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15/5/2013
As the debate over the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline continues in the United States, a Canadian
trade delegation is insisting that Canadian oil extracted from
tar sands - the product that would be transported by an expanded pipeline - ...
12/5/2013
In no other industry today is it more obvious to see the culmination of affects of social, political, economic, and ecological instability than in the global production of food. As a defining characteristic of civilization itself, it is no wonder ...
27/4/2013
As the great research ship Chikyu left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard realized they might be closing the door on Winston Churchill’s world. Their ...
17/4/2013
We have far more oil, coal and gas than we can safely burn. For all the millions of words written about climate change, the challenge really comes down to this: fuel is enormously useful, massively valuable and hugely important geopolitically, ...
1/4/2013
Tara Lohan author of Water Matters: Why We Need to Act Now to Save Our Most Critical Resource interviews Richard Heinberg about ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth.
If you want to understand how much energy costs, ...
19/3/2013
Germany's largest and most prestigious research institute has pulled out of a Canadian government-funded CAN$25 million research project into sustainable solutions to
tar sands pollution, citing fears for its environmental reputation.
As ...
3/2/2013
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has vilified political opponents who support a tax on carbon-dioxide emissions. The oil-sands industry, Canada’s fastest growing CO2 polluter, says he’s out of step.
The contradiction of an industry ...
29/1/2013
Canada's urgent hunt for buyers for its oil is being thwarted as the
European Commission sticks to a plan to label fuel from
tar sands deposits as highly polluting, deterring refiners bound by environmental rules.
Intense pressure from ...
24/1/2013
One of the biggest surprises in President Barack Obama’s second inaugural address this week was the prominence given to climate change, marking it as a signature issue for his second term.
The president spoke of the need to preserve the ...
29/11/2012
A list of popular villains from the 2009 climate talks in Copenhagen would almost certainly include Canada and China. Justly or not, both countries took much of the blame for the failure of the planet's leaders to negotiate a binding global ...
5/11/2012
"Drill, baby, drill," said Sarah Palin. "Energy independence," say Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. It seems to mean more or less the same thing. (If Romney wins, it will be more, if Obama wins less.) Both advocate more oil and gas drilling on land ...
29/10/2012
Just three short years ago, it appeared that North America was on the verge of finally kicking that nasty dirty energy addiction that has been crippling our economy and energy independence. The U.S. had elected a President Barack Obama who set ...
1/7/2012
Repairman Shawn Flett stood 30 feet above the ground on the deck of a truck the size of a house. He had just waved it gingerly into the repair shop as if guiding an airplane into a hangar.This is a beast of a machine, with 14-foot tires ...
21/3/2012
Three months ago, Connie Hedegaard,
Europe’s climate commissioner, emerged triumphant from the international climate negotiations in Durban after she pieced together a well-regarded deal just as the talks seemed on the verge of ...
23/2/2012
Years of fierce lobbying against draft EU rules that would label fuel from
tar sands as more polluting than from other sources produced a stalemate on Thursday when a committee of technical experts failed to agree on the proposal.
The ...
23/2/2012
Canada hailed the
European Union's failure on Thursday to classify
tar sands crude as particularly dirty, but Ottawa made it clear it would take
trade action if the EU did end up singling out Canadian oil.
A meeting of EU technical ...
23/2/2012
An EU vote on Thursday on a draft law to label fuel from
tar sands as highly polluting is likely to produce a stalemate, EU sources said, marking a draw in a long lobbying tussle between oil giant Canada and environmentalists.
Among ...
23/2/2012
The
European Union failed to label oil produced from
tar sands as highly polluting on Thursday, with a key vote by member states ending in deadlock.
The issue is seen as a key test of the EU's ability to implement its climate change ...
23/2/2012
A fierce battle over whether the
European Union will officially label oil produced from
tar sands as highly polluting comes to a head on Thursday with a crucial vote.
The issue is seen as a key test of the EU's ability to implement its ...
21/2/2012
It's shaping up to be a crucial week in climate politics.
At the centre stands the EU, cast, in this guise, as climate champion - determined to take a small step towards charging airlines for the full environmental costs of flying, and ...
20/2/2012
Canada has threatened a
trade war with
European Union over the bloc's plan to label oil from Alberta's vast
tar sands as highly polluting, the Guardian can reveal, before a key vote in Brussels on 23 February.
"Canada will not hesitate ...
28/1/2012
Global warming due to human-made gases, mainly CO2, is already 0.8°C and deleterious climate impacts are growing worldwide. More warming is "in the pipeline" because Earth is out of energy balance, with absorbed solar energy exceeding planetary ...
13/1/2012
Concerns are growing in Brussels that persistent denial of human-caused global warming among Republican presidential hopefuls could damage EU-US relations and even spark a
trade conflict.
All the leading challengers for the White House ...
27/11/2011
The UK government has been giving secret support at the very highest levels to Canada's campaign against
European penalties on its highly polluting
tar sands fuel, the Guardian can reveal.
At the same time, the UK government was being ...
3/11/2011
A
European Union plan to charge airlines for their carbon emissions has made unlikely allies of China and the United States in a
trade dispute which underlines a failure in climate leadership by the world's top two emitters.
Their ...