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Natural Resources Committee votes for Big Oil
David Turnbull, April 24, 2013
Regular readers of this blog will not be surprised to hear that the GOP-led Natural Resources committee of the House of Representatives followed the Energy and Commerce Committee’s lead in voting to advance a bill designed to circumvent normal process and force approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. Even more astute readers will also not...
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59 Groups Pressure World Bank to Clean Up Energy Lending
Elizabeth Bast, April 3, 2013
Development, faith, human rights, community, and environmental groups from more than 20 countries teamed up today to ask World Bank President Jim Kim to end Bank support for all fossil fuel projects unless the projects are solely focused on directly increasing energy access for the poor.
Latest pro-Keystone XL letter from Congress once again awash with oil money
David Turnbull, January 29, 2013
Representatives that signed the latest pro-Keystone XL letter received roughly 250% more money from oil and gas interests compared to those Representatives who did not sign the letter.
Pro-Keystone XL Letter Dripping in Fossil Fuel Money
David Turnbull, January 23, 2013
In the ongoing saga that is the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, it’s clear that supporters of the dangerous project are getting anxious. Perhaps they’re seeing the writing on the wall that this project is nowhere near a sure thing, thanks to the massive resistance to the pipeline, the scientists throwing their weight in opposition...
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Petroleum Coke: The Coal Hiding in the Tar Sands
Lorne Stockman, January 17, 2013
Existing analyses of the impacts of tar sands fail to account for a byproduct of the process that is a major source of climate change causing carbon emissions: petroleum coke - known as petcoke. Petcoke is the coal hiding in North America's tar sands oil boom.
There’s coal hiding in the tar sands, and the emissions are not being counted
Lorne Stockman, January 17, 2013
Increasing petcoke use is a clear result of the increasing production of tar sands bitumen. Petcoke is a seldom discussed yet highly important aspect of the full impacts of tar sands production. Factored into the equation, petcoke puts another strong nail in the coffin of any rational argument for the further exploitation of the tar sands.
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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Oil’s new supply boom is a bust for the climate
Steve Kretzmann, October 25, 2012
What if you knew that smoking that one last packet of cigarettes was going to give you cancer? Imagine if our understanding of cancer was so precise as to allow doctors to predict with virtual certainty that smoking that particular pack, which you just picked up at the corner store, would definitely be the last...
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Koch’ed up: Petcoke’s political pollution
David Turnbull, October 17, 2012
If there's a statistical correlation between dirty oil and dirty politics, we have yet to quantify it – but here's another story for the pile of anecdotal evidence.
Big Oil spin vs. Reality in Tonight’s Debate
David Turnbull, October 3, 2012
It’s pretty safe to assume one or both of the candidates will bring up energy issues in some predictable ways.

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