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  Subsidy Spotlight: Paid to Pollute and Poison

  David Turnbull, July 28, 2014
  The BP gulf oil spill may not have happened without government subsidies. In fact, at least two major subsidies were used both before and after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon to support BP.
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  Despite Half of UK to be Fracked, Energy Independence “Will Never Happen”

  Andy Rowell, July 28, 2014
  As so often in the past, where America leads, the UK obligingly and belligerently follows. It has been widely known for months that Britain was going to open up vast swathes of its densely-populated land for fracking, but now we have confirmation.
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  Big Oil Threatens Maine City After Tar Sands Export Ban

  Andy Rowell, July 23, 2014
  Big Oil has always been a bad, bad loser. And it is therefore no surprise that it has threatened to sue a small coastal city in Maine which on Monday night struck an historical blow against the industry by banning the export of tar sands from its harbour.
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  Half of Americans Still in Climate Denial

  Andy Rowell, July 22, 2014
  Last week the polling company, Ipsos-Mori, published its first ever Global Trends Report, which examined our attitudes to a whole host of topics such as technology, privacy, marriage, migration, health, globalisation, inequality, science and the environment.
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  California Acts over Fracking Water, Citing Contamination Fears

  Andy Rowell, July 21, 2014
  The conflict between California’s fracking industry and the State over protecting its precious water resources has been growing for months, made worst by California’s crippling ongoing drought.
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  Canada’s First Nations Oppose “Mother of All Pipelines”

  Andy Rowell, July 16, 2014
  Yet another pivotal battle is brewing in Canada, over a little-known pipeline labelled the “mother of all pipelines” by the country’s First Nations.
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  Tar Sands Steaming Cause Of “Endless Spills”

  Andy Rowell, July 15, 2014
  Finally one of Canada’s leading independent tar sands producers has conceded that it is partly to blame for a series of leaks of bitumen in Alberta that have been going on for over a year.
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  Barents Sea: “The Next Big Oil Region”

  Andy Rowell, July 14, 2014
  Late last week, the Norwegian government issued a license to energy giant Statoil to allow it to start drilling in the controversial Arctic waters of the Barents Sea.
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  U.S. Government Providing Billions in Fossil Fuel Subsidies to Unburnable Carbon

  Shakuntala Makhijani, July 9, 2014
  Today, Oil Change International released a comprehensive report on fossil fuel exploration and production subsidies in the U.S. – Cashing in on All of the Above: U.S. Fossil Fuel Production Subsidies under Obama – which demonstrates that at a time when we need urgent action on climate change more than ever, the U.S. government is...
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  Cashing in on All of the Above: U.S. Fossil Fuel Production Subsidies under Obama

  Shakuntala Makhijani, July 9, 2014
  Cashing in on All of the Above: U.S. Fossil Fuel Production Subsidies under Obama Oil Change International July 2014 A new report by Oil Change International, Cashing in on All of the Above: U.S. Fossil Fuel Production Subsidies under Obama, demonstrates the huge and growing amount of subsidies going to the fossil fuel industry in...
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