Only a few months ago, we reported on the release of the IEA’s World Energy Outlook, which for the first time ever acknowledged that we cannot burn at least two thirds of the fossil fuel reserves we currently classify as...
Yesterday, the growing anti-KXL campaign received a boost from what some may see as an unexpected quarter: National Nurses United announced it was now opposed to the pipeline.
Bold leadership on climate by Obama and Kerry means both saying no to KXL and tightened emission standards for power stations.
Representatives that signed the latest pro-Keystone XL letter received roughly 250% more money from oil and gas interests compared to those Representatives who did not sign the letter.
A report from HSBC suggests BP, Shell and Norway’s Statoil could lose some 40 and 60 per cent of their market value if “unburnable carbon” scenarios are put in place.
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,...
These are not the words of a President talking about our addiction to oil, but an eleven year old fighting for our future. Obama’s second term inauguration speech yesterday made global headlines. But an eleven year old’s warning against the...
Yesterday Barack Obama was officially sworn in for his second term as US president in a small ceremony at the White House, which has to happen on the 20 January. Today there is the official ceremony in Washington with all...
Existing analyses of the impacts of tar sands fail to account for a byproduct of the process that is a major source of climate change causing carbon emissions: petroleum coke - known as petcoke. Petcoke is the coal hiding in...
Increasing petcoke use is a clear result of the increasing production of tar sands bitumen. Petcoke is a seldom discussed yet highly important aspect of the full impacts of tar sands production. Factored into the equation, petcoke puts another strong...
