Ignoring the potential threat of further sanctions, both Exxon and BP have strengthened ties with Russia’s state-controlled oil company, Rosneft, in deals that can also only be seen as bad news for the climate.
Politics
Two-Thirds of Britain Could be Fracked
The British Government is set to unleash a fracking frenzy across large parts of the country as politicians try and replicate the American energy revolution.
BP Sides with President Putin
The oil industry always maintains that politics is a job for somebody else – it just gets on with drilling for oil and gas. The line is a fallacy of course, as the industry uses its economic might to prop up politicians that give it favourable tax breaks or subsidies or push its climate destructive policies.
Response to Supreme Court ruling on McCutcheon v. FEC
Despite the cynical and reactionary McCutcheon v. FEC Supreme Court decision, we’ll keep our faith in the only force that has consistently rallied against greed throughout our nation’s history – the American people.
Is the Senate Energy Committee being handed to Big Oil?
A game of political musical chairs has set off a transition that will hand Big Oil the keys to the influential Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. What’s worse, the whole thing could have been avoided.
Scientists and Senators Concerned About U.S Undermining EU’s Climate Legislation
Leading scientists and American politicians are worried that the the US is trying to undermine the EU’s landmark Fuel Quality Directive
Big Oil Winners in UK Lobby Bill
There is widespread outrage in the UK this morning at the proposed “Lobbying Bill” that is being debated today in the House of Commons in London.
The Dutch Want to Frack too
As protests against fracking in the UK continue, the Netherlands is the latest European country to signal that it is set to press ahead with the controversial technique.
The Golden State’s Fracking Wars
The State of California is fast becoming the front line in America’s fracking wars.
1/3 of UK Ministers Linked to Big Oil & Finance
On both sides of the Atlantic, politicians are intricately linked to the oil industry.