The head of Strategy for BP, Dominic Emery, has admitted that some of the company’s oil and gas “won’t see the light of day.”
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Climate Denying Trump Administration Rebrands Fossil Fuels as “Freedom Gas”
The Trump Administration is redoubling its assault on the climate. Part of that is trying to redefine fossil fuels as “molecules of U.S. freedom” and “freedom gas.”
Fund Managers Worth $10 Trillion: “Writing on the wall for oil companies”
“The writing is on the wall for oil companies that do not support global efforts to avoid a climate catastrophe by urgently phasing out fossil fuels and transitioning to a low-carbon world.”
The Climate Rebellion May Be Growing, but Big Oil Keeps on Drilling
Even though the science says we cannot carry on drilling, the oil industry capital investment over the next decade is forecast to rise over 85%, reaching over $1 trillion a year.
“Shockwaves” as Norway’s $1Trill wealth fund plans to disinvest from upstream oil
The beginning of the end of the age of oil moved a step closer today
Jerry Brown’s Last Chance to Address Climate Change & Avert the “Carbon Bubble”
Tomorrow tens of thousands of people are expected to march in San Francisco to demand that California Governor, Jerry Brown, take decisive action on climate change, including signalling an end to oil and gas drilling in the State.
Major Investors Call for Paris-Aligned Energy Scenarios
288 major investors worth more than $26 trillion USD in assets are warning that we aren’t on track to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement and lack the tools needed to get there.   In a public statement and policy brief released yesterday, the group which includes major pension funds, banks, asset managers, churches, … Read More
As Canada Risks Billions in a “Carbon Bubble”, KM Bosses Get Big Bonuses
Days after Justin Trudeau blew an estimated $15 billion of hard earnt Canadian tax payers money on Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline, scientists are warning just how financially and ecologically stupid and short-sighted the investment was.
Civil society to Justin Trudeau: “The time for investment in new fossil fuel infrastructure is over”
With just over a week to go until the May 31 deadline set by Kinder Morgan for the Canadian Government to resolve all financial and political issues surrounding its highly controversial Trans Mountain pipeline, some 236 civil society groups from 44 countries have today written to Justin Trudeau to tell him to drop his support for the project.
“We are going to not allow Kinder Morgan to finish this pipeline”
As the clock ticks down until the May 31 deadline over the controversial Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline project, which will triple the amount of tar sands being transported from Alberta to the British Columbian coast, the campaign against its expansion is spreading abroad.