Romney’s new energy plan is billed as a drive towards “energy independence”—yet ironically mirrors the plan Obama unveiled two years ago to lift current restrictions on offshore drilling.
We noted earlier this year that the Canadian government is holding out the threat of selling the Alberta tar sands oil to China through the Northern Gateway pipeline that Enbridge Inc hopes to build to the British Columbia coast as… Read moreKeystone vs Enbridge: race or stratagem?
It hasn’t won the merest fraction of the coverage enjoyed by the London Olympics, but last week’s massive Chevron oil refinery fire in Richmond, Calif., sent hundreds of people rushing to hospitals, darkened the skies over East Bay, and has… Read moreChevron fire: how many more?
Ecologists held direct actions against Scottish Coal’s Mainshill Open Cast Coal Site and BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam uranium mine in South Australia—as miners from Asturias marched on Madrid against planned mine closures.
Planet Earth reaching 7 billion people unleashed a tsunami of Malthusian claptrap. Now a new study documents that the problem is the sheer acreage of human flesh, not how many bodies it is distributed amongst.
Media are suddenly full of voices plugging hydro-fracking as the key to finally achieving US "energy independence"—in undoubted response to a drop in energy consumption, and to modest federal efforts to regulate the industry.
Campesino groups around the world planned arches and land occupations to mark the International Day of Campesino Struggles, demanding agrarian reform and an end to land-grabbing by rich landowners.
Supposed ecological crusader and Avatar creator James Cameron, along with Google heavies Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, is among the “investor and advisor group” of Planetary Resources Inc—which aims to start mining the asteroids.
With the Keystone pipeline to the US stalled, Canada’s government is pushing a new Pacific route from the Alberta tar sands fields for export to China. But First Nations in the proposed pipelines’ path oppose both routes.
A group of 40 women of the Innu indigenous nation in northern Quebec have launched a cross-country march on Montreal to protest the provincial government’s Plan Nord, a mega-project that would open the north to mining and energy companies.
The Director of National Intelligence released a report warning that competition for increasingly scarce water in the next decade will fuel instability in the Middle East, South Asia and other strategic regions around the world.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the nation’s first Clean Air Act standard for carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants. But ecologists protest that existing plants are grandfathered in, among other loopholes.
