Deputy Premier of Alberta Ron Stevens is in Washington this week, meeting with Bush Administration officials and members of Congress to promote the importation of dirty tar sands oil to the United States. Oil Change and our coalition partners took out an ad (pdf) to greet him.
Stevens is expected to advocate that tar sands oil […]

At their annual summit in Tokyo, European and Japanese leaders have called for “ambitious and binding” targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Their statement says curbing climate change will need mobilisation of “unprecedented investments and finance” mainly from the private sector.

Interesting story this one. For fifty years, Shell and Nigeria’s future has been intertwined despite the lethal consequences. But now things are changing.
According to press reports, the Nigerian government has withheld up to $1bn as part of a production-sharing agreement while the two sides are locked in talks over how to pay for new investments […]

There is a new red hot Province in Canada for oil investments and its not Alberta.
Land sales for oil and gas rights in Saskatchewan in April raked in $265 million for the province, smashing the Province’s record for annual land sale revenue of $250 million set last year. “There’s huge investment in our province […]

Sorry to bang on about this, but literally every day another voice comes out against biofuels. This time it’s the turn of Robert Zoellick, the President of the World Bank.
Zoellick said: “In the US and Europe over the last year we have been focusing on the prices of gasoline at the pumps. While many worry […]