Argentina Proposes Nationalization of Biggest Oil Company. Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has proposed a bill to seize back major oil shares from the country's biggest oil company YPF, owned by Spain's Repsol.
The move is facing aggressive opposition from the corporation and from the Spanish government, threatening that Argentina will become "an international pariah". Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner holds a test tube containing petrol during a ceremony at the Casa Rosada presidential palace in Buenos Aires April 16, 2012. Shell Oil Sues Environmentalists Over Arctic Drilling. Groups Galvanize Against US Senate with 24 Hour 'Signature Bomb' Beginning at noon today, a coalition of over a dozen environmental groups, progressive organizations, and socially minded businesses -- including 350.org, NRDC, Sierra Club, MoveOn.org and companies like Patagonia and Northface -- are launching a 24 hour “signature bomb” with the goal of sending the Senate over 500,000 messages opposing Keystone XL and urging Senators to block any amendments that reverse the President's pipeline rejection.
UPDATE: (4:35 PM EST) According to reports: Senate Republicans officially filed an amendment Monday afternoon to the transportation bill that would authorize the Keystone XL pipeline. Valentine’s Day March Planned at Senator Chuck Schumer’s Office. Activism Published on February 13th, 2012 | by Don Lieber Chuck Schumer, via Wikimedia Commons.
(Credit: U.S. Kyra Sedgwick Makes Desperate Attempt To Block U.S. Keystone Pipeline. SOPA Blackout Was Biggest Online Protest In History, Backers Say. IP-Watch Interns Summer 2013 IP-Watch interns Brittany Ngo (Yale Graduate School of Public Health) and Caitlin McGivern (University of Law, London) talk about their Geneva experience in summer 2013. 2:42.
‘Citizens United’: A Supreme Court decision that is widely misunderstood. Two years ago this weekend the Roberts Supreme Court issued its most controversial ruling to date.
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission overturned long-standing campaign finance laws restricting corporate political expenditures, reasoning that the political speech of corporations was as important to the marketplace of ideas as the voices of human citizens. The poor are the Americans no one wants to talk about. The political debates on free markets or the privileges of the 1 percent seldom touch on the actual struggles of citizens — say, living in the shadow of foreclosure, or attending a failing school, or surviving in a gang-occupied neighborhood.
Ideology is abstract. Hardship is lived concretely. Aptera Motors Is Shutting Down. Canada: Climate Criminal. At the dawn of the 21st century a new political regime has transformed Canada from global hero – once standing up for peace, people, and nature – to global criminal, plunging into war, eroding civil rights, and destroying environments.
What happened to Canada? Oil. Separate oil and state. Forget being responsible to the desires of Canadians and democratic process (remember Bill C-311?).
On the energy and climate change file, the Harper government is more responsible to the desires of industry and tar sands advocates, working together to promote a false image of the tar sands and lash out at critics. Here are, but three examples (this blog could go on and on and on, like the blog that never ends…) Funding from 'foreign special interest groups' This recent news is so full of contradictions, it makes my head spin.
Does the finger-pointing at environmental groups by Prime Minister Harper and Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver sound familiar? Multinational oil companies are hijacking Canadian energy decisions. Rather than preparing to listen respectfully to community members in British Columbia, the Canadian federal government is acting as a spokesperson for Big Oil accusing opponents of the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline of being “radicals” and “foreigners.”
When it comes to tar sands pipelines, multinational oil companies are hijacking a Canadian process with a recent series of accusations from tar sands interests trying to minimize the very valid Canadian public concerns. The Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline would bring tar sands oil west from Alberta across British Columbia for export to Asia and California. It will drive tar sands expansion, accelerate global warming, and put globally important rivers and coastal ecosystems under threat. Rebecca Tarbotton: Top Five Ways to Change the World in 2012. 2011 saw more people power than I could have dared to hope.
Canada's Northern Gateway Pipeline. Pipeline politics: Don’t demonize the charitable sector. Efforts by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Natural Resources Minister to characterize charitable organizations as dangerous radicals assaulting the national interest is far removed from the truth. Such dubious claims reflect either a willful ignorance of the truth or a willingness to bend it to favour their own interests. Particularly heinous to Mr. The Expert's Report that Damns the Northern Gateway Pipeline. Veteran energy analyst David Hughes calculates three reasons the project is bad for Canada. Enbridge pipeline construction in the Athabasca region. Source: Enbridge. A slide presentation by geologist David Hughes includes charts showing the wide discrepancy between commonly accepted growth scenarios for the Alberta oil sands, and significantly higher projections put forth by Enbridge and other proponents of fast build-out of oil sands infrastructure.
The slides also include satellite views of the oil sands showing growth over nearly three decades. McMahon Is Wrong About Keystone Pipeline. By Ben Martin | Jan 13, 2012 11:59am (19) Comments | Commenting has expired Posted to: Opinion Recently Linda McMahon declared that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is in the national interest and described it as a “gift horse”. She is wrong. It is neither. A more accurate description of the project would be a “poison pill” or a “dirty needle used to feed our oil addiction.” The jobs figures Ms. According to studies conducted by the US State Department and Cornell University’s Global Labor Institute, these figures come from a study funded by TransCanada (the company proposing Keystone XL) and are wildly inflated.
Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline is Not a Jobs Plan, But an Oil Export Plan. By Climate Guest Contributor on January 13, 2012 at 4:52 pm "Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline is Not a Jobs Plan, But an Oil Export Plan"