Oil Change International

Our sites: The Price of Oil | Dirty Energy Money | Shift the Subsidies

Donate Now Take Action

The Price of Oil

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.

Posts in Climate Change

• 

  Is Shale Gas Britain’s New North Sea?

  Andy Rowell, May 22, 2013
  As a new report is published arguing that Britain's shale gas could become the "new North Sea", critics argue it is “wildly optimistic”, based on “mind-boggling” forecasts and “hopelessly misleading estimates of gas extraction.”
• 

  Indigenous Activists Challenge Shell

  Andy Rowell, May 21, 2013
  Shell was challenged at its AGM by Indigenous activists over the tar sands and Arctic drilling
• 

  Canadian MP Calls for Petcoke Inquest

  Andy Rowell, May 20, 2013
  A member of the Canadian Parliament has said he wants an investigation into a three-story mound of petcoke piling up near the Marathon refinery along the Detroit River.
• 

  Tar Sands Makes Climate Change “Unsolvable”

  Andy Rowell, May 17, 2013
  One of the world’s leading climate scientists Dr James Hansen has warned British MPs that exploiting the tar sands and oil shale would make the problem of climate change “unsolvable”.
• 

  Our Oil Addiction Ignores CO2 Milestone

  Andy Rowell, May 14, 2013
  Last week we reached an unwelcome milestone which should send alarm bells ringing in every capital across the globe.
• 

  Al Gore Tells Obama to Cancel KXL

  Andy Rowell, May 8, 2013
  Love him or loath him, you can say one thing Al Gore at the moment. He is certainly winding the Canadians up into a right old rage. Yesterday I blogged how he had called the tar sands to an “open sewer”. Gore then went on to give a public interview with The Globe and Mail....
  Continue reading 'Al Gore Tells Obama to Cancel KXL'.
• 

  Keystone XL Could Cost Society Over $100 Billion per Year

  Lorne Stockman, May 7, 2013
  The Keystone XL Pipeline's social cost of carbon could be as much as $100 billion per year. Until government agencies properly account for the cost of climate change caused by major fossil fuel infrastructure, projects like Keystone XL will continue to impose disproportionate costs on society.
• 

  Canada’s “Sewer Salesman” Heads to Europe

  Andy Rowell, May 7, 2013
  One of Canada’s most senior politicians is back in Europe on yet another lobby tour to try and bully politicians there to ditch their landmark climate legislation as it discriminates against the dirty tar sands.
• 

  Climate Activist on Day 29 of Hunger Strike

  Andy Rowell, April 29, 2013
  A young climate activist is on the 29th day of a planned 30 day hunger strike. For nearly the last month, all he has consumed is water, salt and potassium.
• 

  EPA: tar sands “significantly more intensive than other crudes”

  Andy Rowell, April 24, 2013
  The EPA slams the State Department review of Keystone XL pipeline, arguing that, from a climate perspective, “oil sands crude is significantly more GHG intensive than other crudes, and therefore has potentially large impacts.”