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We ask you to vote for Shell in Corporate Accountability’s Hall of Shame for denying justice in Nigeria for a generation and for delaying action on climate change.

Last Friday, in an historic judgement, Shell’s day finally came. A Dutch court ordered that Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary pay compensation for oil spills in the Niger Delta that stretch back decades.  Do not underestimate this moment.

Another grim, painful milestone is reached. It is now a quarter of a century since Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9 were murdered in Nigeria by Shell.

The investigation into Exxon’s twenty-five year climate misinformation campaign is gathering serious momentum.

These are turbulent times, no doubt. The unexpected seems to happen on an almost daily basis and what was deemed impossible just months ago now seems highly probable or even normal, whether we are talking financial crisis, falling currencies, or...

Before his death, one of the great and most respected Nigerians of the modern era, Claude Ake, warned about the “militerisation of commerce.” He repeatedly warned against Shell’s use of the military and mobile police force to protect their oil...

Many years ago, before he died in a plane crash, the Nigerian academic Claude Ake warned about the consequences of the militarisation of commerce. Over a decade later, the spiral of violence concerning oil continues. Ake's painful warning has come...

The International Energy Agency has predicted that global carbon dioxide emissions would increase by a staggering 55 per cent between now and 2030, unless "urgent" action was taken by governments and consumers. That is the catastrophic scenario of continuing with...

As climate change moves up the political agenda, with even rumours that President Bush is going to make an a massive U-turn on the subject, another bastion of sceptics is starting to worry about the subject – OPEC.At a recent...

Sometimes it’s the simple things that are best. By just using low-energy light bulbs and other efficient lighting systems we could prevent some 16 billion tons of carbon from being emitted over the next 25 years, according to a report...