EU Commissioner Calls for End to Subsidies

June 20, 2012By Andy RowellBlog Post, Featured

Connie Hedegaard, the outspoken EU Commissioner for Climate Action, has lent her weight to the growing calls for ending fossil fuel subsidies. Earlier in the week, Oil Change International revealed that fossil fuel subsidies could be as high a $1 trillion. Oil Change has been working with others NGOs to make phasing out subsidies a … Read More

Dave Camp: You Get What You Pay For

November 18, 2011By Lorne StockmanBlog Post

Written by Ross Hammond The fossil fuel industry is nothing if not clever. Rather than try to defend on the merits of their taking billions of dollars a year in government handouts, they’ve decided to change not only the conversation, but the language itself. So for example an attempt to repeal some of the oil … Read More