Last month, a ground-breaking study by Oil Change and other NGO’s calculated that Shell was the world’s most carbon intensive oil company, per barrel of oil equivalent to be produced.  The main reason for this is its massive expansion into Canada’s climate intensive dirty oil sands.
The report looked at the carbon intensity of the total [...]

I 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 [...]

Once an oil man always an oil man. Old George W might be a lame duck President, but he still has oil flowing through his veins.
Whilst the world’s focus is on what the new Obama Presidency will do to combat climate change or energy security, old President Bush is making sure he makes the problem [...]

There might be a “mine it flat” mentality in Alberta concerning tar sands, but one provincial government has just adopted a different approach to unconventional oil resources.
The only problem is that it is thousands of miles away in Australia.
Australia’s Queensland state has banned shale-oil mining for 20 years, blocking a plan for a strip-mine that [...]

The old saying is “when in a hole, stop digging”. Faced with rising energy prices, and concern over climate change, rather than disinvest out of oil, the US is going to start digging for more of it.
But this time it’s oil shale, which is dirtier, and more energy intensive than conventional oil. Oil shale development [...]