Will there be one event that finally galvanizes international action on climate change? Something so shocking that it becomes a tipping point for politicians to finally take this issue seriously. It did not happen after Hurricane Katrina. Nor did it...
This is one of those stories that although you should be outraged about it, you re not surprised at all about it, because you suspected it all along. On the day that five foreign oil companies get their grubby hands...
We have said it before and we will say it again. Once an oilman always an oilman. You can’t get crude out from your veins. Yesterday, in a sop to his oil industry buddies, George W. Bush lifted an executive...
Another day, another court room battle concerning big oil. This time its oil sands in the dock. Imperial Oil's (majority owned by Exxon) fight to win the right to drain muskeg at an oil sands project begins today in an...
Democrats in the US Senate yesterday called for a temporary special tax on oil companies’ profits and a rollback of $17 billion in oil industry tax breaks as part of an energy package. The proposed 25 percent profits tax would...
Two of the leading climate sceptic organisations are in real trouble over misrepresenting the views of climate scientists. Back in September last year, Dennis Avery from the right-wing Hudson Institute, wrote an article claiming that 500 scientists backed the theory...
The United States declared the polar bear a threatened species yesterday; saying the dramatic reduction in sea ice caused by global warming has put it in imminent danger of extinction. Although this was the first time the US Endangered Species...
Global temperature rises should be kept well below the European Union's target of 2 degrees Celsius to avoid costly damage to people and their lifestyles, according to a new European Parliament report. European consumers must be given better information about...
As energy prices rise on a daily basis, anything becomes possible. First unconventional heavy oils from tar sands to oil shales have become economical, now it’s the turn of “unconventional gas”. Just as we blogged that natural gas supplies are...
The US Senate has started a raucous debate over climate change legislation even though it will put supporters of the bill, including all three presidential candidates, on the spot — essentially forcing them to come out in favor of high...
