How do you get people interested in climate change? Well, Friends of the Earth UK thinks it has the answer. It has just published an amusing video on the issue, featuring a female “dominatrix”, a whip and a politician tied to the bed, with an orange stuffed in his mouth! Called the “Sticky Question” it … Read More
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Exxon Faces More Pressure For Action on Climate
How long can Exxosaurus hold out before it takes action? It may dismiss concerns from environmentalists but it is coming under increasing pressure from shareholders to take decisive action over climate change. This time its pressure from the treasurers of seven US states and one city who are pressuring Exxon’s board of directors for a … Read More
Peace in a Gas Pump
Great Memorial Day post from David Swanson on AfterDowning Street. Peace in a Gas Pump or Bringing Pharaoh’s Armed Madhouse Home | AfterDowningStreet.org
Intervention!
The United States is addicted to oil and we’re working with allies and tens of thousands of citizens to intervene. Check out this great new flash video, take action, and please pass it on! Meanwhile, like the addicts that they are, G8 leaders focussed this year’s St. Petersburg Summit on promoting trillions of dollars of … Read More
Putin Talks Tough With EU
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is said to have “icily” rejected US and EU criticism of Russia’s blatant use of gas resources as a political weapon in a dispute with Ukraine earlier in the year. More importantly he also publicly rebuffed European attempts to gain access to his country’s vast gas pipeline network. Putin’s tough stance … Read More
Sceptic Ads Are “A Deliberate Effort to Mislead”
A senior scientist whose work is being featured in adverts produced by the Exxon-funded Competitive Enterprise Insitute, has condemned them as “a deliberate effort to mislead.” Professor Curt Davis of the University of Missouri-Columbia whose study on Antarctic ice sheets is used in the adverts, says they “are confusing and misleading the public.” The adverts … Read More
Big Oil Goes on the Offensive With Advertising and Lobbying
As Big Oil comes under attack for high gas prices, “price gouging”, record profits and huge pay-outs to executives, it is spending millions on advertising to win over a skeptical public. They have also increased their lobbying efforts in Washington to reassure an increasingly hostile Congress.
Saudi Arabia Promises to help Reduce CO2 Emissions in Oil Industry
Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter and therefore the world’s largest indirect polluter, has finally signalled it will help the fight against global warming through, wait for it, helping research into reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the oil industry!
More on The Great Iraq Oil Grab
If you thought the new Iraqi government would govern Iraq for the people, well, I”m sorry. Think again. Good article on Alternet today about who controls Iraq’s oil fields. It quotes Antonia Juhasz, author of “The Bush Agenda,” who has undertaken her own research into Production Sharing Agreements – that were the subject of the … Read More
Exxon: Protecting Tomorrow Today (So They Say)
It’s official. According to Exxon and its latest Corporate Citizenship Report it is not a dinosaur when it comes to climate change or corporate responsibility.