Category: #FossilFuels

Pregnant polar bears enter dens when they give birth for up to eight months. The process makes bear moms super vulnerable—they fast, surviving off the…

In a stunning win for the environmental justice movement, a court just ordered that the Dakota Access Pipeline must be shut down. Read more… Source:…

The climate column: If the aviation industry can have almost permanent access to the Treasury, transport ministers and the media, it is time climate protection…

Fighting moves from west to centre and south of country, as Egypt advances toward border, and Tripoli ignores truce calls Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/libya-war-tripoli-haftar-russia-turkey-gna-a9554976.html Droolin’ Dog sniffed…

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allied oil producers, led by Russia, have agreed to prolong record oil production cuts until the end…

Vladimir Putin chastises billionaire owner of power plant for negligence Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-oil-spill-arctic-leak-putin-river-norilsk-nickel-a9551751.html Droolin’ Dog sniffed out this story and shared it with you. The Article…

President lambasts power plant owner ‘for not reporting earlier’ incident bigger than Kerch spill Vladimir Putin has ordered a state of emergency after 20,000 tonnes…

The world has to move away from fossil fuels. And a new study lays out a roadmap for how to do it in a fair…

Bank restrictions on the financing of oil and gas drilling in the Arctic are akin to past practices —known as redlining — of not loaning…

Natural gas producers could soon be about to fight out a battle for market share in which prices could fall to negative levels until some…

Enlarge (credit: Daxis) The US electrical grid is in the middle of a remarkable streak that is partly the story of the rise of renewables,…

‘If it had to happen, it couldn’t have happened in a better place,’ resident says Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kentucky-fleming-county-explosion-gas-pipeline-fire-a9500441.html Droolin’ Dog sniffed out this story and shared…

Land is to be auctioned across western states including parcels close to the Arches and Canyonlands national parks, home of dramatic red-rock landscapes Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/trump-fossil-fuel-coronavirus-oil-price-fall-us-public-lands-a9493101.html…

The coronavirus has sent oil demand plummeting, and it may never return to where it once was. In a stunning admission, Shell CFO Jessica Uhl…

Fort McMurray is under evacuation for the second time in four years. The Albertan town was besieged by a huge wildfire in 2016, but now…

Closure of fossil-fuel plants and fall in demand due to Covid-19 sees CO2 emissions cut by one-third Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/coal-free-power-generation-grid-climate-crisis-fossil-fuels-coronavirus-lockdown-a9487571.html Droolin’ Dog sniffed out this story…

China doubled the fill rate at its strategic and commercial inventories in Q1 2020, taking advantage of the low oil prices and somewhat supporting the…

As the coronavirus pandemic stretches into 2020, the cost of crude oil plummeted to less than $0 per barrel on Monday.  What does that mean?…

BP’s Deepwater Horizon platform exploded 10 years ago today, but the Gulf of Mexico may never be the same. That’s especially true for the deep…

Scientists have spent a decade researching the impact of the oil spill, one of the largest environmental disasters in US history, on marine life in…

With drilling grinding to a halt, output has slumped as “legacy” production declines take hold in some of the US’ largest shale basins. Oil and…