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Energy Transfer, Banks Lost Billions by Ignoring Early Dakota Access Pipeline Concerns
Energy Transfer, Banks Lost Billions by Ignoring Early Dakota Access Pipeline Concerns Roughly four years ago, Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) filed a federal application to build a 1,172 mile oil pipeline from North Dakota’s Bakken shale across the U.S. to Illinois at a projected cost of $3.8 billion. Before that application was filed, on September 30, 2014, […]
Decades of Denial and Stalling Have Created a Climate Crunch
Decades of Denial and Stalling Have Created a Climate Crunch In a 1965 speech to members, American Petroleum Institute president Frank Ikard outlined the findings of a report by then-president Lyndon Johnson’s Science Advisory Committee, based in part on research the institute conducted in the 1950s. “The substance of the report is that there is still […]
Climate Scientist Michael Mann Releases Emails Ahead of University of Arizona Response to E&E Legal
Climate Scientist Michael Mann Releases Emails Ahead of University of Arizona Response to E&E Legal Nearly a decade ago, in late 2009, a server at the University of East Anglia was hacked and thousands of emails from the university’s Climatic Research Unit were subsequently released in the run-up to the Copenhagen climate talks. Within these […]
Polish Government Issues Terrorism Alert in Katowice Days Before Start of UN Climate Talks
Polish Government Issues Terrorism Alert in Katowice Days Before Start of UN Climate Talks The Polish government has implemented a terrorism alert in the province where the annual UN climate talks are about to start. Climate campaigners are warning of a “tense atmosphere” in and around the city of Katowice in southern Poland, where the global climate negotiations, […]
Ocean Warming Study Criticism Shows How the Scientific Method Works
Ocean Warming Study Criticism Shows How the Scientific Method Works Errors in a recent ocean warming study illustrate global warming’s complexity. They also show the depths to which climate science deniers will stoop to dismiss or downplay evidence for human-caused climate change. The study by researchers from the U.S., China, France and Germany concluded, “ocean warming […]
Extinction Rebellion: From the UK to Ghana and the US, Climate Activists Take Civil Disobedience World-Wide
Extinction Rebellion: From the UK to Ghana and the US, Climate Activists Take Civil Disobedience World-Wide More than 100 people were arrested during a week of action across the UK as protesters demanded the government treat the threats posed by climate change as a crisis and take drastic steps to cut emissions to net zero […]
‘Time is Running Out,’ American Petroleum Institute Chief Said in 1965 Speech on Climate Change
‘Time is Running Out,’ American Petroleum Institute Chief Said in 1965 Speech on Climate Change The warning is clear and dire — and the source unexpected. “This report unquestionably will fan emotions, raise fears, and bring demand for action,” the president of the American Petroleum Institute (API) told an oil industry conference, as he described […]
Matthew and Sarah Elliott: How a UK Power Couple Links US Libertarians and Fossil Fuel Lobbyists to Brexit
Matthew and Sarah Elliott: How a UK Power Couple Links US Libertarians and Fossil Fuel Lobbyists to Brexit If you have detected a distinctly American flavour to the rampant lobbying in Westminster corridors over a Brexit deal, there is a good reason why. A close look at the transatlantic connections of the London-based groups pushing for […]
What Terrible Injustices Are Hiding Behind American Energy Habits?
What Terrible Injustices Are Hiding Behind American Energy Habits? When someone charges a cellphone or flips on the lights, what costs are felt by the far-off communities that produced the coal or gas powering that home? What happens to those same communities when a utility decides to switch from coal power to natural gas? And […]
Peak Shale: Is the US Fracking Industry Already in Decline?
Peak Shale: Is the US Fracking Industry Already in Decline? In 2016, lower oil prices led to an overall drop in production for shale companies, which use horizontal drilling and fracking to extract oil and gas from shale formations such as the Marcellus and Permian. This was one of the few relatively positive financial periods for […]
A Field Guide to the Petrochemical and Plastics Industry
A Field Guide to the Petrochemical and Plastics Industry The shale gas industry has been trying to build demand for fossil fuels from its fracked oil and gas wells by promoting the construction of a new petrochemical corridor in America’s Rust Belt and expanding the corridor on the Gulf Coast. To help demystify terms like “natural […]
Why Canadian Tar Sands Oil May Be Doomed
Why Canadian Tar Sands Oil May Be Doomed At current prices, Canadian tar sands oil producers are losing money on every barrel of oil they dig out. Despite signs earlier this year the industry would “turn profitable in 2018,” a much more likely scenario at this point is a fourth straight year of losses. Producers are forced […]
Big Oil Cheers Trump’s ‘New NAFTA’ But Mexico Could Complicate Things
Big Oil Cheers Trump’s ‘New NAFTA’ But Mexico Could Complicate Things While the oil and gas industry has lauded the new trade deal that may soon replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a provision added by Mexico, along with its new president’s plan to ban fracking, could complicate the industry’s rising ambitions there. The new agreement, […]
US Oil Exports Are Exceeding Almost All Predictions—Thanks to Fracking
US Oil Exports Are Exceeding Almost All Predictions—Thanks to Fracking The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported in September that crude oil exports are continuing to set records, mostly due to the fracking boom in the Permian Basin, in Texas and New Mexico. June exports hit a record 2.2 million barrels per day, while the monthly average was up […]
