1. The American Deep State
   Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2014
   Scott makes a compelling case for a hidden "deep state," a second order of government behind the public or constitutional state, that influences and often opposes official U.S. policies.
2. Are We Drawing the Right Lessons from the Gulf Oil Disaster?
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2010
   We are already hearing calls from environmentalists for a moratorium on oil drilling and exploration in coastal zones, with a definite "I told you so" attitude. Unfortunately, that would be drawing precisely the wrong lesson from the Gulf of Mexico
3. Big Oil's Chokehold on Canadian Democracy
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   The fight against Big Oil corporatism may be the most important one you ever support.
4. Canada Is Now To Climate What Japan Is To Whaling
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2009
   Here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush. Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada.
5. Canada Since 1960: A People's History
   A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2016
   An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
6. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 2
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1977
   
7. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1977
   
8. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1977
   
9. Chevron Wins Latest Round in Ecuador Pollution Case
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   In the latest twist in a 21-year-old environmental pollution case, a U.S. federal judge Tuesday ruled that the victims of massive oil spillage and their U.S. attorney could not collect on a nine-billion-dollar judgement by Ecuador’s supreme court against the Chevron Corporation.
10. Citizen-Journalist Fined for Telling the Truth
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The story of an injunction against against a journalist who dared to tell the truth.
11. Climate Advocates Underestimate Power of Fossil Fueled Misinformation Campaigns, Say Top Researchers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    The "climate countermovement" direct massive resources towards denying the reality of climate change. Climate advocates need to address their opposition's tactics to be able to combat this misinformation.
12. Community groups and First Nations demand the shutdown of Enbridge's Line 9
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    More than 80 organizations in southern Ontario and Quebec, impacted indigenous communities, as well as national organizations have released a statement letter to the Prime Minister condemning the recent National Energy Board (NEB) approval of Line 9
13. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
    
14. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
    
15. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
    
16. Connexions Library: Environment Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
17. Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Investigation of oil as major driver in the power dynamics of the world, and of the 'oil curse', which seems to make the countries that export it poorer, not richer.
18. Democracy for the Few
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
    
19. Dirty Water, Dirtier Practices
    Ecuador's Battle with Texaco's Legacy Pollution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Texaco (now owned by Chevron) left polluted soil and ground water after 20 years of oil extraction in the Amazon in Ecuador. The legal claims and counter-claims over responsibility and reparation continue.
20. Ecuadorean Villagers May Still Triumph Over Chevron
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Michael Krauss, a lawyer who teaches "ethics" at a law school named after the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, recently posted a blog on the Forbes website entitled "The Ecuador Saga Continues: Steven Donziger now owes Chevron more than $800,000" (Forbes 3/14/2018). Kraus says that Chevron has basically triumphed over evil...
21. Edelman's TransCanada Astroturf Documents Expose Oil Industry's Broad Attack on Public Interest
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The Edelman strategy documents and work proposals outline a "grassroots advocacy" campaign plan to build support for TransCanada's Energy East pipeline as well as to undermine public opposition to oil and pipelines generally. Documents obtained by Greenpeace detail a desperate astroturf PR strategy designed by Edelman for TransCanada to win public support for its Energy East tar sands export pipeline. TransCanada has failed for years to win approval of the controversial border-crossing Keystone XL pipeline, so apparently the company has decided to "win ugly or lose pretty" with an aggressive public relations attack on its opponents.
22. The Energy Poker Game
    The Politics of the Continental Resources Deal
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    
23. EnvironmentSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
24. Fighting Big Oil's Cynical Arts Sponsorship
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A growing movement is opposing fossil fuel industry sponsorship of the arts. Pop-up protests and performances denouncing Shell, BP and others are winning the popular vote.
25. The Heat Is On
    The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A book discussing the ever-worsening threat of global climate change.
26. Imposters shock oil conference
    Yes Men" propose burning humanity as "vivoleum" fuel in case of climate calamity
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    Imposters posing as ExxonMobil and National Petroleum Council (NPC) representatives delivered an outrageous keynote speech to 300 oilmen at GO-EXPO, Canada's largest oil conference, held at Stampede Park in Calgary, Alberta, on June 15, 2007.
27. Just the Beginning of Canada's Filthy Tar Sands
    A Qualitative Jump Down a Black Hole
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The technology used in Canada's tar sands will be used to open up other potential oil deposits that could more than double all know oil reserves. The disaster threatens to keep expanding.
28. Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regarding Line 9
    Climate Change and the Line 9B Reversal Project
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A letter from community organizations in southern Ontario and Quebec, impacted Indigenous communities, and national organizations that would like to express adamant opposition to the recent 'Leave to Open' status granted to the Enbridge Line 9B reversal project by the National Energy Board (NEB) of Canada.
29. Lockdown: the end of growth in the tar sands
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Climate change is here and now. And if world leaders had heeded scientific warnings 30 years ago, 20 years ago, 10 years ago, or even as recently as the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 -- it's possible we would be well on our way to securing the decarbonized future that the world desperately needs.
30. A Marxist History of the World part 104: 2001: 9/11, the War on Terror, and the New Imperialism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The Al-Qaida terror attacks allowed the great powers to justify new imperialist wars to safeguard the interests of global capital.
31. New Internationalist
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
32. The Oil Road
    Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    A look at a particular oil pipeline and its history, both locally and as a part of the global oil industry.
33. The oil war
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Declassified documents now reveal what everybody, especially the Iraqis, always knew: the US invaded Iraq to secure its oil supplies for US and allied companies. It hasn't quite worked out as planned.
34. £1bn a month: the spiralling cost of oil theft in Nigeria
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    It's a crime with international repercussions, and second only to the drugs trade for the money it earns. And it threatens to destabilise Africa's second-largest economy.
35. Randy Park, Author and Speaker -- "Thinking for Results"
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
36. Peace Out
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2011
    Charles Wilkinson explores the costs of damming, fracking, and extracting, and how they implicate every gas tank and light switch in this country.
37. Preservation or plunder? The battle over the British Museum's Indigenous Australian show
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Indigenous Australians are calling for the objects on show at the British Museum's new exhibition to be returned.
38. Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    The first hard-hitting examination of ExxonMobil, Private Empire is the masterful result of Coll’s indefatigable reporting. A penetrating, newsbreaking study, Private Empire is a defining portrait of ExxonMobil and the place of Big Oil in American politics and foreign policy.
    
