Oil giant Shell is expected to pay out more than $700m in fines and compensation to settle the reserves fiasco that has dogged the company for the last few years. The figure was revealed by Shell after it offered to...
Halliburton has said that its subsidiary in Iran had completed all its commitments and was no longer working in the country. In January 2005, the company said that it would not accept new work in Iran but that it would...
It is being billed as the concert that will awaken the world to the dangers of climate change. It took Bob Geldof’s persuasive powers to rally support in aid of Africa. Now, over twenty years after the first Live Aid...
The New York Times reports that the latest IPCC report to be released today has found with “high confidence” that greenhouse gas emissions are at least partly responsible for a host of changes already under way, including longer growing seasons...
A report released this week by the Government Accountability Project (GAP), a whistleblower protection organization based in Washington D.C., demonstrates the politicization of climate science. According to GAP, political policies and practices "have increasingly restricted the flow of scientific information...
Halliburton, the global oil services group once headed by Dick Cheney, America’s Vice-President, is to shift its headquarters from Texas to Dubai in a move that reflects the changing balance of power in the world’s oil industry. Dave Lesar, chief...
Since May 2006, a massive mudflow in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia has left at least seven people dead, swallowed several villages, displaced 15,000 residents and destroyed 20 factories, all resulting in economic stagnation in the region. On Thursday, Indonesian police...
Oh yeah? Don't believe a word of it. You may have thought the long debate over whether humans are warming the Earth was finally over, especially given the recent warnings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But today Channel...
Now the Independent newspaper has launched into biofuels with a front page lead in today’s paper. The biofuel bonanza is set to reach a landmark this week the US President, George Bush, arrives in Brazil to kick-start the creation of...
A Saudi Arabian terrorist group affiliated with Al Qaeda has urged Muslim militants to attack oil facilities worldwide, including in Canada, Mexico and Venezuela, to stop the flow of oil to the United States. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula...
