The oil and gas industry likes you to think that, compared to oil, gas is a cleaner, greener alternative – a great bridging fuel between the hydrocarbon age and the renewable age.
Compared to oil, this may be so – if and it is a big if, the gas is normal conventional gas. However, as traditional [...]

For all you romantic film-buffs out there, this week-end’s Oscars is a fight between an ex-husband and wife partnership: James Cameron’s Avatar and Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt locker.
Those rooting for Avatar include a collation of 50 Indigenous and environmental groups who yesterday ran a great advert in the celebrity magazine Variety.
Called ‘Canada’s Avatar Sands,’ the [...]

Earlier in the week I blogged about how British banks were under fire for their investment in the tar sands.
But they are not the only ones. There are also home-grown banks investing in the destruction of their own country.
Yesterday, over 170 people rallied outside of the Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC’s) Annual General Shareholder meeting [...]

The headlines from BP’s Strategy presentation yesterday are all about how chief executive Tony Hayward  promised to boost annual profits by $3bn over the next two or three years.
In a frank admission, Hayward said that BP’s financial importance over the last few years had not been acceptable and had “some catching up to do.”

So seven years later it will come down to this weekend.  Whether President Obama can withdraw all American combat troops from Iraq by August will be decided by the Iraqi elections this weekend.
If the election passes off peacefully, American soldiers will probably go home on schedule. But if there is a repeat of the sectarian [...]