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Carbon Bubble News #95
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, March 15, 2016
A supplement to Eco Unionist News:
Lead Stories:
- India’s growing coal glut stalls mines - By Bob Burton and Ashish Fernandes, End Coal, March 9, 2016
- Crash in oil prices will hurt the U.S. economy from Texas to Wall Street - By W. Rocky Newman and John R. Bowblis, The Conversation, March 8, 2016
- Energy Wars of Attrition: The Irony of Oil Abundance - By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch, March 8, 2016
- Is Oil Becoming Stranded? - By Paul Spedding, Project Syndicate, February 9, 2016
Other Carbon Bubble News:
- Crude oil shipments by rail from Midwest to coastal regions decline - By Arup Mallik and Mason Hamilton, Oil Voice, March 11, 2016
- Anadarko cuts deep, will shed 17% of jobs, Encana to follow next week - By Aldo Svaldi and Tamara Chuang, Denver Post, March 10, 2016
- Anadarko Petroleum cutting 17 percent of workforce - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, March 10, 2016
- Arch Coal suspends Montana coal mine plans - By Karl Pucket, Great Falls Tribune, March 10, 2016
- BHP's $14 billion Jansen potash becomes latest victim of commodities rout - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, March 10, 2016
- Coal Export Plans Spiral Further As Arch Coal Withdraws Plan for Largest Strip Mine in Country - Press Release, Power Past Coal, March 10, 2016
- Fossil Fuels Lose Out In Japan’s Power Sector Transformation - By Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, March 10, 2016
- JPMorgan Backs Away From Investing In Coal, Compares It To Child Labor - By Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, March 10, 2016
- Market Currents: Seven reasons for a crude oil sell-off today - By Matt Smith, FuelFix, March 10, 2016
- A Warning From the B.I.S.: the Calm Before the Storm? - By Mike Whitney, CounterPunch, March 10, 2016
- Halliburton cuts benefits, executive bonuses - By Robert Grattan, FuelFix, March 9, 2016
- BP to decrease number of rigs working at Prudhoe Bay - By Associated Press, FuelFix, March 9, 2016
- Fossil fuels are 'probably dead,' says Canadian Pacific Railway CEO Hunter Harrison - By Staff, Calgary Herald, March 9, 2016
- Op-ed: Oakland coal port scheme is a pig in a poke - By Tom Sanzillo, Salt Lake Tribune, March 9, 2016
- Too Many Boats for Too Little Cargo Leaves Shippers High and Dry - By Alex Longley, Bloomberg, March 9, 2016
- JPMorgan pulls out of coal. Kinda - By Katie Herzog, Grist, March 8, 2016; [realted]: JP Morgan: Coal investments on par with child labour - By Ed King, Climate Change News, March 3, 2016
- Plummeting global rig count could trigger oil supply crunch - By Jordan Blum, FuelFix, March 8, 2016
- Energy policy expert says oil slump is a 'bust' - By James Fenton, Farmington Daily Times, March 7, 2016
- Moody’s may downgrade several West Texas local governments because of the oil bust - By Jennifer Hiller, FuelFix, March 7, 2016
- Wanna see what happens when you rely on the fossil fuel sector and slash taxes? Check out Louisiana - By Ben Adler, Grist, March 7, 2016
- Oil on the skids - By Nafeez Ahmed, New Internationalist, March 1, 2016
- Peabody, next Northwest coal exporter to go bankrupt - By Nick Abraham, Oil Check Northwest, February 25, 2016
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