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Posts in May 2009

• Climate Summit Inc.

  Andy Rowell

  May22

  Probably the most important climate meeting in the run up to the main December Copenhagen conference is happening this weekend. No its not a scientific get-together, but its big business being given unprecedented access to the UN climate negotiations, in cohorts with the hosts of the December meeting, the Danish government.

• 199 Days to Stop Climate Disaster

  Andy Rowell

  May21

  With less than 200 days to go until the Copenhagen Climate talks, progress is said to be “steadily and slowly” being made. “There is a constructive atmosphere in the negotiations and I’m very encouraged,” Yvo de Boer, the head of the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change said last week. But the “slow and steady”…
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• Obama’s First Step on Fuel Standards

  Andy Rowell

  May20

  Years and years ago I sat in a meeting entitled “Talking with the Enemy” where a bunch of enviros sat down with leading corporate executives and talked about the topical issues of the day. One of the participants was the man from Volvo who talked about the company’s prototype vehicle the LCP 2000, that could,…
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• Shell: World’s Most Carbon Intensive Oil Company

  Andy Rowell

  May19

  Of all the oil majors, Shell prides itself on undertaking cutting edge energy forecasting, that not only inform the group’s thinking but also dove-tail into policy making by decision makers across the energy spectrum. It is one of the few companies to get out its crystal-ball and try and predict what the energy future will…
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• 1,000 Reported Dead in Nigeria on Eve of Shell AGM

  Andy Rowell

  May18

  Tomorrow is the Shell AGM: the show case of the company’s year. Shell will be under fire from investors over corporate pay, but its record in Nigeria should be the real reason the company is in the spotlight. In the Hague, the main venue for Shell’s main AGM, the oil company’s top brass will be…
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• Russia Warns of Oil Wars in the Arctic

  Andy Rowell

  May14

  A true addict does not know that it is addicted. It does not know when to seek help. It cannot tell when its actions move from the sublime to the ridiculous. It cannot tell it is time to wean itself off a lethal product before it self-destructs. Russia threatening war in the Arctic over oil…
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• Fossil Fuel Lobby’s $45 Million Propaganda Campaign

  Andy Rowell

  May13

  You really did not expect them to lie down and roll over without a fight did you?  Yesterday we highlighted how the sceptics were gearing up for one last push to undermine the science of climate change. Today its the turn of the oil and coal companies who are pouring millions into scuppering the Democrat’s…
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• Sunset for the Sceptics

  Andy Rowell

  May12

  In the run up to the crucial climate conference in Copenhagen, and impending legislation on CO2 in the US congress, the sceptics are planning one final fight on the science of climate change. Next month the right wing think tank, the heartland Institute, will host the “Third International Conference on Climate Change” in Washington. Make…
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• Obama Backs Bush on Bears

  Andy Rowell

  May11

  Obama may have won over the press at the weekend at the annual White House correspondents’ dinner, including poking fun at the Bush Administration, but he has angered his critics by keeping one of the Bush Administration’s policies, which he could have overturned. At the end of last week, Obama’s Interior Department announced it was…
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• Poll: US Energy Independence not possible until 2030

  Andy Rowell

  May08

  It’s not often that you ask people to look into the crystal ball and ask them if and when they can predict the demise of their industry. So the last people you should be asking about the future of energy policy  – and America’s energy independence – is probably the oil industry. Oilmen, as we…
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