Toxic Sludge Is Good For You
An horrific story in today’s New York Times about how a global oil company dumped up to 400 tons of toxic waste on the doorstep of some of the world's poorest people in the Ivory Coast in order to save...
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Sakhalin – “No Guarantees” About Engangered Whales
Here is Rich Cookson's second blog from Sakhalin Island, off Russia's east coast. Rich writes: "The Sakhalin Energy (SE) project, Sakhalin II, is the second of nine planned extraction projects around Sakhalin. Exxon holds a 30 per cent stake in...
Big Oil Rips You Off. Need more proof?
Here are two great recent reports detailing EXACTLY how oil companies rip us all off, from Consumers Union. Although its been woefully under-reported in both the traditional and alternative media, the conclusions of CU's May report ("Debunking Oil Industry Myths...
BP Spins Alaska Story
Public relations trade magazine, PR Week has reported that BP has “more than doubled the number of external communications people” working in its Anchorage office due to its current problems in Alaska. According to PR Week, “the company's image is...
BP Sued by Shareholders For Alaskan Shut-Down
The fall-out from BP’s Alaskan fiasco continues. The company’s shareholders have now filed a lawsuit against top executives accusing them of letting investors down by failing to repair the pipeline that forced the shutdown of part of Prudhoe Bay. The...
Oil Subsidies and the Excessive Savings of Poor Countries.
Why hasn't the rising market price of oil plunged the world into a global recession? I'm not going to pretend I know the answer but a few otherwise unrelated articles I read today got me thinking about whether or not...
US Regulator Clears ex-Shell Boss
After a two-year investigation, the US Securities and Exchange Commission has announced it will not be taking any action against former Shell boss Sir Philip Watts. The ex-Shell Chairman was being investigated over the oil and gas reserves overbooking crisis...
US Congressman Bradley Under Fire Over Oil Investments
US Representative Jeb Bradley, Republican of New Hampshire, is under fire for owning nearly $1 million in oil, gas and electric company shares, whilst consistently “voting with energy interests since taking office, often stripping key environmental and consumer protections in...
US “Blackmails” Ecuador Over Oil Dispute
Trouble is brewing for the oil industry is Latin America. First it was Venezuela that refused to privatise its oil industry and then slapped an 80 per cent tax on their operations- Bolivia followed suit by renationalizing foreign oil companies’...
More on The Great Iraq Oil Grab
If you thought the new Iraqi government would govern Iraq for the people, well, I''m sorry. Think again. Good article on Alternet today about who controls Iraq's oil fields. It quotes Antonia Juhasz, author of “The Bush Agenda,” who has...