Interesting story from the Globe and Mail about new techniques being used to exploit Alberta’s oil sands which offer a “potential sea change in how Canadian companies wring energy from the ground.” Most companies have traditionally pumped steam into their...
As you might expect this week’s blog is going to focus heavily on the G8. We will have reports from Graham at the G8, (see his first one here) as well as all the main news stories relating to climate...
A coalition of relief and development agencies like Christian Aid and Tearfund will warn 600 delegates to the ‘UN 3rd World Conference on Disaster Reduction’ in Geneva today of the dangers of climate change. The agencies will warn delegates that...
The Blair government is heading for political trouble after refusing to accept annual carbon dioxide reduction targets. Instead the government is set to introduce five-yearly targets in the Climate Change Bill to be announced in the Queen's Speech today. Ministers...
Whilst Britain belatedly introduces a watered-down Climate Bill and other countries tinker and talk about Climate Change, low-lying South Pacific nations such as Kiribati are literally sinking beneath the waves. Kiribati is an archipelago of 33 coral atolls barely 6ft...
OK, I don’t really love expensive gasoline. A better title would be “I Hate Cheap Gasoline.” Illogical? Perhaps, but not compared to the hysterical and incoherent reaction of some of my fellow Americans, both politicians and average citizens, to $3...
The WSJ reports that ExxonMobil is the key funder of a front group called Public Interest Watch which has been pushing the IRS to audit Greenpeace. Greenpeace says an IRS auditor told it that the PIW letter triggered the audit....
Stop complaining about high gas prices – you have it cheap – that is the message from the oil barons to the American public. In parts of Europe, gas prices are $5 per gallon to $7 per gallon, the chairman...
Reports in the Nigerian press suggest twelve chiefs from the Kula community in Rivers State were killed earlier this month, bringing the death-toll in the area to twenty five in oil-related violence. The Vanguard newspaper reports that the Kula Chiefs...
President Hugo Chávez has scored a significant victory over Exxon Mobil when a British court lifted a $12bn freeze on Venezuelan assets and sided with his administration against the oil giant. The ruling backed Venezuela's government in a row with...
