The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is preparing for a massive clean up operation of oil spills in the Niger Delta, including in Ogoni. UNEP’s Country Director, Turhan Saleh said the clean up work would be the most challenging task...
Nigeria’s presidential elections – that will impact the country’s oil industry – have been dismissed as so chaotic and flawed that they should be re-run. Election observers said most polling stations only had half the ballot papers they needed. Half...
A report released this week by the Government Accountability Project (GAP), a whistleblower protection organization based in Washington D.C., demonstrates the politicization of climate science. According to GAP, political policies and practices "have increasingly restricted the flow of scientific information...
Oh dear, Channel Four’s reputation is now in freefall after more revelations on its supposedly ground-breaking programme, “The Great Global Warming Swindle.” On Monday we blogged how Carl Wunsch, who had been interviewed for the programme, now complained that “I...
Although huge petroleum deposits have long been known in Iraq's Kurdish north and Shiite south, Iraq has substantially increased its estimates of the amount of oil and natural gas in deposits on Sunni lands, especially in Anbar province. Iraq has...
A delegation of Inuit is to travel to Washington DC to provide first-hand testimony of how climate change is destroying their way of life and to accuse the Bush administration of undermining their human rights. The delegation to Washington will...
Just as Exxon Mobil posted the largest annual profits by an American company of just under $40 billion, the dark side of oil was exposed again. Eighteen years on, a new study by US government scientists has found that crude...
There is something of the ironic here. At the same time as scientists are meeting in Paris to put their final touches to the latest IPCC a report (which is warning over accelerated warming and melting), experts are meeting in...
If you listened to, or read, President Bush's speech last night, you might be thinking that a 20% reduction in gasoline use over the next decade sounds pretty good. That is, until you go to the White House website to...
Did we witness the first green shoots of an ailing President in his State of the Union address? After all the hype of what Bush was going to say about a radical course of direction on climate change, with him...
