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  What Climate Crisis? Sales of SUVs Booming in Europe

  Andy Rowell, March 3, 2015
  If you thought that growing awareness about climate change, coupled with years of austerity and recession, would mean that European drivers would be buying small fuel efficient cars, you would be wrong.
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  Transporting Tar Sands “As Dangerous” As Shale Oil

  Andy Rowell, March 2, 2015
  There is growing evidence that transporting tar sands oil maybe as inherently dangerous as carrying the volatile Bakken shale oil.
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  100 Presidential Words Stop 1000 Miles of KXL…for now

  Andy Rowell, February 25, 2015
  Yesterday, in a moment described as void of “drama or fanfare,” he vetoed legislation which would have forced approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry dirty tar sands oil Alberta to the Gulf Coast.
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  Oil Giant Shell Shelves Dirty Tar Sands Mine

  Andy Rowell, February 24, 2015
  In a sign that the oil price plunge is really beginning to bite, yesterday oil giant Royal Dutch Shell announced that the company is indefinitely postponing plans to develop a new tar sands mine in northern Alberta.
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  IHS’s predictable Keystone study adds nothing new

  Lorne Stockman, February 23, 2015
  IHS published today a predictable and hollow attempt to rebut much of our work on Keystone XL’s links to markets beyond North America and the ability of rail to replace the pipeline.
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  Climate Sceptic’s Fossil Fuel Funding Exposed

  Andy Rowell, February 23, 2015
  For nearly two decades avid researcher, Kert Davies, has been hunting climate deniers and exposing their links to the fossil fuel industry.
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  BP Out of Touch on Climate and Clean Energy Technology

  Greg Muttitt, February 18, 2015
  How BP's Outlook for Energy looks to the past not the future
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  Fracking Industry Learns From Big Tobacco

  Andy Rowell, February 18, 2015
  As so often in the past, where the tobacco industry leads, the oil industry follows.
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  State of Emergency in West Virginia After Latest Crude by Rail Disaster

  Andy Rowell, February 16, 2015
  A state of emergency was declared late yesterday in two counties in the south of West Virginia after a crude by rail train oil derailed and exploded, in what is the latest in a long string of accidents in North America.
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  Exxon to Eat “Bite-sized” BP?

  Andy Rowell, February 16, 2015
  Earlier this month, BP’s beleaguered Chief Executive Bob Dudley warned that the falling oil price had created a “raging gale” for the oil industry which could last for years.