Tag: Oil

‘We are probably going to have to resist one pipeline at a time for many decades to come, and maybe longer,’ a Cherokee researcher tells MintPress as a Ramapough Lunaape chief says, ‘We need help now.’

The incoming president has picked climate change deniers and pro-fossil fuel bigwigs for cabinet positions.

The rush comes after the Foreign Office last year talked up the opportunities for British business of a melting Arctic.

The reality is that there are fundamental structural problems with BP’s and other oil majors’ growth-led business model.

The spread of fracking across the U.S. over the last decade has been damaging to our environment and health, and it’s time to put a stop to the practice and start healing the damage.

Perhaps it would be more prudent for Gov. Mary Fallin and the Republican-dominated legislature to stop praying to the oil industry and start passing laws to make their state’s oil billionaires pay their fair share of taxes.

It’s the Keystone XL Pipeline all over again.

“Environmentalists worry that an increase in oil trains could lead to a rise in oil train derailments, but witnesses that testified before the EFSEC on behalf of Vancouver Energy say oil spills might not actually be that bad for the environment.”

“While no known municipal treatment plants currently accept fracking waste, the option could have become more attractive to drillers as standards tightened on other waste disposal methods.”

With a Busted Business Model, Oil Economies Head for the Unknown