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Posts in November 2011

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  Keystone delayed: prepare for the industry backlash

  Lorne Stockman

  Nov10

  With Keystone XL delayed and almost certainly dead in its current form, the industry is a little upset. What we can expect to see over the next days and weeks and on into the election season is a relentless barrage of misinformation and outright attacks on the green movement, the President and anybody who shares…
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  President Obama sides with the “many over the money” by effectively rejecting Keystone XL

  Lorne Stockman

  Nov10

  This afternoon, officials at the White House and the State Department announced that they would “examine in depth alternative routes” for the Keystone XL pipeline and that this process “could be completed as early as the first quarter of 2013”. This amounts to an effective rejection of the pipeline.  During TransCanada’s third quarter results call…
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• Payback Time? The Supercommittee & Fossil Fuel Subsidies

  Elizabeth Bast

  Nov09

  The 12 members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, or “supercommittee,” have received at least $4.2 million in campaign contributions from dirty energy interests lobbying to keep their wasteful taxpayer subsidies, according to a new report from Oil Change International (OCI) and Public Campaign Action Fund (PCAF). The report analyzes the millions of…
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  “The door is closing”

  Andy Rowell

  Nov09

  We are used to dire warnings about climate change. But they do not often come from the IEA, the world’s energy watch-dog. And for such a conservative body, they do not often sound this dire. Such is our predicted catastrophic path of fossil fuel dependence, that over the next five years the last chance of…
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  Bob Dudley: “All Mouth, No Trousers”

  Andy Rowell

  Nov08

  BP seems incapable of shrugging off the curse of the Deepwater Horizon at the moment, as the company jolts from one crisis to another. A quick flick at this morning’s headlines do not make great reading for CEO Bob Dudley, after the acrimonious collapse of BP’s $7.1 billion deal to sell a majority stake in…
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  “Yes we can, stop the pipeline.”

  Andy Rowell

  Nov07

  Yesterday, over 12,000 people came from across North America and Canada to the White House to call on President Obama to stop the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline. The thousands of protesters, some carrying a long black inflatable replica of a pipeline, formed a human chain around the White House. Some chanted “Yes we can,…
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  How to buy a pipeline? Buy Congress.

  Lorne Stockman

  Nov05

  As thousands gather around the White House tomorrow to urge President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, let’s take a minute to look at some of the ways the project has garnered political support so far. Because in the end this is a political decision. A yes indicates support for Big Oil and the…
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• A Koch Keystone XL Connection?

  Steve Kretzmann

  Nov04

  Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) recently renewed his request that the House Committee on Energy and Commerce investigate the role of Koch Industries in the Keystone XL pipeline. Waxman, the ranking minority member of the committee, made his request in a letter to committee chairmen Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.). Waxman first asked for…
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  Military Wisdom: Pentagon strategy doesn’t include Canadian oil

  Lorne Stockman

  Nov02

  We have discussed a number of times on this blog how energy security cannot be attained through importing more oil from Canada or increasing domestic drilling. These false solutions give the impression something is being done to ease the burden of high oil prices on the nation but in reality make no difference. So it…
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  The Downsides of “Extreme Energy”

  Andy Rowell

  Nov02

  So its official: fracking causes earthquakes. Just minutes ago, a report published by the oil company Cuadrilla as to whether its drilling operations caused two “earthquakes” back in April and May, concluded that fracking was the “highly probable” cause of the small seismic events. Cuadrilla suspended fracking operations in June, over fears of a link…
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