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Exposing the true costs of fossil fuels

Oil Change International campaigns to expose the true costs of fossil fuels and facilitate the coming transition towards clean energy.

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  Report: Exporting Energy Security: Keystone XL Exposed

  Steve Kretzmann, August 31, 2011
  Keystone XL will not lessen U.S. dependence on foreign oil, but rather transport Canadian oil to American refineries for export to overseas markets.

• Access to Energy for the Poor: The Clean Energy Option

  Elizabeth Bast, June 1, 2011
  A dual focus on increasing access to energy services for the world’s poorest and promoting clean sources of energy is a win-win scenario for development and the environment.

• Reserves Replacement Ratio in a Marginal Oil World

  Lorne Stockman, December 4, 2010
  Our research found that at least four of the top six IOCs have significantly relied on tar sands reserves additions to support RRR rates in the past five years. As a percentage of total liquids additions, tar sands represents between 26% and 71% of reserves additions for these four companies.

• World Bank Group Energy Financing: Energy for the Poor?

  Elizabeth Bast, October 1, 2010
  This study finds that none of the World Bank Group’s fossil fuel finance directly targets the poor or ensures that energy benefits are reaching the poor.

• Shell’s Big Dirty Secret

  Elizabeth Bast, June 1, 2009
  This new research paper rates the carbon intensity of the top international oil companies, revealing that Shell is now the most carbon intensive oil company in the world based on its total resources.

• Dirty is the New Clean: A Critique of the World Bank’s Strategic Framework for Development and Climate Change

  Elizabeth Bast, October 1, 2008
  The World Bank’s new three-year Strategic Framework on Development and Climate Change makes a strong case for urgent action on global warming, but the Bank’s increased lending for fossil fuels in the past year suggests limiting climate change is far from a priority.

• A Climate of War

  Elizabeth Bast, March 1, 2008
  On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, this report by Oil Change International quantifies both the greenhouse gas emissions of the Iraq War and the opportunity costs involved in fighting war rather than climate change.

• Follow the Oil Money — Key Findings

  Elizabeth Bast, February 1, 2008
  Members of Congress Who Take More Money from Big Oil Vote More Often for Big Oil at the Expense of the Public Interest

• Aiding Oil, Harming the Climate: A Database of Public Funds for Fossil Fuels

  Elizabeth Bast, December 1, 2007
  This report, based on the End Oil Aid database, quantifies the magnitude of subsidies from governments going to the oil and gas industry internationally via international financial institutions, often in the name of poverty alleviation.

• Crude Designs: The Rip-Off of Iraq’s Oil Wealth

  Elizabeth Bast, November 1, 2005
  Control of Iraq's future oil wealth is being handed to multinational oil companies through long-term contracts that will cost Iraq hundreds of billions of dollars.