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Posts in January 2010

• “Shock waves of anxiety” over Shell’s tar sands move

  Lorne Stockman

  Jan27

  Remarks made by Shell CEO, Peter Voser to the Financial Times Energy Editor that his company has “clearly scaled down” its plans for a massive expansion of tar sands production should send waves of anxiety through the Canadian oil industry and a serious rethink among energy security hawks in Washington. Since the middle of last…
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• Climate Change “could be left out” of Obama’s Speech

  Andy Rowell

  Jan27

  Predicting political speeches is always fraught with difficulty, but there have been enough leaks to suggest that Barack Obama’s State of Union address will  scale back his ambitious plans on both health-care as well as climate change. Instead the President will focus on the economy and helping recession-hit families. Although the White House has denied…
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• A Quarter of US Grain Goes to Biofuels

  Andy Rowell

  Jan26

  A shocking new analysis by the respected Earth Policy Institute has revealed that over a quarter of the total US grain crop was turned into ethanol to fuel cars last year. The figure has tripled since 2004. Because the US is by far the largest grain exporter, the fact that it is feeding an increasing…
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• Shell’s “Strategic Shift” Away From Tar Sands

  Andy Rowell

  Jan25

  For a company that prides itself on long-term planning, Shell sometimes seems to be a company that could not plan its way out of a paper bag. Just over a decade ago it made a big song and dance about moving into renewables, only to beat a humiliating retreat a decade later. For the last…
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• Prominent Oil Critic Forced from University in Alaska

  Andy Rowell

  Jan22

  There is something about Alaska that attracts a special kind of person. Many people move or live there for its rugged landscape and spectacular wildlife. They have America’s last true wilderness on their doorstep. But this land of natural beauty has become tarnished, intoxicated and corrupted by oil. It takes an extraordinary person to stand…
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• Groups Fight “Irresponsible Shell” in the Arctic

  Andy Rowell

  Jan21

  The Chukchi Sea stand-off between environmental and Alaska Native groups and Shell has taken another twist, with a new legal action to stop the oil company’s plans to drill in the region next summer. Yesterday’s challenge was filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals a group of Native Americans and environmental organisations including the…
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• One Year On…

  Andy Rowell

  Jan20

  One year on and its not looking so good for Obama. How the political land-scape can change in a year.. The Democrats are in deep political shock this morning as a truck-driving lawyer, Scott Brown took the prized seat of Massachusetts. Scott Brown’s previous greatest claim to fame was winning Cosmopolitan’s America’s Sexiest Man competition…
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• 21 years later oil still pollutes Prince William Sound

  Andy Rowell

  Jan19

  For those of you who have not seen the film the Age of Stupid, Pete Postlethwaite, puts in a great performance as a despairing  archivist wondering how we allowed the world to be ravaged by climate change. You could imagine Pete putting in a similar performance as an archivist looking back at how the oil…
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• A green oil industry: a contradiction in terms..

  Andy Rowell

  Jan18

  No one would like to consider their job to be an oxymoron, essentially a contradiction in terms. But that is what you could describe the job title for the editor of a new online magazine called “Greening of oil magazine”. The new mag says it will be dedicated to “tracking energy’s environmental footprint”, but you…
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• A Message from the Warmists…

  Andy Rowell

  Jan14

  As a writer what I find interesting is the corruption of the language and the evidence by the sceptics. Yesterday I posted a blog that was based on Rolling Stone’s list of the people they believe are doing to the most to undermine the international and US domestic effort on climate change. Obviously the post…
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