If a tobacco company gave the World Health Organisation a $10 million grant to examine the health effects of smoking, health campaigners would be outraged.  They would also treat the results with great suspicion.
And the fact that Shell gave UNEP $10 million dollars to examine the cause of oil spills in Ogoni means that – [...]

Talking to people about the Deepwater Horizon, often a response has been “how can something like that happen in the US.”
Exactly that question is being forensically picked over by lawyers and Congressional investigators and the answers are increasingly looking unpalatable.
But one thing for sure it could not happen without the raw power of big oil. [...]

The industry’s PR response from Deepwater is shaping up nicely. This is the industry message:
We will give you improved safety and you give us resumed drilling. The Gulf of Mexico represents energy security and jobs for the boys to boot.
The tar sands of Canada also represent energy security, so if you let us build a [...]

Is this what the beginning of the end of the oil age looks like?
Millions of gallons of oil continue to pour out across the Gulf, devastating wildlife and countless livelihoods, from tourism to fishermen.
Thousands of people are employed scooping, skimming, burning and mopping up oil in a largely fruitless gesture.

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 [...]