Pressure on as fuel prices rise three times more quickly than incomes or inflation. Families are going without fresh fruit and vegetables to pay for petrol which has increased in price three times faster than household incomes.With... […]

Fast-growing countries producing oil and other commodities are taking advantage of recent gains by buying about half of the $2 trillion worth of goods sold by China overseas. […]

Investors have pulled back in May in recent years, but there are forces working against a repeat. […]

The House of Representatives took a non-binding vote earlier today on whether to support inclusion of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline in a transportation bill currently being negotiated by both chambers. It passed 261-152. The influence of dirty energy money has once again reared its ugly head. Those voting in favor of the inclusion of...Continue read […]

Next week the cream of the world’s climate deniers will descend on Chicago for the Heartland Institute’s latest annual sceptic-fest. The headline for the conference is “Real Science, Real Choices.”  That’s more fact-twisting propaganda from Heartland that has pushed climate denial for years. The Institute was hoping for a bumper conference that would help it […]

Download our briefing on the tar sands exemption to the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund here. When Enbridge’s Line 6B burst open near Marshall, Michigan in July 2010 spewing over a million gallons of tar sands sludge into the Kalamazoo river watershed, funds were quickly released from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to mobilize...Continue reading 'Tar […]

Last week, the god-father of climate science, James Hansen, who directs the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, re-iterated his warning about exploiting the tar sands in an op-ed in the New York Times. His warning was dire:  “Canada’s tar sands contain twice the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by global oil use in our...Continue reading 'Koch-ing […]

Members of Congress have taken almost $16 million from the oil, gas and coal industries so far in this 112th Congress. That puts this Congress on track to be the dirtiest ever. The information comes to light as part of the latest update of DirtyEnergyMoney.com, a project of Oil Change International which uniquely refines and...Continue reading 'Dirty En […]

And so it goes on. It might be a different day but the ongoing vortex of violence, pollution, protest and conflict continues in the Niger Delta. The oil giant, Shell is at the middle of this vortex, as it has been for decades, with the company unwilling to take adequate steps to stop the violence...Continue reading 'Shell in Nigeria: Its Worse than Bad […]

Last Friday, the long-standing climate denier think tank, the Heartland Institute ran an advert featuring the Unabomber on a billboard in Chicago that read “I still believe in Global Warming? Do you?” The Unabomber advert was going to be followed by images of  Fidel Castro, Osama Bin Laden, and hostage-taker James J. Lee. According to...Continue reading […]

Sorry to hark on about this – but proponents of fracking keep on saying it is a precise science that is safe, which will not contaminate water supplies. But we know that is not true. We also know the technique is still essentially in its infancy and the science and detailed surveys into the controversial...Continue reading 'Scientific Study Warns Fracki […]

One thing is certain: pipelines have become a political hot potato. Over the next few months the debate about Keystone XL will surely dog the Presidential debate like a bad penny. But as the furore over Keystone has grown it is easy to forget about the state of other pipelines in the US and how...Continue reading 'US Pipeline Regulations “Inadequate” […]

We have known for a long time that the Canadian government was colluding with the oil and gas industry over tar sands and its campaign against Europe’s Fuel Quality Directive (FQD). But new documents have come to light that reveal the extent of that collusion, especially between Big Oil and Natural Resources Canada, the Department...Continue reading 'Bi […]