Politics, Re-Spun: More Clever Climate Change Awareness Actions!
…Burning oil caused the melting in the first place… A week ago [was it that long?] two climate change activists pulled a Yes Men on our greatest employee, Mr. Stephen Harper. But last summer, you may...
View ArticleCowichan Conversations: The Ukraine Crisis – It Is All About Control of Oil...
Cold War propaganda has been ratcheted up considerably as the US continues its efforts to gain control and influence in the region that began a decade ago. Exxon, Shell and Chevron have invested...
View Article350 or bust: LEGO: Everything is NOT Awesome
Via Greenpeace International: Shell’s global advertising deal with LEGO is part of a carefully thought-out strategy by Shell to buy friends who can make its controversial Arctic drilling plans look...
View ArticleThings Are Good: Rockefellers Got Rich From Oil, Switching to Renewables
As the UN climate summit continues there is good news coming from it. It’s worth noting that Canada is not part of any of this good news thanks to the climate-change denying Prime Minister Stephen...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: The Enemy Within. At Some Point You Have to Take Sides.
Don’t waste your breath. It’s futile to try to work with energy giants on environmental issues at least according to one of Britain’s leading environmentalists, Jonathon Porritt, who has thrown in...
View ArticleThings Are Good: Shell Stops Efforts to Drill in the Arctic
For a while now Shell has been trying to suck oil in the arctic. Arctic drilling is extremely dangerous and Shell’s efforts in the north have been ridiculed by Greenpeace. Greenpeace’s efforts have...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: OMG! Energy industry faces ‘existential threat’ from...
PHOTOS: Brad Wall, increasingly the Mr. Disagreeable of Confederation. Below: Calgary’s Glenmore Reservoir as dreamed of by supporters of the Saskatchewan Party of Alberta. Actual Calgary beaches may...
View ArticleViews from the Beltline: Shell bails on the tar sands
I read with interest Royal Dutch Shell’s decision to sell sell most of its stake in Alberta’s tar sands. It brought back memories. I toiled for Shell Canada during my days in the oil patch and the last...
View ArticleViews from the Beltline: Shell bails on the tar sands
I read with interest Royal Dutch Shell’s decision to sell sell most of its stake in Alberta’s tar sands. It brought back memories. I toiled for Shell Canada during my days in the oil patch, now a long...
View ArticleViews from the Beltline: The pecten transitions
All those years ago when I earned my keep in the oil patch, I was fortunate to toil for Shell Canada. I was paid well, enjoyed generous benefits and excellent training opportunities, progressed...
View ArticleThings Are Good: Dutch Climate Lawyer Wins Dresden Peace Prize
Yes, a lawyer won a peace prize. Roger Cox, a Dutch climate lawyer who took on Shell, has been awarded the 2022 Dresden Peace Prize for winning a case that inspired similar cases around the world. On...
View ArticleViews from the Beltline: The greening of big oil
A headline in The New York Times caused me to do a double-take. The headline read “Shell, the Oil Giant, Will Sell Renewable Energy to Texans.” The term “renewable energy” nestled between “oil giant”...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Umair Haque discusses the absurdity (and manufactured idiocy) that results in us continuing with extractive business as usual as we enter a palpable age of...
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