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Petroleum Industry AlterLinks Topic Index Big Oil's Ethical Violence BP and the Armed Suppression of Dissent in Colombia Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 To challenge impunity is not just to attempt to confine abuses to the past. It serves to expose crimes committed, to preserve memory of the past within the present, and to highlight contradictions between corporate recognition of rights and an economic model that has implied the systematic violation and dispossession of workers and populations around the oilfields. It is part of a process of re-building communities and social organisations wiped out by the violence. 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. Canada's Toxic Chemical Valley Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 About the effects of "Chemical Valley" in the Aamjiwnaang-Sarnia area. Canadian Centre for Energy Information Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization Climate justice movement shakes Canada's New Democratic Party Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 The impact of the Leap Manifesto at the party convention, argues Richard Fidler, opens major opportunities to deepen the debate on climate justice and to build an ecosocialist left in and around the NDP. Connexions Digest Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990 The Energy Poker Game The Politics of the Continental Resources Deal Resource Type: Book Published: 1970 Fossil Fuel Industry's Global Climate Science Communications Plan in Action: Polluting the Classroom Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The Fossil Fuel Industry promotes a plan in U.S. schools to address global climate change. Their plan includes denial, doubt and promoting the merits of fossil fuel. Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m a minute, says IMF Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Fossil fuel companies are benefitting from global subsidies of $5.3tn (£3.4tn) a year, equivalent to $10m a minute every day. Future dustbowl? Fracking ravages Great Plains land and water Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The fracking boom has caused massive vegetation loss over North America's rangelands, as 3 million hectares have been occupied by oil and gas infrastructure and 34 billion cubic metres of water have been pumped from semi-arid ecosystems. Governments Giving Fossil Fuel Companies $10 Million a Minute: IMF Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 How do you stop a pipeline when one family owns both the oil and the media? Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Pipeline opponent’s op-ed rejected by Irving-owned newspaper in New Brunswick. How ExxonMobil's Spending Bonanza Helped Two British Climate Sceptics Set-Up An International Free Market Think Tank Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Roger Bate and Julian Morris of the British free-market think tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), decided to catch ExxonMobil's gravy train across the Atlantic as they began working for US think tanks. Huge Pipeline Company Kinder Morgan Hired Off-Duty Cops to 'Deter Protests' in Pennsylvania Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Kinder Morgan, the self-proclaimed "largest energy infrastructure company in North America," paid $50,000 for off-duty police officers from a Pennsylvania department to patrol a controversial gas pipeline construction site. The hiring came after a request from the corporation for uniformed officers that could "deter protests and prevent delays." 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. 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. 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. The World Without Us Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.

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