The US federal government has filed suit against the owners and pilot of the container ship that ran into San Francisco's Bay Bridge on November 7th. The suit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, seeks compensation for cleanup costs...
"God is Brazilian," declared the country's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after his government's announcement earlier this month that massive new oil reserves had been discovered offshore. Brazil's government and the state-run oil company Petrobras announced two weeks ago...
The American Speaker of the House of Representatives has announced she will request a new investigation by the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security into the November 7th oil spill in San Francisco Bay. Central to the investigation...
As hundreds of Russian soldiers have been deployed to clean up a 2,000-tonne oil spill in the weather has deteriorated, in the worse storms to hit the region in thirty years. Officials are now warning of "an environmental catastrophe" as...
A Korean consortium has signed a deal to prospect for oil in Iraqi Kurdistan in northern Iraq. The Korea National Oil Corporation has signed an agreement with the Kurdish autonomous government to cooperate in developing the region's Bazyan oil field....
Global coalition calls for an end to ‘oil aid’ October 19, 2007, Washington, DC. – More than 200 organisations from 56 countries are calling on the World Bank and other international financial institutions to end subsidies to the oil industry....
For more than 150 years, engineers have toyed with the idea of constructing a dam across the width of the Bristol Channel, in Western England. However, the scheme took a large step towards reality yesterday, when John Hutton, the Secretary...
Asia-Pacific leaders meeting in Sydney agreed a climate deal at the week-end that includes an “aspirational” goal to restrain the rise of greenhouse gas emissions to tackle climate change. The only problem is that although China and the US, two...
Jury selection will begin this week in the trial of Oscar S. Wyatt Jr., a wealthy Texas oilman accused of conspiring to pay millions of dollars in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime to win contracts under the United Nations' oil-for-food...
The news outlet, Agence France-Presse, reported today that dozens of Iraqis held a demonstration in central Baghdad against the proposed Oil Law which would open Iraq's oil and gas sector to U.S. and other foreign oil companies. The Oil Law...
