Former vice-president says oil pipeline is ‘really a losing proposition’ and demands climate plan promised at inauguration . . . → Read More: Al Gore says Obama must veto ‘atrocity’ of Keystone XL tar sands pipeline
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Oil, gas and mining companies must sign up to new accounting and transparency directives for sums of more than €100,000 . . . → Read More: EU’s new laws will oblige extractive industries to disclose payments
Australians could be sitting on more than 1,000tn cubic feet of untapped gas, study finds, but lacks infrastructure to exploit it . . . → Read More: Australia has huge deposits of shale gas – but it won’t come cheap
EU’s executive arm accuses China of selling panels below-cost and threatening 25,000 jobs in the European solar industry . . . → Read More: EU to impose anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese solar panels
Terminals near London and in Wales were 40% and 52% full on the day it was claimed the UK had six hours’ worth of gas left . . . → Read More: Energy suppliers held back gas during UK shortage
The fuel could become a ‘new North Sea’ energy business, and create more than 70,000 jobs, according to a new report . . . → Read More: Shale gas investments ‘could be worth £4bn a year to UK economy’
Stephen Harper’s administration has increased spend from $9m to $16.5m in the last year . . . → Read More: Canadian government doubles advertising spend on tar sands
Leaked papers show UK rejects proposal to classify oil from tar sands as highly polluting, a label that would deter EU countries from importing it . . . → Read More: UK signals support for EU import of Canadian tar sands oil
Social media shows hundreds gathering in southern city of Kunming as officials deny refinery will produce carcinogen PX . . . → Read More: Chinese protest at planned chemical plant over pollution fears
City councils and local activists have stymied shale gas mining in New York, and could prove an example for others to follow . . . → Read More: Grassroots campaigns can stop fracking one town at a time |
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