Earlier this month, I blogged how the tar sands lobby was trying to exploit BP’s Gulf of Mexico spill.
Well the pro-tar sands argument has once again been blown out of the water by a report from the social investment network, Ceres.
It argues that the environmental and financial risks of producing oil in Canada’s vast oil [...]

If you have never been to an oil company AGM it is worth going to watch two parallel words colliding for a few hours.
On the one side are the protestors arguing passionately for the company to listen to how their activities are destroying someone’s homeland or are polluting the earth.
Up on the top table sit [...]

Timing, they say, is everything. Yesterday I blogged on the US military’s latest warnings on peak oil and how we face a severe energy crunch.
The military planners examined different production methods and flagged up potential problems.
With the Canadian tar sands they warned that “legal constraints may discourage investment.”

Finally people are waking up to the concept that the fossil fuel industry’s supposedly wonder transition fuel – gas – may not be so green after all.
It’s a subject I have covered on this blog before, notably questioning just how green shale gas is, but now the idea is getting some serious traction.  

Exxon has often been signalled out as the company doing the most to undermine the science of climate change.
But this is no longer the case.
There is a new secret climate sceptic funding machine and it is called Koch Industries, the oil and manufacturing giant that is the second largest privately-held company in America.