Year: 2012
Kill Bill C-45
Tomorrow there is an international call to action to support First Nations in Canada whose indigenous rights are being trampled by the Harper government’s budget Bill C-45, which was passed by on 14 December.
Iraq: Exxon Drilling Could Start Civil War
Is Iraq about to witness another war over oil?
Big Oil v Big Hollywood
The new Hollywood film about fracking, which stars Matt Damon, entitled “Promised Land” could tap into the growing grassroots rebellion against the technique which is slowly sweeping across America.
Exxon’s Dangerous Outlook
ExxonMobil presented its latest Energy Outlook report recently, the 2013 Outlook for Energy: a view to 2040. The report is chock full of figures and graphs showing an inexorable rise in global energy demand and supply and the growing market for Exxon’s products.
Texas Judge Stops KXL
In yet another victory for anti-Keystone XL protestors, a Texas Judge has ordered that TransCanada temporarily stop work on the pipeline.
Imagine There’s No Fracking
Yesterday Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon placed a full-page advert in the New York Times, calling on the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo to “Imagine There’s No Fracking… and give clean energy a chance.”
“Still barreling down the highway to a dangerously warming world”
Not much was expected of the UN’s 18th conference on climate change in Doha, Qatar, and not much was delivered.
Exxon Hates Your Children. Satire with a serious message.
Yesterday Oil Change International launched an exciting new campaign with our friends at the Other 98%. ExxonHatesYourChildren.com is a website, with a provocative TV ad embedded in it. Our intent is to raise money to put the ad on television to draw attention to the over $10 billion in annual subsidies to Big Oil, Gas … Read More
UK Set to Frack, Baby, Frack
To facilitate Britain’s “Dash for Gas”, the Chancellor George Osborne is expected to give the green light to widespread fracking across the UK and will consult on giving lucrative tax breaks to the fracking industry.