Falklands Oil Row Escalates
When we talk about wars for oil, the first and second Gulf wars spring to mind. First it was Kuwait and then Iraq. But cast your minds back even further to the Falklands conflict in the eighties. You could ask...
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Dying for a Drink?
In these days of climate change it is all too easy to forget about the other pollution that belches from the chimney stacks of our power stations or pours from its pipes into our rivers. So good on the New...
Slick Senate Votes
Its not only the recent climate vote that suggests the influence of Big Oil in the Senate. Yesterday the Senate took two more votes where the influence of Big Oil was arguably a Big Factor. Yesterday the Senate voted down...
“We are holding ourselves hostage to the weather”
Such has been the race to embrace biofuels that in the rush we forgot about the risks. We conveniently forgot about how food going to fuel would exacerbate food shortages and hence push up food prices. We conveniently forgot that...
MEND launches another attack in Nigeria…
No let up in the chaos of Nigeria. Rebels from the Niger Delta blew up a Royal Dutch Shell pipeline yesterday, forcing the firm to cut production, helping keep world oil prices near record highs as a consequence. It was...
Biofuels: the Burning Question ….
From today in the UK, all petrol and diesel sold on forecourts must contain at least 2.5 per cent biofuel. Although the Government insists its flagship environmental policy will make Britain's 33 million vehicles greener, there is a huge amount...
Trade War Over Biofuel Subsidies
Oh the irony, the poor starve, yet the rich squabble over subsidies. European biodiesel producers have triggered a fresh transatlantic trade war by urging the EU to impose punitive duties on cheap imports from the US. They claim that low-priced...
Ecuador Repairs Ruptured Pipeline
Ecuador is reopening its main oil pipeline, three days after a landslide ruptured an 80-meter (262-foot) section of the duct, spilling thousands of barrels of oil into the local environment. The ecological fallout from the 4,000 barrel spill in a...
EU: Climate Change Poses “Security Risk”
Climate change poses "serious security risks" and fighting it should be part of "preventive security policy", according to the European Union's top diplomats. The warning is contained in a paper prepared for an EU summit this month by Javier Solana,...
Shocking Scale of C02 Emissions from Shipping Revealed
The true scale of climate change emissions from shipping is almost three times higher than previously believed, according to a leaked UN study. It calculates that annual emissions from the world's merchant fleet have already reached 1.12bn tonnes of CO2,...