Archive for the 'Heroes' Category
Controversial Oil Leases Cancelled in Utah
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell February 6th, 2009 in Heroes, US politics, energy policy, financing oil and gas, protestsI hope this one really annoys George W, the recently departed President of the United States and his oil industry cronies.
In what is a signal that Obama’s administration is changing direction in relation to energy poicy on public lands, the newly installed Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has cancelled 77 highly controversial oil and gas leases [...]
Bailing out Bidder 70
3 Comments Published by Steve Kretzmann January 5th, 2009 in Heroes, Oil Shale, financing oil and gas, oil sandsI never have been big on rules.
And neither apparently, is Tim DeChristopher. He’s the young activist who just completely derailed the Bush Administration’s plans to sell more of our public lands to the oil companies.
He sat in the lease sale in Salt Lake City on December 19th and “bought” 22,500 acres of public lands right [...]
Green Jobs Now!
0 Comments Published by Steve Kretzmann September 26th, 2008 in Alternative energy, Heroes, PoliticsLooking for something great to do on Saturday? All of us here at Oil Change urge you to join the National Day of Action for Green Jobs. Its a perfect way to address the crises in both our economy and our ecology at the same time.
Green Jobs Now is a National Day of Action that [...]
Robert Engler: Early Advocate for Oil Accountability
0 Comments Published by Steve Kretzmann March 7th, 2007 in Heroes, OilOn February 23rd, the community of energy activists lost one of our earliest and clearest voices for change in the oil industry. Robert Engler, whose many books included the seminal and prescient Brotherhood of Oil passed at his home in New York City. He was 84.
What follows is from a Washington Post obituary that [...]
