Posts Tagged with "oil"

Time To End $122 Billion In Taxpayer Handouts To Fossil Fuels

Thursday, October 6, 2011

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Time To End $122 Billion In Taxpayer Handouts To Fossil Fuels

Say you live next door to a polluting factory that is poisoning you and your family, and you decide to stop buying whatever that factory makes, voting for alternatives with your dollar. How would you feel if the owners of that factory then went and bought off as many politicians as possible so that they [...]

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Wikileaks Cables Make A Bad Week For Chevron Even Worse

Thursday, September 22, 2011

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Wikileaks Cables Make A Bad Week For Chevron Even Worse

Earlier this week, a New York appeals court toppled the legal house of cards Chevron built to shield itself from having to clean up its oil contamination in the Ecuadorean Amazon. Now a series of diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks has gone and made what was already a very bad week for Chevron even worse. [...]

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Chevron’s Legal Strategy Derailed, Ecuadoreans Score Major Victory

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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Chevron’s Legal Strategy Derailed, Ecuadoreans Score Major Victory

Yesterday, Chevron’s legal strategy to evade cleaning up its oil pollution in Ecuador went off the rails. An appeals court in New York lifted a ban on the $18 billion judgment against the company for contaminating the Amazon. The decision comes after a hearing last Friday in which Chevron’s lawyers were all but laughed out [...]

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Drawing A Line In The Tar Sands

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

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Drawing A Line In The Tar Sands

tipping point  (tɪpɪŋ point) — n  the crisis stage in a process, when a significant change takes place This last week, I went to Washington D.C. and joined the Tar Sands Action, the biggest environmental mass action in a generation. Over a thousand were arrested calling on Obama to deny the permits for the Keystone [...]

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“Everest Of Dirty Money” Launches Pro-Keystone XL Effort – A Partnership To Pollute America

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

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“Everest Of Dirty Money” Launches Pro-Keystone XL Effort – A Partnership To Pollute America

“The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the Everest of dirty money.” — Bill McKibben, Powershift 2011 Have you heard of the Partnership to Fuel America? It sounds innocent enough, but it’s actually a campaign launched by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to promote the Keystone XL oil pipeline. The U.S. Chamber would like you to [...]

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Breaking: “Ethical Oil” Campaign Uses Stolen, Faked Photos

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

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Breaking: “Ethical Oil” Campaign Uses Stolen, Faked Photos

Canadian Conservative acolyte Alykhan Velshi made headlines last month with a set of bombastic ads contrasting the virtues of Canada’s “ethical oil” with the evils of “conflict oil countries.” Leading political heavyweights — including Environment Minister Peter Kent — have also adopted the mantra. But a look behind the latest “ethical oil” campaign raises a [...]

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In Case You Were Wondering: Yes, Chevron Still Thinks We’re All Stupid

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

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In Case You Were Wondering: Yes, Chevron Still Thinks We’re All Stupid

Chevron’s attempts to greenwash its image while doing nothing to take responsibility for its environmental and human rights abuses around the globe continue unabated. So we decided to re-launch ChevronThinksWereStupid.org last week to provide concerned citizens like you with a fun and engaging platform to call out Chevron’s misleading PR campaigns. At virtually the same [...]

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Thus Far and No Further: Gulf Coast and Arizona Activists Fight Back

Monday, August 8, 2011

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There are all kinds of action camps planned this month that will be challenging the root causes of climate change— i.e. the fossil fuel industry—in the Midwest, Southeast and Pacific Northwest. August is already sizzling with small groups of environmental and Indigenous rights minded people stepping up and putting their bodies on the line to [...]

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Top Scientists to President: Tar Sands Oil “Does Not Make Sense To Exploit”

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

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Top Scientists to President: Tar Sands Oil “Does Not Make Sense To Exploit”

In a letter released today, twenty top scientists wrote to President Obama to ask him to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, the 1,700 mile-long fuse that, if lit, could help ignite climate chaos. If built, the pipeline would carry bitumen from Canada to the Gulf Coast, putting fresh water supplies at risk and further increasing [...]

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Just Do It

Monday, August 1, 2011

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This is better than Harry Potter. Film maker Emily James has documented the emergence of a bold grassroots climate movement in the UK in her new film “Just Do It.” They are sick of waiting on politicians, lobbyists and international bodies to change the world and end climate change, so these folks are taking action [...]

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