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Bankers Warn Oil is “Unburnable Carbon”
Andy Rowell, January 29, 2013
A report from HSBC suggests BP, Shell and Norway’s Statoil could lose some 40 and 60 per cent of their market value if “unburnable carbon” scenarios are put in place.
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UK Set to Frack, Baby, Frack
Andy Rowell, December 5, 2012
To facilitate Britain's “Dash for Gas”, the Chancellor George Osborne is expected to give the green light to widespread fracking across the UK and will consult on giving lucrative tax breaks to the fracking industry.
Obama Continues to “Drill Baby Drill”
Andy Rowell, November 28, 2012
Later today as part of Obama’s “All of the Above” energy strategy, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will hold an oil and gas lease sale that will make more than 20 million offshore acres available to oil and gas drilling.
Protesters Block Tar Sands Conference
Andy Rowell, November 21, 2012
The fourth annual Canada-EU Energy Summit was held yesterday in London at Canada House in London. The event was disrupted by protestors angered at Canada’s aggressive lobbying to undermine European legislation.
Big Oil bet big…and lost.
Steve Kretzmann, November 7, 2012
Remember how scared everyone was of Big Oil in this election? Who’s scared now? The top candidate backed by the fossil fuel industry – big oil, gas and coal – just lost the election. The latest data (October 15) from the Center for Responsive Politics, further refined and analyzed by Oil Change International, indicates that...
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“No Dash for Gas” Ends Protest
Andy Rowell, November 5, 2012
This morning the last two protesters from the “No Dash for Gas” group occupying the chimney of a huge gas power station in the UK intend to end their protest having shut the new power station down for a week. They and other protesters who have already come down have been protesting against the UK...
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North America is the “New Middle East”
Andy Rowell, October 24, 2012
The US could soon replace Saudi Arabia as the world’s leading oil producer, just as the Saudis promise to go green
Fires, storms and the energy independence myth
Lorne Stockman, August 28, 2012
All the talk of Hurricane Isaac and the RNC has so far failed to notice the gaping hole appearing in what is not only the Romney/Ryan energy platform but also the platform of the entire North American oil and gas industry. And frankly, while politicians might be forgiven (and I mean might) for not fully...
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Oil companies continue to profit at the expense of our future
David Turnbull, July 27, 2012
If you believe the press reports, you’d think that the oil industry was hurting of late, what with the headlines coming out of the most recent quarterly earnings reports saying things like, “Exxon and Shell Earnings Disappoint,” and “Occidental quarterly profit lower”, and “Chevron 2nd-Quarter Profit Off 6.8%; Upstream Earnings Fall”. These headlines paint a...
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Dirty Energy Money Buys Yet Another House Vote: H.R.4480
Karen Showalter, June 21, 2012
The US House of Representatives voted on H.R.4480: the Strategic Energy Production Act earlier today. The vote passed 248-163. Once again, dirty energy money interests have prevailed. Those voting in favor of the measure have taken over $52 million from the oil, gas and coal industries since 1999, and almost $11 million in this Congress...
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