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Posts in March 2006

• Bush Remarks on Oil Addiction Are Tipping Point for Renewable Energy

  Andy Rowell

  Mar31

  Interesting article from today’s Independent about how Bush’s remarks on oil addicition have boosted the renewable energy sector. So maybe he did some good after all. “When President George Bush talked about the US being ‘addicted to oil’ this year, even the hardest-nosed investors took notice”, ran the paper.

• Exxon No Longer Welcome in Venezuela

  Andy Rowell

  Mar31

  It looks like Exxon is about to be booted out of Venezuela, the fifth largest oil-exporting nation. On Wednesday, Venezuela’s oil minister said that Exxon was no longer welcome.

• What Do you Call a Glacier Park With No Glaciers?

  Andy Rowell

  Mar31

  Metro, the free newspaper for commuters in London, is running a competition to find the new name for the Glacier National Park in the US.

• Once A Dinosaur Always A Dinosaur

  Andy Rowell

  Mar31

  Is Exxon changing its stance on climate change under new chairman Rex Tillerson? That is the question posed yesterday by the New York Times. “If Rex W. Tillerson has his way, Exxon Mobil will no longer be the oil company that environmentalists love to hate … Mr. Tillerson has gone out of his way to…
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• More Comments in the Great Debate on Climate

  Andy Rowell

  Mar30

  More insightful comments from readers in today’s Independent: “The scientific background to the climate change debate is rather frightening, so that those with knowledge and power are stunned by the problems ahead. If they are not addressed, I foresee the breakdown of civilisation as we know it”.

• Truth in Advertising

  Steve Kretzmann

  Mar29

  Check this out. Apparently Chevy is running an online contest to design a new ad – and hasn’t gotten around to censoring the entries yet… UPDATE: 3:15 eastern. The Ministry of Memory at Chevy has apparently swung into gear, and the video’s gone now. It was a hilarious ad for an SUV with some pointed…
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• Feeling Peckish? How Your Breakfast Fuels Our Oil Addiction

  Andy Rowell

  Mar29

  Great article on Alternet today by Chad Heeter about the amount of fossil fuels needed to make your average breakfast. According to Heeter “an average of over seven calories of fossil fuel is burned up for every calorie of energy we get from our food. This means that in eating my 400 calorie breakfast, I…
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• BP and DuPont Are Top in First-Ever Ranking of Companies on Climate Change

  Andy Rowell

  Mar29

  In the first ever ranking of the Top 100 companies, BP and DuPont have come out as top “leaders” for their climate change strategies. Not surprisingly ExxonMobil is seen as a “laggard”.

• Blair’s “Toothless Sop” to Bush On Climate

  Andy Rowell

  Mar29

  Tony Blair has been accused of caving in to American pressure by proposing a new “watered-down” replacement for the Kyoto Protocol that relies on new technology rather than binding emission cuts as the solution to climate change.

• Climate Change – Have Your Say

  Andy Rowell

  Mar29

  Yesterday, The Independent newspaper in the UK did something rather amazing – it asked it’s readers for their views. Rather than giving readers the usual dose of opinion from the great and the good, the paper asked for the opinion of its readers. And they asked it on the most pressing issue of all: Climate…
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