The British police showed their usual degree of heavy-handiness yesterday, when six people were injured and 14 arrested after clashes between police and climate change protesters near Heathrow airport. Skirmishes were still continuing last night and protests over the aviation...
Russia has sparked an Arctic oil-rush by planting its flag on the ocean floor under the North Pole in a politically charged symbolic gesture to claim the rights to the sea bed which could be rich in oil and gas....
The Lebanese coastline remains heavily polluted from last year's Jiyyeh oil spill and cleaning efforts have not achieved the desired result, according to local NGOs. Their conclusions contrast sharply with reports by other NGOs and the United Nations Environment Program...
Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has warned that oil companies operating in Nigeria must be made to pay heavy fines for oil spills caused by them. Taking a much stronger line than any of his predecessors, the President said that...
Basra, Iraq – On Monday, hundreds of Iraqis, led by the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU), took to the streets of Basra to demand that the Iraqi Parliament reject the proposed Oil Law. [1] Simultaneous demonstrations took place in...
Six Nobel Peace Prize laureates have released a statement in opposition to the proposed controversial Iraqi oil law, that some observers believe could go before Parliament as early as this week. The laureates include Betty Williams, Mairead Maguire, Rigoberta Menchu,...
Nigeria's new vice president visited hotspots in the Niger Delta yesterday in a bid to build confidence ahead of expected talks with local militants who have disrupted oil output and abducted foreign workers. Goodluck Jonathan was likely to visit impoverished...
The sugar in fruit such as apples and oranges can be converted into a new type of low carbon fuel for cars, according to US scientists. The fuel, made from fructose, contains far more energy than ethanol. Critics say that...
This is easily one of the greatest acts of creative direct action ever perpetrated on the oil industry. Bravo Yes Men! Imposters posing as ExxonMobil and National Petroleum Council (NPC) representatives delivered an outrageous keynote speech to 300 oilmen at...
The US Senate debated an energy bill yesterday that would raise auto fuel economy standards for the first time in nearly 20 years and make oil industry price gouging a federal crime. Democratic leaders in both the Senate and House...
