With 80% of the world's fossil fuel reserves 'unburnable' if the world is to meet its climate targets, writes Melanie Mattauch, the divestment movement is moving from strength to strength. As investor confidence in fossil energy ebbs away, 2015 is where the endgame for a dying industry begins.
… fracking, tar sands, the Arctic and deep water marine wells - is already a loss-making …
The Environmental Audit Committee today calls for shale fracking in the UK to be 'put on hold', writes Paul Mobbs. But the EAC is missing an even more dangerous technology that the Infrastructure Bill would support - underground coal gasification.
… occurring' radioactivity in flowback water is safe. It also makes some error in its … to give rise to the greatest risks from groundwater pollution and seismic activity . Third … here is not the source of the wastewater - it's that this application could set a …
ExxonMobil has been funding high quality science while also funding and supporting climate denial. So should scientists continue to accept money from oil companies and other vested interests? KATHARINE HAYHOE, a climate science professor, discusses her own early ExxonMobil funding and the ethical issues it raises
… by coal mining and natural gas leaks; wastewater treatment plants; farting and belching … and then used its leverage to muddy the waters on what scientists know about climate. …
Left wing governments across the Americas are faced with a dilemma, writes Daniel Macmillen - high social spending programs financed by income from destructive mining and hydrocarbon extraction - or a slower but sustainable development path that puts ecology, equity and justice first. Their answer - a constant pushing back of the resource frontier.
… care of the human species so it has work, water, sewers ... " Yet the suggested dilemma …
Low oil prices are putting a stop to some of the world's most environmentally damaging 'extreme energy' projects, writes Paul Mobbs, and may close down the entire fracking and tar sands industries. So why are so many 'Greens' issuing dire warnings, instead of celebrating the good news?
… the Niger Delta, to the Arctic, to the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, to fracking - is …
Mission accomplished in Iraq? It is now, writes Mike Whitney. A million deaths on, a once peaceful, independent country has been transformed into a petro-economy of never ending civil chaos and terror, where multinational oil corporations rule supreme.
… hospitals, leveled its cities, polluted its water, spread diseases everywhere, killed its …