Tony Blair has insisted he could persuade President Bush to agree to a global target for a "substantial cut" in greenhouse gases within a framework sanctioned by the United Nations. In an interview with the Guardian on the eve of...
Sunday's London Independent contains a fascinating little story entitled "Feelgood funding blocks eco-warriors". Apparently the UK's top grant giving institutions are more interested in funding conservation and species preservation, than they are in addressing systemic change to stop the root...
Nigeria’s outgoing government has failed to raise interest from major oil companies in its latest oil license auction, with industry executives fearful of contracts being revoked after the government's new government swears in. Last Friday’s auction, where only 18 of...
It turns out the Democrats latest War Supplemental does contain language that takes on the oil industry - only its Sudan they're concerned about, not Iraq. According to UPI, a provision in the Bill "mandates that the Secretary of the...
Following on from our previous blog about Oxy being accused of dumping oil in the Amazon, the oil company has now been sued by Earthrights International on behalf of the Achuar people. The claim alleges that over the course of...
The violence in the Niger Delta is escalating. Fighters from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) today claimed to have destroyed three major oil pipelines in the region. MEND said the Italian oil firm Agip's Brass...
Occidental has been accused of contaminating an area of the Peruvian Amazon where it and its successor company have drilled for oil for the past 32 years, creating misery for the local Achuar people and widespread lead and cadmium poisoning....
Nigeria's president-elect, Umaru Yar'Adua, intends to tackle violence in the Niger Delta by initiating dialogue with "militants" when he assumes office. Yar'Adua, who won the disputed election, said he would get to work immediately on solving the crisis in the...
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is preparing for a massive clean up operation of oil spills in the Niger Delta, including in Ogoni. UNEP’s Country Director, Turhan Saleh said the clean up work would be the most challenging task...
Nigeria’s presidential elections – that will impact the country’s oil industry – have been dismissed as so chaotic and flawed that they should be re-run. Election observers said most polling stations only had half the ballot papers they needed. Half...
