Posts in May 2007

  • News From the (Warm) Front

    Dr. James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the nation’s leading expert on global warming, says we have less than 10 years to significantly decrease the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases we pump into the atmosphere. He made that statement last summer, the first anniversary is coming up,…
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  • Inuit: Stop Expansion of London’s 3rd Airport

    One of the most prominent members of the Inuit community is pleading for an end to the expansion of London’s third airport at Stansted. Aqqaluk Lynge will present evidence of the increasing loss of Inuit villages and hunting grounds across the Arctic and link it to Britain’s cheap flight culture. His testimony will be given…
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  • BP Secures $900m Libyan Gas Deal

    BP has secured a $900m (£455m) gas exploration deal with Libya, in a sign of Tripoli’s transformation from pariah to attractive investment destination for UK and US companies. Tony Hayward, BP’s new chief executive, described the agreement as the group’s “single biggest exploration commitment”. The deal coincides with a visit to Tripoli by Tony Blair,…
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  • Middle East Oil Firm Buys into Alberta’s Oil

    In what is being described as a startling reversal of history, a Middle Eastern energy company is pushing into the Canadian oil and gas market looking for secure supplies. Abu Dhabi National Energy Company has said it has struck a deal to buy Northrock Resources Ltd., a Calgary-based oil and gas exploration firm, for $2-billion…
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  • Pelosi Urges Bush on Climate

    US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has urged President George Bush to compromise with other G8 countries to fight climate change at the G8 summit next week. Pelosi and a bipartisan delegation of congressional leaders have just visited Greenland on a visit to see the effects of climate change at first hand. “There is…
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  • Canadian PM Backs US Climate Plan

    The Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper has been accused of “giving George Bush cover” in US effort’s to water the G8 climate change agreement. Harper has faced criticism for remaining non-committal on whether Canada would support Angela Merkel’s  post-Kyoto agreement. This lack of commitment was giving Mr. Bush the opportunity to deflect pressure from other…
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  • Naked Bike Ride Raises Climate and Oil Issues

    It’s all hotting up over the G8 Summit next week, where climate and oil will be high on the agenda. One confrontation seems to have been avoided though. In Brighton, police have finally given the go ahead for one of the rallies for World Naked Bike Ride. This year’s protest hopes to raise awareness of…
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  • Following the Green

    Sunday’s London Independent contains a fascinating little story entitled “Feelgood funding blocks eco-warriors“. Apparently the UK’s top grant giving institutions are more interested in funding conservation and species preservation, than they are in addressing systemic change to stop the root causes of those problems. Not that its news that charismatic mega-fauna equal mega bucks for…
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  • U.S. Objects to Pretty Much Everything on Climate at G8

    Greenpeace has posted a leaked copy of the Bush Administration’s comments on the draft climate change document that is being negotiated in the run-up to the G8 meeting in Germany. The document needs to be seen to be believed. The U.S. position seems to that every item of any substance whatsoever needs to be removed….
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  • Iraq to Offer 15 Blocks for Bidding

    Iraq will auction 15 oil and gas assets once the new controversial oil law is passed, a top oil ministry official has said. Fayadh Hassan Nima, the director-general at Iraq’s Oil Ministry, said ‘Iraq is preparing 15 fields and blocks for first round of auction after approval of the oil and gas law … tenders…
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