[caption id="attachment_23204" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo: Alex Doukas[/caption] “Cigarettes are good for you.” The tobacco industry successfully peddled this myth for decades. Today, nobody would believe them, and the boldness of the lie seems staggering in retrospect. But Japan, under the...
The renewable revolution is gathering apace according to new research. Last year was an “extraordinary” record year for the sector, with “the largest global capacity additions seen to date.”
The safety of crude by rail trains looks set to rocket up the political agenda again after a Union Pacific train carrying volatile Bakken crude derailed and exploded in Oregon's beautiful Columbia River gorge on Friday.
Just as the political opposition to crude by rail trains is growing in the US over the latest crash along the Colombia River Gorge, so is the public opposition.
[caption id="attachment_23425" align="alignright" width="300"] The clock starts now: we must end subsidies to oil, gas, and coal by 2020.[/caption] This week, the leaders of Mexico, Canada, and the United States met in Ottawa for the North American Leaders’ Summit. In...
According to a new analysis the US now holds more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia and Russia, the first time this has happened. The crux though will be whether the US shale industry can access the finance to carry on...
One of the last arguments used to by climate sceptics to try and argue that global warming is not happening has just been debunked by a new scientific study.
As the US shale industry comes under increasing scrutiny for its environmental and health impact, it has emerged that the US has secretly approved fracking offshore leading to billions of gallons of waste-water to be dumped at sea.
Last week, the British Prime Minster, David Cameron, flew to Aberdeen, the oil capital of the UK to announce £250 million emergency funding to “prop up the North Sea oil industry”; which is reeling badly from the low oil price.
Nigerian activist Nnimmi Bassey on the state's efforts to crush memory of the struggle against Shell
