Northern Gateway Ruling Puts Tar Sands “At Risk”
The political and economic reverberations of last week’s Canadian court of appeal judgement against the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline are continuing.
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World Bank Boosts Coal in Indonesia Revealing Loopholes in New Energy Strategy
A new investigation by Oil Change International shows that the World Bank’s infrastructure program in Indonesia reads like a coal industry wish list stipulating policies and government subsidies that promote the fast-tracked development of over 40 coal projects in the...
The Biofuels Backlash
There is a growing backlash on both sides of the Atlantic against biofuels
Fuelling the Fire
All conflicts are about power and who will ultimately exert control over a people and resources. That is why there is a persistent niggle about western intervention in conflicts, and whether there is a humanitarian aim, or one simply about...
Shifting Geo-Politics not Good for the Climate
Change may only happen in small steps, but slowly and surely the geo-politics of oil are changing. The dynamics of Middle Eastern oil are in transition. Anyone who argued that the war in the Gulf was a war about oil...
If one volcano can do this, what will peak oil do?
To anyone in North America, the Icelandic volcano fiasco must seem something of a distant story, unless you are trying to fly to Europe right now, when it will be a living hell. It is a hell being experienced by...
Avatar director: Tar sands Are “Black Eye” to Canada
When faced with a PR battle, one of the fossil fuel industry’s tactics is to set up a supposed grass-roots organisation or “Astroturf” organisation. So Citizens for the Environment had no citizens in it – it was just a front...
Now for the Oil Crunch
The following article ran in the Guardian (UK) and was written by Jeremy Leggett. It is based on the publication of this report (large pdf). If eight companies across a broad spectrum of UK industry had warned, five years ago,...
Niger Delta: Eleven Dead in Gun Battle
And so it goes on. Three soldiers and eight militants were killed over the weekend in a gun battle at an oil pipeline hub operated by Shell in Nigeria's southern state of Bayelsa. Shell said the Tora manifold, which sends...
Aiding Oil, Harming the Climate
Bali, Indonesia – Oil Change International today released a new database and report that reveals over $61.3 billion in international public financing has benefited the oil and gas industry since 2000. Just last week, the European Parliament overwhelmingly passed language...