Log onto the website StopOilSpeculationNow.com and you might think that it’s a plea by poor American consumers who are being hit by rocking oil prices. But you would be wrong: it is a PR effort by the Air Transport Association...
Whilst the world obsesses about how the oil industry could help bring down the oil price, a growing spat is taking place that could have huge ramifications for the oil industry. It concerns the Russians and BP, with some saying...
Increasing carbon dioxide emissions could leave species such as coral and sea urchins struggling to survive by the end of the century because they are making the oceans more acidic. Research by British scientists has found that rising carbon emissions...
Great blog by the Antipodean scourge of the oil industry, Cindy Baxter yesterday on the Exxon Secrets website. Cindy, who remains one of a committed half-dozen sceptic watchers, had been reading Exxon’s latest Corporate Citizenship report. Buried deep in the...
Venezuela has announced plans to ship oil to Portugal in exchange for food products and other goods that have been running short in the South American country. Venezuela, Latin America's largest oil producer, will send as many as 30,000 barrels...
As Lima prepares to receive over 60 heads of state for the EU/LAC Summit to discuss poverty, sustainable development, climate change and energy, a grand drama of indigenous people versus oil is playing out in Peru’s vast Amazon region, 70%...
Climate change could cause global conflicts as large as the two world wars but lasting for centuries unless the problem is controlled, a leading think tank has warned. The Royal United Services Institute, based in the UK, said a tenfold...
Was it his Palestinian scarf, his Armani jeans, designer shirt or his permanent tan that gave him away? But a spy who infiltrated the direct action group Plane Stupid in the UK, has been exposed after making a series of...
One of the world's leading climate scientists has warned that the EU and its international partners must urgently rethink targets for cutting CO2 because they have grossly underestimated the scale of the problem. In a startling reappraisal of the threat,...
Venezuela's Congress has given initial approval to a windfall oil tax that extends President Hugo Chavez's campaign to increase government revenue from the oil industry. The tax will tap into private company profits amid record oil prices above $100 per...
