The Niger Delta: “Swallowed by Shell’s Sea”
It is sixty years ago this year that the oil giant, Shell, first found oil at Oloibiri in Ijawland in the Niger Delta, after fourteen years of searching.
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Crude By Rail Company Accused of Playing “Russian Roulette”
The fallout from Friday’s crude by rail crash in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon is intensifying after numerous local elected officials called for a temporary halt to the so-called “bomb trains” through the area until the cause of the...
Senators Call on Obama to Act “Immediately” on Crude by Rail Trains
The political and regulatory fall-out from the crude by rail crash in the Colombia River Gorge earlier this month is still continuing.
Climate Deniers Push for Brexit Which Could Fast-Track Fracking
Leading climate denial organisations in the UK are pushing for Brexit which could fast-track fracking.
US Secretly Approves Hundreds of Offshore Fracking Wells
As the US shale industry comes under increasing scrutiny for its environmental and health impact, it has emerged that the US has secretly approved fracking offshore leading to billions of gallons of waste-water to be dumped at sea.
Fracking Rights in Wales Sold for £1
There are many ways you can question the logic of the British Government’s pro-fracking push.
UK Government Bails Out North Sea; Gives “Nothing to Solar”
Last week, the British Prime Minster, David Cameron, flew to Aberdeen, the oil capital of the UK to announce £250 million emergency funding to “prop up the North Sea oil industry”; which is reeling badly from the low oil price.
Big Oil’s crisis of its own making: low prices bring calls for oil bailouts
Written by: Lorne Stockman, Greg Muttitt, and Alex Doukas The price of oil crashed to below $30 per barrel in early 2016, prompting not only a flurry of news stories highlighting things that cost more than a barrel of oil (including...
Controversial Utah Tar Sands Mine “Put on Hold”
Every day the low oil price is causing more pain for the oil and gas industry and no company or region is immune from the damage being caused.
Oil Giant Shell Sued Again Over Nigerian Pollution
The serial offender Shell is being sued. Again. The oil giant finds itself in a court in London today for the second time in five years for its ongoing chronic pollution problems in the Niger Delta.