You really didn’t think that the oil industry would just roll over and give up without a fight on the US Waxman-Markey Climate Bill did you? Just a couple of days ago I blogged about how many people had lobbied...
As the oil price continues to delay development in the controversial and dirty oil sands, two Canadian oil companies have responded by consolidating their operations and merging. When Suncor Energy and Petro-Canada announced earlier this week that they were to...
Only last Thursday, the boss of oil company Shell Jeroen van der Veer suggested that the oil giant was interested in joining forces with China on a number of oil projects in Iraq. "We are in the process of forming...
Yesterday a campaign was launched, called ShellGuilty. It is intended to stop Shell’s on-going gas flaring in the Niger Delta and to campaign for justice for the Ogoni people. The campaign highlights many of the issues that will come to...
Millions of people the world over will be inspired by your victory last night. After the deep divisive years of the Bush Administration the thought of change coming to America is not a day too soon. I know you are...
As the price of oil plummets below $50 a barrel, the price of gasoline falls too. The high oil prices and record gas prices of the summer now seem years away. As we fill up our cars, the temptation will...
Stunned. Outraged. Bewildered. Sickened. Saddened. Hurt. These are just some of responses in Alaska to the news that the US Supreme Court had slashed punitive damages against Exxon for the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill from $2.5 billion to $500 million....
This is one of those stories that although you should be outraged about it, you re not surprised at all about it, because you suspected it all along. On the day that five foreign oil companies get their grubby hands...
The day before the Exxon Valdez case makes it to the Supreme Court, Exxon is in court again, this time in a federal court in San Francisco. Exxon, BP and seven oil companies are all being sued by a tiny...
Oil Change International is urging the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to force oil companies to disclose reserves drawn from polluting oil sands, due to their above-average lifecycle emissions of greenhouse gases The SEC is considering to allow companies to...
