Press Releases

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  Release: Canada Not Running Out of Pipeline Capacity

  October 18, 2016

  Canada does not need new pipelines, in spite of repeated misleading claims by the oil industry. That’s the conclusion of a new Oil Change International (OCI) analysis showing that Canada has ample pipeline Capacity to export all existing and under construction oil production to market from western Canada.

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  Release: Paris Agreement Ratification Means No New Fossil Fuels

  October 5, 2016

  The climate science is clear: to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees, world leaders must immediately end public support to fossil fuels, end expansion of fossil fuel development, and begin a managed decline of the fossil fuel industry with a just transition to renewable energy.

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  Canada’s fossil fuel subsidies threaten to cancel out proposed national carbon price

  October 3, 2016

  In response to Prime Minister Trudeau’s announcement of a national carbon pricing proposal, Alex Doukas, Senior Campaigner at Oil Change International, released the following statement.

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  RELEASE: Fossil Fuel Expansion Has Reached the Sky’s Limit: Report

  September 22, 2016

  The embedded carbon emissions from the oil, gas, and coal in currently operating fields and mines, if they run to the end of their projected lifetimes, will take us just beyond the Paris Agreement’s 2C warming limit, and even further from the goal of 1.5C, a new study has found.

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  G20 leaders fail to act on fossil fuel subsidies, undermining Paris climate goals

  September 5, 2016

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 5, 2016 Contact: Alex Doukas, alex [at] priceofoil [dot] org G20 leaders fail to act on fossil fuel subsidies, undermining Paris climate goals In response to the statements on fossil fuel subsidies in the G20 Leaders’ Communique, which fail to establish a deadline for the phase out of subsidies, Oil Change International has…
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