British MPs to Examine Arctic Drilling Risks

January 10, 2012By Andy RowellBlog Post, Featured

So the Arctic oil rush gathers apace. The Norwegian oil firm Statoil has made a second big oil discovery in the Barents Sea in less than a year. Statoil confirmed that the new oil find, called Havis, might contain some 200 to 300 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalent. If you add these to the … Read More

Oh the Canadian hypocrisy..

January 9, 2012By Andy RowellBlog Post, Featured

For over two years now the Canadian and Albertan governments have engaged in one of the most extensive public relations campaigns ever seen at the EU. They have been trying to undermine European efforts to tackle climate change through the Fuel Quality Directive. They even set up a secret task force to push their pro-tar … Read More

The API doesn’t just threaten Obama, it threatens us all.

January 5, 2012By Lorne StockmanBlog Post, Featured 2 Comments

 Yesterday’s presentation by American Petroleum Institute CEO Jack Gerard (right) was reported widely as the oil industry laying down the gauntlet for Obama to approve Keystone XL. The threat was indeed pretty clear. Gerard claimed President Obama would face “huge political consequences” if he denied the permit for the project. But the API’s agenda, which is clearly … Read More

Big Oil Threatens President Obama

January 4, 2012By Steve KretzmannBlog Post, Featured, Separate Oil and State 3 Comments

 By Brendan Demelle, DeSmogBlog American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard today announced the oil and gas industry’s latest election-year scare campaign to threaten the demise of the U.S. economy unless Big Oil gets its every wish in Washington. This year the wish list includes approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, expanded offshore drilling on both … Read More

Appeal Court Upholds Chevron Guilty Verdict

January 4, 2012By Andy RowellBlog Post, Featured

Chevron has been found guilty again. Yesterday, an Ecuadorian appeals court upheld a ruling that the oil giant should pay US$18 billion in damages for polluting the Amazon. It was last February that a local judge had ordered Chevron to pay US$8.6 billion in damages, but the amount was doubled to US$18 billion because Chevron … Read More

New Year: Old Dirty Tricks

January 3, 2012By Andy RowellBlog Post, Featured

It might be a new year but it’s the same old dirty tricks from the folks at the very unethical EthicalOil.org They are running an advertising campaign accusing leading Canadian environmental groups of being “front groups” paid by “Foreign special interests”. At the same time they have launched a highly misleading website called www.ourDecision.ca, which … Read More