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Miliband: We Should Focus on Costs of Middle East Oil

The UK Environment Secretary David Miliband has said that dealing with climate change does not only help the environment but bring a "peace dividend" because the world's "oil dependence creates real danger". Mr Miliband said it was "right" for a...

The Real Climate Swindle

Oh dear, Channel Four’s reputation is now in freefall after more revelations on its supposedly ground-breaking programme, β€œThe Great Global Warming Swindle.” On Monday we blogged how Carl Wunsch, who had been interviewed for the programme, now complained that β€œI...

Sinopec Seals US$3.5b Refinery Contract

China Petroleum & Chemical Corp - better known as Sinopec – has signed a $3.5 billion contract with Saudi Aramco and Exxon Mobil for a refinery in southern China's Fujian province. The refinery in Quanzhou will have a crude refining...

New Oil Finds in Sunni Iraq

Although huge petroleum deposits have long been known in Iraq's Kurdish north and Shiite south, Iraq has substantially increased its estimates of the amount of oil and natural gas in deposits on Sunni lands, especially in Anbar province. Iraq has...

Meanwhile Eighteen Years OnÒ€¦

Just as Exxon Mobil posted the largest annual profits by an American company of just under $40 billion, the dark side of oil was exposed again. Eighteen years on, a new study by US government scientists has found that crude...

Big Oil Sees New “Gold Rush” In the Melting Arctic

There is something of the ironic here. At the same time as scientists are meeting in Paris to put their final touches to the latest IPCC a report (which is warning over accelerated warming and melting), experts are meeting in...

Environmental Disaster Off Devon Coast

Thousands of blackened and oiled sea-birds have been recovered from the sea and coasts surrounding the stricken container ship, MSC Napoli, which is beached off the Devon coast in South West England. Some 200 tonnes of oil has formed a...

Canadian Ice Shelf sets sail

Scientists studying satellite imagery from the Canadian Arctic have just discovered that the Ayles Ice Shelf broke free of Ellesmere Island sixteen months ago. In an AP story running widely this morning, Warwick Vincent of Laval University said: "This is...

Brown Bears Stop Hibernating

Bears in the mountains of northern Spain have stopped hibernating, scientists have revealed in what may be one of the strongest signals yet of how much climate change is affecting the natural world. Bears are supposed to slumber throughout the...

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