Oil Industry

The tar sands blow 0
Posted 1 week, 2 days ago
Media stunner

Newsweek partners with oil lobby to raise ad cash 0
Posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago Newsweek to host energy and climate events with lawmakers -- while publishing the uber-greenwashing story, “Big Oil Goes Green for Real.”
Climate law update

A victory for Katrina victims; a defeat for Alaskan villagers 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago A federal appeals court has reversed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by victims of Hurricane Katrina seeking damages related to global warming, while a federal district court in California has dismissed a similar lawsuit brought by an Alaskan village allegedly disappearing beneath rising sea levels.
Over a barrel

Exploring the extreme frontiers of oil drilling 2
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago To witness firsthand the world’s most extreme drilling territory -- the Mount Everest of oil frontiers -- Amanda Little took a 175-mile helicopter trip to Chevron's "Cajun Express" oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. "I found the whole enterprise of deep-sea drilling doggedly ambitious, but also seemingly desperate—like an addict forcing a syringe into the earth’s innermost veins," she writes. Of course, the director of Chevron’s offshore drilling divisions sees it differently, as he explains while giving Little a tour of the rig. This is the second installment in a series of exclusive excerpts from "Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells—Our Ride to the Renewable Future."
Is the global oil tank half-full, is it half-empty … or are we running on fumes? 1
Posted 2 months ago In his article in the New York Times Sept. 24, “Oil Industry Sets a Brisk Pace of New Discoveries,” staff reporter Jad Mouawad cites oil discoveries totaling 10 billion barrels for the first half of 2009.
the crude cost of fuel

Two new documentaries—‘Crude’ and ‘Fuel’—examine two sides of our petroleum problem 2
Posted 2 months ago Crude and Fuel, two new documentaries, show the damaging effects of the world's addiction to oil, each film from its own unique angle.
You're not from around here, are you?

‘Localwashing’ in pictures—bogus marketing at its finest 32
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
"Local" is hot, so big businesses are muscling into the game. Citgo, Wal-Mart, Barnes & Noble, and Starbucks are just a few of the giants caught "localwashing."
the perils of mixing oil and water

Sen. Landrieu’s plan to export Louisiana’s coastal destruction to Florida 2
Posted 3 months ago
While Louisiana struggles to restore coastal wetlands ravaged in large part by decades of oil and gas drilling, its senior senator is leading the effort to lift the ban on drilling off Florida's Panhandle.
Grown up talk from Big Oil

This “Energy Citizen” also wants a word 1
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
As an employee of the energy sector for nearly 30 years, this "world Energy Citizen" also wants a word.
what's it wirth to you?

Timothy Wirth, natural-gas advocate, takes gas industry to task 3
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
In a blunt speech before the Colorado Oil and Gas Association last week, Timothy Wirth, a former Colorado Democratic senator and Under Secretary of State for global affairs in the Clinton administration, warned industry leaders that they need to pay attention to the environmental and climate concerns that are shaping national policy, or risk being left behind.