The Tree | (Content for Climate Communicators) | – – Instead of draining the swamp as promised, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is doing the opposite, appointing powerful fossil fuel executives and dirty energy cheerleaders to top posts within his cabinet. Trump is filling the swamp to overflow, promoting candidates with serious conflicts of interests to […]
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Petroleum
Trump’s Sec of State pick Tillerson chief of US-Russian Oil Company in Tax Haven
By Jon Queally, staff writer | Commondreams.org | – – Leaked documents show Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State is director of subsidiary based in Bahamas Documents leaked to a German newspaper reveal that ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to be the next Secretary of State, has been the quiet director […]
Trump’s plan to drown World in Oil is a Planetary Nightmare
By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Scroll through Donald Trump’s campaign promises or listen to his speeches and you could easily conclude that his energy policy consists of little more than a wish list drawn up by the major fossil fuel companies: lift environmental restrictions on oil and natural gas […]
Is Bruited Sec. of State Tillerson allied with Iran & at war with Iraq?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A couple of years ago an oil tanker showed up off the Texas coast with cargo from Iraqi Kurdistan. The problem? Iraqi Kurdistan is a province of Iraq, and the central government in Baghdad claims that petroleum discovered in Iraqi Kurdistan is under the control of […]
In the shadow of Trump, a DAPL Victory and Global Protests against Fossil Fuels
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The surprise announcement Sunday by the Army Corps of Engineers that they will not permit the Dakota Access Pipeline to go under the Missouri River, thus ending the threat to Standing Rock Sioux land and lives, marked a signal success for the environmental protest movement and […]
Too bad, Trump: As EVs take off, Dirty Petroleum in Death Spiral
The Tree | – – The renewable energy revolution is now well underway, but many continue to underestimate just how fast and transformative it is going to be. Despite a conservative approach to energy markets, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has just announced that ‘we are witnessing a transformation of global power markets led by […]
Does Turkey’s Erdogan Dream of Neighboring Mosul?
By Lucy DerTavitian | (Informed Comment) | – – The battle over Mosul appears to have ignited Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s expansionist Ottoman era fantasies. He gained a few more adversaries recently when he claimed that Mosul, along with Aleppo, Western Thrace in Greece, and Kosovo, are part of Turkey. Erdogan’s comments come at […]
DAPL: This Thanksgiving, Time to Listen to Native Americans again on Climate & Survival
Revised and updated. By Juan Cole | — The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember today. It was a harvest festival in 1621, participated in by the 50 (out of 100) survivors at Plymouth Plantation and 90 Native Americans. Some of these latter, such as Squanto, […]
N. Dakota Judge Laughs Riot Charges against Amy Goodman out of Court
TeleSur | – – A state prosecutor had sought to charge Goodman with participating in a “riot” for filming an attack on protesters. A North Dakota judge has dismissed the “riot” charges against Amy Goodman for covering the Dakota Access pipeline protests, Democracy Now! confirmed Monday. “This is a complete vindication of my right as […]
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