First Tar Sands Tanker to Arrive in EU Next Week
You will not have heard of the Aleksey Kosygin, but next week this obscure sounding tanker is set to make history as it becomes the first major shipment of Canadian tar sands to arrive in Europe.
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Pro-Keystone XL Letter Dripping in Fossil Fuel Money
In the ongoing saga that is the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, it’s clear that supporters of the dangerous project are getting anxious. Perhaps they’re seeing the writing on the wall that this project is nowhere near a sure thing,...
Activists Take to the Trees to Stop KXL
Yesterday morning eight young activists put their lives on the line in the fight against climate change.
East Coast refinery shut downs are a symptom of the tar sands oil rush
…in the long term, what the industry has affected is not increased security via Canadian oil to the gulf coast, but a concentration of the nation’s refining capacity in the heart of the nation’s hurricane corridor. The lessons of 2005...
New KXL Route “Within Weeks”
And so the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline goes on. TransCanada plans to refile its application with the U.S. government in the next few weeks, according to Alex Pourbaix, the company's president of oil and pipelines. The new alternative...
Canada’s “Pipeline Through Paradise”
One of the biggest problems for proponents of the tar sands (apart from frying the climate and polluting the local rivers and ripping up ancient boreal forests) is getting the dirty oil to hungry markets. The route south from Alberta...
Oil Change International responds to PM Trudeau visit with President Trump
We know that Justin and Barack had a budding bromance, which came to an abrupt end when Trump took office. Like any friend would say to someone getting over a break-up, our message to Justin is: Don't let Donald be...
New Report: Indigenous Resistance Disrupts Billions of Tons of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Annually
The new report shows that Indigenous communities resisting the more than 20 fossil fuel projects analyzed have stopped or delayed greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least 25 percent of annual U.S. and Canadian emissions.
IEA confirms energy crisis is fossil fuel crisis and forecasts peak in gas
The International Energy Agency (IEA) released its 2022 World Energy Outlook (WEO), underscoring that accelerating investment in clean energy and efficiency, not new fossil fuels, is the answer to both climate and energy security crises. In a marked shift for...
Big Oil & API spending millions on Facebook & Instagram to misleadingly spin “gas is green”
A great joint investigation by Channel 4 news in the UK and InfluenceMap has found that oil industry lobbyists are using social media such as Facebook and Instagram to promote the continued use of gas and the myth that gas...