Oh yeah? Don't believe a word of it. You may have thought the long debate over whether humans are warming the Earth was finally over, especially given the recent warnings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But today Channel...
The British Government has denied claims it intervened to influence the shaping of Iraq's controversial oil law, which pretty much everyone but the American and British government believes will hand over control of the country's oil supply to foreign multinationals....
The “Great Global Warming Swindle” that showed on Channel Four in the UK last week and tried to argue that carbon dioxide emissions are not to blame for global warming, is it turns out, just a swindle. One of the...
Talking about the changing face of the oil industry, this is a really interesting article by Carola Hoyos in today’s Financial Times about the new “Seven Sisters”, the most powerful global oil companies. Writes Hoyos: “As oil prices have trebled...
BP has had to deny that a series of stinging criticisms of the company's management, culture and cost-cutting by a senior executive were an attack on Lord Browne. Tony Hayward, chief executive for exploration and production worldwide, has whipped up...
The Dublin-based company Island Oil & Gas has announced an onshore oil exploration deal in "occupied" Western Sahara that it has signed with the Moroccan Government. The deal is hugely controversial as NGOs argue that it could break international law....
ConocoPhillips has started commercial production of “renewable” diesel fuel at the company's refinery in Cork, Ireland. The refinery is currently producing 1,000 barrels of the fuel, which includes soybean and vegetable oils. The company argues it meets the European Union...
Police have clashed heavily with local campaigners fighting Shell’s plans to lay a pipeline in County Mayo in Ireland. The community had managed to block construction of the project for more than a year. But earlier this week about 170...
Got nothing better to do this evening? Well why not hop along to Chevron’s Annual Conservation Awards. Amazon Watch, Amnesty International USA, San Ramon Cares about Ecuador, FACES, West County Toxics Coalition, and the Californians for Clean Energy/Yes on 87...
The world’s fourth largest oil exporter, Iran, is seeking payment for oil sales in euros as it shifts currency reserves out of dollars. The State-owned National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), acting under instructions from the Central Bank of Iran, has...
