A chaotic, back-stabbing and farcical week in Australian politics saw the socially conservative, Scott Morrison, become the new Prime Minister earlier today and Scott loves coal.
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Now Oz Prime Minister Jumps off “Climate Cliff” to Save Political Career
Once again cheap dirty energy has literally trumped a clean sustainable future
Investors worth $10 Trillion and the Pope Urge Big Oil to Act on Climate
This weekend two remarkable parallel events happened in a building in the gardens of the Vatican, where hundreds of years ago Galileo was condemned.
British Prime Minister Facilitates BP’s New Oil Contract with Azerbaijan Dictatorship
Last week, the British Prime Minister, Theresa May hosted the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, for a meeting at Downing Street, which included the signing of a new energy deal between BP and the Azerbaijan State Oil Company
Kinder Morgan: Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion May Now be “Untenable”
As Big Oil’s new poster boy, Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, scrabbles around for investors for Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline, extra finance may not be enough to save the controversial pipeline.
“Pinot Not Pipelines”: Canada’s Kinder Morgan Battle Descends into Wine Wars
There is an escalating tension in Canada between the Albertan and British Columbian (B.C) Governments over the disputed Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline, which is due to transport tar sands from Alberta to the B.C Coast.
Welcome to DC’s #DirtyEnergyWeek
The ultimate corporate greenwashing experience starts in DC today when some of America’s dirtiest polluters participate in what is being billed as the “National Clean Energy Week”
Uganda and Tanzania Sign Deal for Major Oil Pipeline
The new 1,400 km East African Crude Oil Pipeline and resulting oil boom in Uganda could bring significant problems to the region. We only have to look at Nigeria and its 60 year spiral of pollution, corruption and violence to know that often oil is a curse rather than a blessing.
White Supremacists and Climate Deniers Applaud Trump
There was growing outrage last night at the appointment of Steve Bannon as Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff.
Walk free, Ken Junior, there are no more shadows anymore..
The news from earlier this week that Ken Wiwa, the son of the Nigerian activist and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa, has died at the young age of forty seven, is a devastating shock to anyone who knew him.