal to end fossil fuel subsidies
OECD members have failed to pass a landmark deal to end over $40 billion in public subsidies to fossil fuels.
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US to “export more natural gas than it imports”
The oil industry is a market built on the old market fundamentals of supply and demand and the flux between the two will impact how much we pay for our oil or gas.
Big Oil Sets Up Crude Export Lobby Group
The growing political fight over relaxing America’s decades-old crude export ban intensified at the end of last week, when 14 oil and gas firms set up a lobbying group specifically to push to relax the ban.
The Madness of US and EU Biofuels Policy
Sometime you just cannot make sense of the madness. In its desire to rid itself of the ravages of foreign oil addiction, the US is subsidizing domestic ethanol production. The success of this programme means that nearly four out of...
Introducing: BigOilTalkingPoints.com
Being the generous souls that we are, we thought we’d save the industry a few million dollars and create a website that can generate their requisite KXL talking points for them! We are proud to introduce: BigOilTalkingPoints.com!
KXL’s Outdated Oil Spill Technology
TransCanada has no plans to use cutting edge anti-pollution technology on the KXL, despite 12 spills on the Southern leg of the pipeline.
New Research: Japan Pours $5.2 Billion in Public Funds on Failed Carbon Capture Tech
First-ever analysis exposes how much the Japanese government subsidizes fossil fuel industry while derailing Southeast Asia’s renewable energy transition
Pacific Island leaders to the world: It’s time to talk about fossil fuel production
[caption id="attachment_27383" align="alignright" width="300"] Anote Tong, former president of Kiribati, and Francois Martel, Secretary General of the Pacific Island Development Forum, sign the Lofoten Declaration at COP23.[/caption] Today, Pacific Island leaders at the UN climate negotiations delivered a clear, powerful...
Despite still holding the COP Presidency, UK Government approves new oil field
Just weeks after hosting the COP26 summit, and despite still holding the COP Presidency, Boris Johnson’s government has given the go ahead for the Abigail oil and gas field off the east coast of Scotland.
“Life threatening” Tropical Storm Barry is “exactly a climate change story”
Is history about to repeat itself? Fourteen years after Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans and the coast of Louisiana, the region is bracing itself for Tropical Storm Barry.