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 [...]

If you have never been to an oil company AGM it is worth going to watch two parallel words colliding for a few hours.
On the one side are the protestors arguing passionately for the company to listen to how their activities are destroying someone’s homeland or are polluting the earth.
Up on the top table sit [...]

Oil Giant BP faces a barrage of criticism from investors at today’s AGM at the Excel Centre in London Docklands over the environmental cost of its controversial tar sands project in Canada.
BP’s showcase presentation to investors and shareholders is being overshadowed by a resolution tabled by over 140 shareholders asking the oil firm to produce [...]

Earlier in the week I blogged about how British banks were under fire for their investment in the tar sands.
But they are not the only ones. There are also home-grown banks investing in the destruction of their own country.
Yesterday, over 170 people rallied outside of the Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC’s) Annual General Shareholder meeting [...]

Are you ready for Saturday’s International day of climate action? The campaign organisation 350.org is calling on people around the world to organize an action this Saturday on October 24.
What started out eighteen months  ago as a idea promoted by author/climate-change activist Bill McKibben and a few students, 350.org has gone global.
The Web-based network says [...]