In an unprecedented move, some 1,000 organisations working on climate change, indigenous rights and transparency, have written to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) criticising it for failing to address the risks posed by climate change.
Any way you look at it, Teck's proposed tar sands mine, 'Frontier' is a bad investment.
Twenty years ago, the oil giant Shell was plunged into a corporate crisis after it was internationally criticised for trying to dump the redundant Brent Spar oil platform in the North Sea and for being complicit in the murder of...
Today is the nineteen anniversary of the muder of the writer, Ken Saro-Wiwa, by the Nigerian junta for his campaign against the oil giant Shell.
The oil and gas industry makes out particularly well in the budget deal, with the vast majority of its generous subsidies preserved under the new budget. Meanwhile, support for clean energy is on the chopping block.
Find out how much oil money your elected representatives take by visiting the Dirty Energy Money site. Washington, D.C.---U.S. Senators that blocked a vote on legislation to end taxpayer subsidies to oil companies have received five times more in campaign...
Later today, several hundred New Yorkers, backed by at least 40 environmental organisations, are heading to attend a rally on Capitol lawn in Albany to protest against the dirty drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing or "fracking." Among the speakers will...
Who would be a BP shareholder? Last week the company's shares surged on the fact that the National Commission into the Deepwater disaster had not provided clear evidence of BP’s “gross negligence” into the spill. It could have been construed...
Earlier this month, I blogged how the tar sands lobby was trying to exploit BP’s Gulf of Mexico spill. Well the pro-tar sands argument has once again been blown out of the water by a report from the social investment...
Five years ago, I co-authored a book called “The Next Gulf- London, Washington and Oil Conflict in Nigeria”, that - as the title suggested - looked at the interlinked nature of oil politics from America, the UK and West Africa....
