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Peru’s Indigenous People Take Battle Over Gas Exploration to Court

(Photo: Aidesep.org)Indigenous populations in Peru are fighting back against gross expansion of the Camisea natural gas project in the Amazon which they say threatens the "physical and cultural survival" of isolated tribes as well as invaluable biodiversity.

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“Big Oil and Energy Traders Manipulating Consumers”

Antonia Juhasz is an oil and energy analyst, author and journalist. Her books on the oil industry include The Tyranny of Oil. She is an investigative journalism fellow at the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. The Los Angeles Times recently published an op-ed of hers on the Chevron refinery fire. Juhasz said today: "Price manipulation is driving rising gasoline prices, not supply and demand fundamentals. In California, gasoline production increased by more than 12 percent in the week following the Chevron refinery fire as other refineries increased production. At the same time, gas prices increased dramatically driven by price manipulation. Big Oil and energy traders, who are often one in the same as every major oil company (with the possible exception of Exxon Mobil) reports in SEC filings engaging in speculative energy trading, are manipulating consumers.

Keystone XL: A Tar Sands Pipeline to Increase Oil Prices

Despite all the industry hype over jobs and purported energy security benefits from building the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline -- benefits a Brooklyn bridge-builder could propose -- a new report shows the mammoth Canadian tar sands pipeline will ...

Report: Fracking Could Cause a New Global Water Crisis

As the oil and gas industry heads more towards hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, to access resources, a new report out today from Food & Water Watch states that the process may become a global environmental and public health threat. Num...

Lobbying Expenditures Slump in 2011

The nation’s economy may be slowly rebounding, but during 2011, the economic engine of K Street sputtered. Overall expenditures on lobbying were down for the first time in more than a decade, according to research by the Center for Responsive Politics.