39. Reversing Enbridge & Big Oil's Pipeline Plans
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The National Academy of Sciences is skewering the industry's 'oil is oil' talking point -- making it clear that diluted bitumen is a different beast altogether and needs to be treated as such. The agonizingly slow and costly Kalamazoo River spill cleanup in Michigan made many of these points clear. Yet, the tar sands industry has continued to insist that diluted bitumen creates no deeper environmental threat as they push for unsustainable growth. While Keystone XL is off the table, there are numerous other projects being considered that extend the unique pipeline problems of dilbit into communities across North America.
40. The Squeeze: Oil Money and Greed in the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    A review the big business of the oil industry across the globe, and the lengths (depths) to which they will go to maximise profits.
41. Stupid to the Last Drop
    How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care)
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    As the world teeters on the edge of catastrophic climate change, Alberta plunges ahead with uncontrolled development of its fossil fuels, levelling its northern Boreal forest to get at the oil sands, and carpet bombing its southern half with tens of thousands of gas wells.
42. A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    An exploration of Nigeria, with focus to the effect the oil industry has had on the country.
43. Tar Sands
    Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    To extract the energy from the Alberta tar sands, the world's ugliest, most expensive hydrocrabon, we are polluting our air, poisoning our water, destroying vast areas of boreal forest, and undermining democracy.
44. Tar sands campaigners are Canada's new 'terrorists'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Canada's Harper government has targeted as a new crime being a member of an 'anti-Canadian petroleum movement', and equating such a stance with terrorism.
45. Washington and the Oil Industry Know the Truth About Climate Change
    Short-Term Profits Trump Survival
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Climate skeptics in Congress, and oil and coal industry lobbyists like the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Coal Council (ACC) may be preventing any significant action in the US on reducing this country’s emissions of carbon into the atmosphere, but at the Pentagon, and in the executive suites of the oil industry giants, there is no doubt about the reality of climate change.
46. The Wheat Trap
    Bread and Underdevelopment in Nigeria
    Resource Type: Book
    This book examines how bread, introduced as a luxury in colonial Nigeria, has become the cheapest staple food, and how Nigeria is now caught in a "wheat trap": the need to import increasing quantities of the grain, but - with failing oil revenues - a declining ability to finance them. The authors examine the oil-boom policy of unrestricted food imports and its effects on domestic food production.

Experts on Oil Industry in the Sources Directory

1. CorpWatch