Interesting blog from the Canada’s Globe and Mail. Andrew Willis from the Globe looks at the recent criticism BP has gotten for investing in oil sands. Notice the dichotomy between the city investors that argue BP should invest in oil...
It’s only a snippet really, buried deep in an article by a columnist on the Edmonton Sun, but its revealing all the same. Their columnist, Graham Hicks, says that every couple of years he sits down with University of Alberta...
Climate change is "rewriting the rules for business" and sparking economic investment to the tune of billions of pounds, according to WorldWatch. According to the Worldwatch Institute's State of the World 2008 study, money is pouring into areas such as...
The row between the Kurds and Southern Iraq over is oil reserves and development of the oil industry (see yesterday’s blog) looks set to intensify. The Kurds are negotiating with two Canadian firms on a joint venture to construct an...
The scare-mongering over climate continues. Instead of seeing climate change as a business opportunity, employers and trade unions see it as a threat. The European Trade Union Confederation is warning that to 50,000 steelworkers' jobs could go if their industry...
Last week we blogged about the irony of BP’s signing a new oil sands development at the same time as Bali Climate conference. Now the Independent is having a great go too at the oil giant.The issue takes the lead...
All spin aside, you have to say this was a bad last few days for the planet. The week started off well in Oslo, but then we get the terrifying news that the Arctic might be sea ice free by...
Kenny Bruno explains why "Just Hang in there 13 more months" was the unoffiical motto of the Bali conference on climate change. Despite a last minute dramatic confrontation, the recent Climate Convention meeting in Bali, touted as "the most important...
More fall out from Bali, this time as an op-ed in the New York Times. The paper’s foreign affairs columnist, Thomas Friedman, writes: “As readers of this column know, I have a rule that there is a simple way to...
The European car industry has pledged to fight the already watered-down plans to reduce CO2 from new cars. Leading the fight will be the Germans and their powerful car industry, which is dominated by gas-guzzling cars like BMW, Porsches and...
