Back at the height of the BP oil spill, President Obama asked a commission to find out “what worked and didn’t” in the government’s response to the disaster. Well the bad news for Obama is that much didn’t work, making...
If you talk to Riki Ott, the fisherwoman and marine biologist who has written a book about the Exxon Valdez, one of the lasting unanswered questions is just how much oil was spill from the stricken tanker. The official version...
For the last eighteen months, Canada has increasingly come under the international environmental spot-light for its catastrophic exploitation of the dirty, polluting tar sands. Grim images of Alberta being strip mined have been beamed around the world as Canada has...
Having written about Shell in Nigeria for over fifteen years, we have known that there was huge internal disquiet about the company’s operations in the country. In the aftermath of the murder of Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995, Shell...
So the trickle turns into a tide. They are all at it now. There is a sudden rush amongst oil and gas companies in the US to garner grasssroots support to attack the Climate bill. Just days after Greenpeace released...
Global coalition calls for an end to ‘oil aid’ October 19, 2007, Washington, DC. – More than 200 organisations from 56 countries are calling on the World Bank and other international financial institutions to end subsidies to the oil industry....
At the United Nations Climate Change Conference today, experts and advocates exposed how oil and gas corporations and their government enablers are more interested in appearing to act on climate change than taking real action, while continuing to poison communities...
International public finance for fossil fuels from 40 signatories of the CETP has fallen by up to 78% (USD 11.3–USD 16.3 billion annually) in 2024 compared with 2019–2021 levels.
The EU must courageously oppose Trump's fossil fuel agenda and defend people, our planet, and the rule of law.
Overall, the MDBs are not financing energy access at nearly a sufficient level to meet the needs of energy-poor communities. Much of the energy access finance that is being provided is being directed to many of the communities that need...
