At least one Canadian is making sense about the nation's horrifically bad energy and environmental policies: Neil Young kicked off his four-date “Honour the Treaties” tour of Canada on Sunday with some fighting words about the rapid expansion of oilsands development in northern Alberta, saying...
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In my forthcoming book on capital mobility, I'm dedicating a chapter to energy production. It details how we can follow Americans' interest in the costs of energy production based upon.
Were one to want to work a job where your life and safety are consistently in danger and where you can live with the constant threat of pollution, one could.
This essay on Obama campaign staffers finding his likely approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline deeply disturbing and conflicting is really interesting, not because of what the story says but because of the unsaid implications. Basically, Obama's Organizing for Action group attempts to translate the...
Doesn't this just make you feel confident that the Keystone XL pipeline won't lead to horrible oil spills? Of course, it's not like the pipeline will run through any land.
In Carson, California, Shell Oil used to have an oil tank farm. Then, thanks to America's lax environmental regulatory state, a housing development was built on top of it when.
Like the role Ommegang has played in fighting fracking in New York, I am glad to see Bell's Brewery take on the tar sands company Enbridge after an oil spill near the brewery dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River...
One big reason for the Keystone XL Pipeline coming through the United States is that Canadians outside of Texas Alberta don't want it themselves. That is especially true in the.
On March 29, an ExxonMobil pipeline carrying oil from Canadian tar sands ruptured in the town of Mayflower, Arkansas, northwest of Little Rock. Between 5000 and 7000 barrels of oil.
I love classic capitalist propaganda. Take for example, 1956's "Destination Earth." A cartoon produced by the American Petroleum Institute, it shows that oil + competition=getting rid of that dastardly Stalin Ogg, leader of Mars. CNBC and Fox are pretty lame capitalist propagandists compared to this.
Too often, including in the comments at this blog, the idea that labor unions and environmentalists have irreconcilable goals goes unchallenged. But there is in fact significant common ground. Over.
The Obama Administration Obama Administration's appointees in the State Department announces its approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline at 4 pm on Sequester Friday. How brave. Disaster for the climate..