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EU Commissioner Calls for End to Subsidies

Connie Hedegaard, the outspoken EU Commissioner for Climate Action, has lent her weight to the growing calls for ending fossil fuel subsidies. Earlier in the week, Oil Change International revealed that fossil fuel subsidies could be as high a $1...

A Wind Turbine for the Turbine Hall

Sometimes the best things in life are so simple. What better way to protest against the sponsorship of the arts by Big Oil than to undertake your own protest art installation? And what is more fitting than a real wind...

BP Settlement “doesn’t benefit my clients”

The saying in the city is that the markets do not lie. And after Friday’s late night deal to reach a settlement with plaintiffs for a reported $7.8 billion, shares this morning in BP are topping the FTSE 100. The...

“Desperate” Shell Goes to Court Over Arctic Drilling

Last week I blogged on the landmark legal case against Shell by Nigerians that was being heard in the Supreme Court. That’s not the only court-room Shell was in last week. In an extraordinary preemptive legal strike the oil giant...

North Dakota’s oil boom from space

It has been mentioned often that the mining of tar sands in Alberta, Canada can be seen from space. Recent composite images from the Air Force's Meteorological Satellite, brought to our attention by the great work at Skytruth.org, show another new form of North American...

IEA’s “golden rules for the golden age of gas”

The respected chief economist of the IEA, Fatih Birol, has warned that the world will become increasingly reliant on shale gas and oil from Iraq in the coming decades. In part to help stave off the growing public backlash against shale...

BP’s Oil “Entered Food Chain”

At the height of the Deepwater disaster, then CEO of BP, Tony Hayward said it was only a drop in the ocean, so not to worry. BP’s scientists and cronies were quick to argue that the vast majority of the...

New EPA Regs Address Fracking…in 2015

Some good news: The Environmental Protection Agency issued important rules to address air pollution from natural gas drilling, primarily fracking. Less good news: Bending to pressure from Big Oil, the measures won’t go into effect until 2015. The regulations will...

Scientific Study Warns Fracking Can Contaminate Aquifers

Sorry to hark on about this – but proponents of fracking keep on saying it is a precise science that is safe, which will not contaminate water supplies. But we know that is not true. We also know the technique...

Senator Rob Portman: “Everything on the Table”?

Written by Ross Hammond With a little over a week before the Supercommittee must make its recommendations, all eyes are turning to the Republicans on the Committee to see whether one of them will break from Republican orthodoxy and support...