Oz Gas Industry Failing to Live up to Hype
It is a given in the oil industry that the easy oil and gas is long gone. That is why we have raging debates about exploiting unconventional oil and gas such as the tar sands in Canada and fracking of...
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Fracking: EU Warns of “High Risk” to Environment
The European Union is the latest organisation to raise serious concerns about the environmental impact of fracking. The EU has released three detailed reports to assess the risk to the environment and human health from shale gas extraction. In a...
Murder is Bad – Even in Nigeria
On Monday morning, Shell's “Grassroots Employee Empowerment Division” emailed 71,900 employees. But that division doesn't exist.
“A World of Infinite Gas”
So great is the fracking boom in the US that it has created a “world of infinite gas” according to Tony Hayward, the disgraced ex-boss of BP.
“No Dash for Gas” Ends Protest
This morning the last two protesters from the "No Dash for Gas" group occupying the chimney of a huge gas power station in the UK intend to end their protest having shut the new power station down for a week....
Eleven Donors Dump Heartland
Next week the cream of the world’s climate deniers will descend on Chicago for the Heartland Institute's latest annual sceptic-fest. The headline for the conference is “Real Science, Real Choices.” That’s more fact-twisting propaganda from Heartland that has pushed climate...
Frac-Sand Nation
It is not so long ago that “fracking” moved from a term used by the oil industry to enter the mainstream collective consciousness, as the technique spread like a cancer across America. Fracking is the process by which oil companies...
Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform Gaining Momentum Internationally
23 May 2012 Ahead of upcoming meetings in June of the G20 in Mexico and the United Nations Rio + 20 Summit, the pace of activity around worldwide efforts to phase out subsidy reform is quickening. Last weekend, the G8...
Big Oil Uses Influence to “Sway Election”
We are used to Big Oil dipping into its deep pockets to try and buy politicians. All you have to do is go on Oil Change International’s Dirty Energy Money site to explore this idea further. This said, the headline...
BP and the Attack on Academic Freedom
Two leading oceanographers who worked on the impact of BP’s devastating Deepwater Horizon oil spill have accused BP of attacking academic freedom after the oil giant successfully subpoenaed thousands of confidential emails related to their research. The two scientists, Richard...