Obama and energy security: another missed opportunity

March 30, 2011By Lorne StockmanBlog Post, Featured

The president presented some encouraging words at Georgetown University today when he spoke about the urgent need to address America’s energy security. As he so often does, he correctly identified the problem the nation faces in continuing to rely on dirty forms of energy that pollute and cause climate change and particularly on oil, the … Read More

Join the International Call: World Bank, Free Us from Fossil Fuels

February 24, 2011By Traci RomineBlog Post 1 Comment

It’s time to shift international energy investments to support energy services that are clean, reliable, and sustainable, and honestly provide energy access for the poorest. You can help. The World Bank – an influential development bank that runs on taxpayer money – is currently updating its Energy Strategy that will guide its investments for the … Read More

What oil subsidies is Obama targeting?

January 26, 2011By Steve KretzmannBlog Post, Featured 1 Comment

Last night, The President once again proposed ending subsidies to the oil industry.  As we’ve said before, this is a great idea, and should be supported in full. That said, although we haven’t seen details, it’s quite unlikely that the Administration is proposing to eliminate all these subsidies.  First, there is an important difference from … Read More

Report: G20 Fossil Fuel Subsidy Phase Out

November 8, 2010By Steve KretzmannBlog Post, Research & Opinions 1 Comment

G20 Fossil-Fuel Subsidy Phase Out: A review of current gaps and needed changes to achieve success Oil Change International & Earth Track November 2010 Download the full report, G20 Fossil-Fuel Subsidy Phase Out (PDF) The Economist: “Green view: How to save $300 billion,” November 12, 2010. Financial Times: Alan Beattie, “G20 countries accused of fossil … Read More

Universal energy access stressed at UN

September 22, 2010By Elizabeth BastBlog Post

Yesterday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed the importance of making energy available to the poor as a foundation for combating poverty as world leaders gathered in New York this week at the Millennium Development Goal Summit. At a high-level event yesterday, the Secretary General said that it is lack of political will that is keeping … Read More

“Trillions” to defend oil supply

August 9, 2010By Steve KretzmannBlog Post, Separate Oil and State

Since the 1973 Arab oil embargo, successive US administrations have equated national security with access to, and control of, oil – particularly in the Persian Gulf, which holds two-thirds of global oil reserves. In other words, as long as we need oil, we need the Persian Gulf. Faced with this unpleasant fact, every President since … Read More

NWF Attack Oil Industry’s “Assault on America”

July 30, 2010By Andy RowellBlog Post

Yesterday Shell waded into the Deepwater fall-out by defending deep-water drilling. Peter Voser, Shell chief executive, argued that deep-water drilling still had an important role to play in global energy supply. “We have got growth potential there”. But what cost is this growth? Even the industry’s own trade magazines are questioning the business as usual … Read More