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Is the U.S. trying to strongarm EU to accept petroleum products from Alberta’s oil sands

July 30, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

It’s being reported by the IPS News Agency documents suggest the U.S. government is trying to prevent a landmark regulatory proposal in the European Union aimed at addressing climate change. Environmentalists, working off of documents released through open government requests, say U.S. trade representatives are responding to frustrations voiced by the oil and gas industry.  […]

Filed Under: International, News Tagged With: Bill Waren, Canadian government.oil sands, Chevron, Climate Change, European Union, ExxonMobil, Friends of the Earth, Fuel Quality Directive, oil industry, tar sands, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP, U.S. government, world’s largest free-trade area

Protest stalls ExxonMobile operations abroad

July 13, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

By spill standards and protests – neither one was large, but it’s possible a point was still made. A dozen barrels of oil had spilled on ExxonMobil property at Ekat in Nigeria. After that about 500 forced operations to grind to a halt at the oil companies airstrip. For the protestors this last incident was […]

Filed Under: International, News Tagged With: Ekat, ExxonMobil, Nigeria, pipeline, protest, Safety, spill

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