Andy Rowell
Andy Rowell is a staff blogger for Oil Change International in addition to working as a freelance writer and investigative journalist who specializes in environmental, health and lobbying issues. Follow him on Twitter: @andy_rowell
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Views Tuesday, October 01, 2019 Despite Climate Emergency, Shell Boss Still Thinks It's "Legitimate to Invest" in Oil On Monday, the fossil fuel giant Royal Dutch Shell introduced its quarterly outlook for investors, predicting higher output for its Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) operations. In total for the group, oil and gas production for Shell was predicted to be in excess of 2.65 million barrels of oil per day... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 25, 2019 Big Polluters Respond to Greta’s Climate Call With "Woefully Short" Ambition Last week, millions of people marched for radical action on our climate emergency, demanding climate justice. Yesterday, as the UN gathered for a special session on climate, protesters were still out in force in New York and Washington, DC. Inside the conference, an impassioned and blunt speech by... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 19, 2019 Greta Tells Congress to #UniteBehindtheScience On Wednesday Greta Thunberg and other inspirational young climate activists spoke at a joint hearing in Congress about climate change. They were speaking before both the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee and the U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, at the Rayburn House Office... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 18, 2019 Americans Want Action on Climate; Not War Over Oil With Iran As I write, the U.S. is inching its way towards possible war with Iran after the weekend drone strikes in Saudi Arabia on the strategic oil facilities owned by the state oil company, Saudi Aramco. Reuters has just reported that the Saudis are saying the attack on the oil processing plant and... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 10, 2019 Climate Deniers' Response to Climate Crisis: "There Is No Climate Emergency" For many of us who have been writing and campaigning on climate change and against the oil industry for years, it is easy to forget what a momentous year it has been for raising awareness about our climate crisis. The impact of Greta Thunberg, the global school strike movement, the Sunrise Movement... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 26, 2019 Meet Boris, the UK’s Climate-Denying New Prime Minister & "Donald Trump of Britain" As I write, Boris Johnson has just been confirmed as Britain’s new Prime Minister. A highly controversial and devisive figure, there are millions who are shocked at his offensive sexist, racist, Islamophobic, and homophobic views , amongst others. It is hardly surprising that Donald Trump is an... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 23, 2019 A Letter to the Future From a Glacier That Is No More So is this how it ends? As our climate emergency deepens, as the once great Arctic icescapes melt before our eyes, and once majestic glaciers break up and melt and disappear, we are left to put plaques in their place to lament our lost world. Our children and their children will inherit places full... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 11, 2019 Humanity Sleep-Walking Toward 'Mass Extinction' Next year, the British Government will host the UN Climate talks in London, known as COP26, which are the most important climate talks since Paris in 2015. So for the next year, the UK will be a critical leader in the global fight against climate change. For the UK to ask other nations to act, it... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 08, 2019 OPEC Warns Climate Campaigners Are "Greatest Threat to Our Industry Going Forward." OPEC—which remains the largest oil cartel in the world—has a problem. It is sitting on vast reserves of oil, which are currently worth trillions and trillions of dollars. But every day the more people that join the fight against the industry, forcing the UN, national and state governments,... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 18, 2019 Arctic Warming & Climate Change 'Should Be the Number One Urgent Conversation Right Now' The news coming out of the Arctic over the last few days is further evidence of our rapidly evolving climate emergency, which has ramifications for all of us. Arctic scientists are speaking out with increasing alarm at what they are seeing, and as they keep repeating “what happens in the Arctic... Read more |