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BP refinery rollover shows tar sands refineries need to clean up
Lorne Stockman
May24
It’s taken four years and millions of dollars in lawyers for BP to finally agree to do what it should have done in the first place at its Whiting, Indiana refinery. The refinery has been constructing new equipment to enable it to switch to 100% tar sands heavy oil processing, a $3.6 billion investment. But…
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TransCanada clings to Keystone myths
Lorne Stockman
May23
Yesterday we co-published a report with NRDC and Forest Ethics that busted the myth that the Keystone XL pipeline would lower gasoline prices for U.S. and Canadian consumers. It is actually more likely to raise prices by diverting oil from refineries in the Midwest, which are focused on serving the domestic market, to refineries on…
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Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform Gaining Momentum Internationally
David Turnbull
May23
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 23 May 2012 Contact: David Turnbull, (+1) 202-316-3499 Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform Gaining Momentum Internationally 111 Countries Mention Subsidy Reform in Latest Submissions to UN Climate Convention; 76 NGOs Call on World Leaders to Take Concrete Steps to Eliminate Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies WASHINGTON, DC – Ahead of upcoming meetings in June of the…
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Frac-Sand Nation
Andy Rowell
May23
It is not so long ago that “fracking” moved from a term used by the oil industry to enter the mainstream collective consciousness, as the technique spread like a cancer across America. Fracking is the process by which oil companies pump a mixture of sand, water and chemicals under high pressure to release gas. It…
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Keystone XL Gas Price Myth Busted
Lorne Stockman
May22
Download the report. NRDC, Oil Change International and ForestEthics Advocacy released a report today that blows apart the tar sands industry’s claims that building the Keystone XL pipeline would lower gasoline prices in America. The report lays out how Keystone XL would reduce gasoline supplies in America by diverting Canadian tar sands crude from the Midwest to the…
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70,000 Ask Shell to Clean Up in Nigeria
Andy Rowell
May22
Seventeen years ago I was one of many protestors at Shell’s AGM in London at the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Centre that lies in the shadow of Big Ben, near London’s Parliament. There were two issues facing the oil giant that day: in Nigeria the Ogoni playwright, Ken Saro-Wiwa, lay in a disgusting and degrading humid…
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Haemorrhaging Heartland Still in Denial
Andy Rowell
May21
Well the old adage is when you are in a hole, stop digging. Someone though has not told Joe Bast, the head of the Heartland Institute. Poor old Joe is feeling rather sorry that at his time of need his colleagues are deserting him. In a recent blog he criticises one such colleague saying that…
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Dirty Energy Money Buys Yet Another Keystone Vote
Karen Showalter
May18
The House of Representatives took a non-binding vote earlier today on whether to support inclusion of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline in a transportation bill currently being negotiated by both chambers. It passed 261-152. The influence of dirty energy money has once again reared its ugly head. Those voting in favor of the inclusion of…
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Eleven Donors Dump Heartland
Andy Rowell
May16
Next week the cream of the world’s climate deniers will descend on Chicago for the Heartland Institute’s latest annual sceptic-fest. The headline for the conference is “Real Science, Real Choices.” That’s more fact-twisting propaganda from Heartland that has pushed climate denial for years. The Institute was hoping for a bumper conference that would help it…
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Tar sands pipelines don’t just leak oil
Lorne Stockman
May15
Download our briefing on the tar sands exemption to the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund here. When Enbridge’s Line 6B burst open near Marshall, Michigan in July 2010 spewing over a million gallons of tar sands sludge into the Kalamazoo river watershed, funds were quickly released from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to mobilize…
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