Oil Change International June 2017 Download the PDF Briefing. The Alberta tar sands are among the world’s largest oil reserves. While investment and expected growth in the industry have been high for the last decade, new industry data paints a dramatically different picture of the sector moving forward. Key findings: Anticipated tar sands production growth is … Read More
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Rebel Media: From Promoting Tar Sands and Climate Denial to “Bigoted Lunatics”
Reading or watching videos from someone like Ezra Levant, a man who used to sell cigarettes, should come with a health warning.
CAPP’s Fictional Forecast – What Pipe are They Puffing?
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers’ “data” claiming a need for pipelines looks increasingly far-fetched the more one looks into it.
When will Exxon will be worthless? Not if.
These are dizzying days. Our best advice is to stay woke, and pay attention. As we prepare for a day that will revolve around Trump’s Rose Garden speech to Make America Guzzle&Gush Again, it is worth taking a moment to focus on the amazing events in the background over the last few days: Kinder Morgan’s … Read More
REACTION: Oil Change Int’l reacts to report from Canada’s Auditor General on fossil fuel subsidies
“Canada’s Auditor General revealed today that 8 years after the government promised to phase out fossil subsidies, there is still no game plan to do so,” said Oil Change International’s Alex Doukas in a statement released today.
Living Up to Its Potential: Demanding Climate Leadership from Canada
Canada doesn’t have its story straight on climate change – which makes it all the more important to push the country to be the real climate leader we need.
Telling it like it is: the numbers behind Justin Trudeau’s climate failure
In a hard hitting opinion piece in the Guardian today, Bill McKibben doesn’t mince words when it comes to Canada’s Prime Minister. Everyone seems to love Justin Trudeau. Charismatic, young, and rhetorically committed to a suite of progressive issues – compared to his counterpart to the south, he has a lot going for him. But, … Read More
Canada Takes First Step to Cut Fossil Fuel Handouts – Thanks to People Power
The clean energy picture got a little bit brighter in Canada last week, after the 2017 budget started chipping away at the $1.6 billion in federal subsidies to oil and gas companies each year.
Due to KXL’s “Hefty Financial Risk”, Will it Ever be Built?
For those fighting the KXL pipeline, there are important lessons to learn from recent events. First that Trump is defeatible. The man who has made a career of being an Alpha-male bully in business is now finding the reality of politics very different.
RELEASE: Oil Change Int’l responds to Trump approval of Keystone XL permit
“Keystone XL has been seen as inevitable before, but we persisted and won. This isn’t game over, it’s game on. Now we have a President who is deeply beholden to the oil industry and will do anything they ask, so this approval is no surprise.”