LINKS to 2013 FOSSIL FUEL articles (except specifically tar sands, fracking for shale gas)  - collated by Henry Adams 
 My web-site HUB page HERE
This introductory section is likely to be shifted to a separate web-page (linked to this page) in due course
 
Q:   What are the key things stopping UK, EU, US, Canada, . . .  from tackling climate change?

A1:   The ‘capture’ of governments by fossil fuel interests. 

UK government, both its centre and its departments, is riddled with fossil fuel interests - especially oil and gas (USA & Canada - extremely so). UK: Ostensibly in an advisory role but in effect much more (e.g. Lord Browne - head of Cuadrilla - in the Cabinet Office - is a prime example. Extreme conflict of interests!)

A2:   The perceived profit-potential of fossil fuel industries to the financial sector e.g. banks.
"perceived" - because they are gambling on governments failing to implement effective legislation on climate change.

Effective government legislation on climate change would mean that most of the fossil fuel reserves on which the market value of fossil fuel companies is based (e.g. share values) would have to "remain in the ground", and finances invested into this gamble - and the associated built infrastructure - would become 'stranded assets' and the 'carbon bubble' would burst resulting in a financial crisis. Thus banks such as RBS are lobbying government to toughen the skin of the bubble so it can expand further without bursting - or at least - in the short-term . . .            They are ignoring the need to deflate the bubble.

A3:   The web of people with vested fossil interests that closely en-mesh these 3 (government, industry, banks) - is well shown by WDM's recent report:
 

WDM’s recent ‘Carbon Capital - web of power’ displays the evidence with powerful graphics:

 http://www.wdm.org.uk/carbon-capital/web-of-power


CARBON BUBBLE refs:

Carbon bubble will plunge the world into another financial crisis – report   Environment   The Guardian 19apr13 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/19/carbon-bubble-financial-crash-crisis?CMP=twt_gu

How your pension is being used in a $6 trillion climate gamble   Bill McKibben and Jeremy Leggett   Environment   guardian.co.uk 19apr13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/apr/19/pension-6-trillion-climate-gamble

DEFLATE THE CARBON BUBBLE   ShareAction http://www.shareaction.org/carbonbubble

Unburnable carbon 2013  Wasted capital and stranded assets   Carbon Tracker Initiative http://www.carbontracker.org/wastedcapital

The Burning Question:  ‘Why can't we quit fossil fuels’ - Duncan Clark -  Environment- The Guardian 17apr13 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/17/why-cant-we-give-up-fossil-fuels?CMP=twt_gu  - article based on the book The Burning Question by Mike Berners-Lee and Duncan Clark, which is published on 20 April by Profile Books, price £9.99. To order a copy for £7.99 with free UK p&p, go toguardian.co.uk/bookshop or call 0330 333 6846  and Amazon: The Burning Question  We can’t burn half the world’s oil, coal and gas. So how do we quit   Amazon.co.uk  Duncan Clark, Mike Berners-Lee  Books £6.99 http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781250456

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A few useful relevant twitterers:      (just to start you off, I'll add more when I have the time)
https://twitter.com/PriceofOil   https://twitter.com/Open_Oil   https://twitter.com/robinenergy  

Pre-2013 refs/links are in my big LINKS pdf accessible from my web-site HUB page
 
The links below are in approximate chronological order (most recent first); not fully comprehensive - just the selection I've spotted.
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Centrica [includes British Gas], E.ON and RWE [includes npower] lead Arctic rush for oil   Environment   guardian.co.uk 4jul13 Damian Carrington   http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/04/uk-energy-companies-arctic-oil Barents Sea - off N. coast of Norway

Johnny West   BrentGate  Will Be Larger Than the Libor Scandal may13  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/johnny-west/brentgate-will-be-larger-than-libor_b_3277397.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

CHEVRON: True Cost of Chevron » An Alternative Annual Report http://truecostofchevron.com/report.html  & http://amazonwatch.org/work/chevron

How Big Oil Uses the Republican Party to Subvert American Democracy – by Robert F. Kennedy Jnr - 10may13, EcoWatch  Cutting Edge Environmental News Service  http://ecowatch.com/2013/big-oil-uses-republican-party-to-subvert-american-democracy/

Just How Much, Exactly, Are You Paying to Subsidize Fossil Fuels    DeSmog Canada 10may13  http://www.desmog.ca/2013/05/10/just-how-much-exactly-are-you-paying-subsidize-fossil-fuels

SHELL & OXFORD UNI
10may13 http://www.euractiv.com/science-policymaking/oxford-students-alumni-protest-s-news-519640?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=EurActivRSS
10may13 Chris Garrard http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/3456/partnership-between-oxford-university-and-shell-condemned
10may13 UKTSN http://www.no-tar-sands.org/2013/05/shell-outrage-in-oxford-and-james-hansen-coming-to-town/
9may13 http://www.no-tar-sands.org/2013/05/outrage-in-oxford-as-university-launches-partnership-with-shell/
9may13 EEI http://extremeenergy.org/2013/05/09/shell-funds-shale-gas-research-at-oxford-university/
Shell Oxford University Partnership dinner interrupted - YouTube 9may13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QugwYb9smAI&feature=youtu.be
8may13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/08/oxford-shell-earth-sciences-protest?INTCMP=SRCH


Shell funds shale gas research at Oxford University   Extreme Energy Initiative 9may13 http://extremeenergy.org/2013/05/09/shell-funds-shale-gas-research-at-oxford-university/
Oxford students and alumni to protest over Shell Earth sciences funding   Environment   guardian.co.uk 9may13 Adam Vaughan http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/09/oxford-students-alumni-protest-shell
Oxford alumni condemn choice of Shell to fund earth sciences lab.   Jeremy Leggett's Triple Crunch Log 8may13  http://www.jeremyleggett.net/2013/05/oxford-alumni-condemn-choice-of-shell-to-fund-earth-sciences-lab/
Letter  Opponents of Oxford's partnership with Shell   Education   The Guardian 9may13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/may/09/letter-opponents-oxford-partnership-shell?CMP=twt_gu
Fossil Free Oxford University   Fossil Free 9may13+ http://campaigns.gofossilfree.org/petitions/fossil-free-oxford
EVIDENCE of extent to which oil money can influence Universities: David Lynch, University of Alberta - Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers http://www.capp.ca/canadaIndustry/oilSands/Innovation/media/Pages/David.aspx  People are quite energized when I describe what’s happening at the University of Alberta. Over a thousand researchers collaborate here on this one major topic: the responsible development of our oil sands.

SHELL SPONSORED CORRUPTION OF THE IRISH POLICE   Royal Dutch Shell plc .com 1may13  http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2013/05/01/shell-sponsored-corruption-of-the-irish-police/