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...
On Monday, the Moscow Times ran a story on one of the most watched projects in the Caspian region. Kashagan, an offshore oil project in the Kazakh sector of the Caspian Sea, is the largest oil field to have been...
More bad news on the climate. Yesterday we blogged on how Arctic ice may be melting faster than previously thought. Now other scientists are warning that the tipping point for climate change could be closer than previously thought. They are...
An extraordinary political drama is unfolding in Alaska as both the FBI and federal grand juries investigate Ted Stevens, the nation's longest-sitting Republican senator, and his son Ben Stevens, a former state Senate president whose office was twice searched by...
The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a criminal inquiry of nearly a dozen oil and oil-services companies, focusing on potentially illegal payments – bribes - to customs agents who provided freight forwarding and other services, including in Nigeria. A civil...
Under pressure to preserve the environment while at the same time ease the poverty of his people, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has come up with an unusual and novel solution. President Rafael Correa has startled Wall Street with talk of...
Iraq's Kurdish regional government plans to invite foreign bids on 40 new oil blocks in anticipation that the country’s controversial oil law will be passed soon. It forms part of plans to increase daily output to one million barrels in...
On 7th July there will be 'Live Earth' concerts all around the globe to draw attention to climate change. The tickets are all sold and the perfomers are already chosen. But at www.aliveearth.org an alternative concert is already underway- a...
Daryl Hannah, the actress turned environmentalist, is adding her voice to the campaign demanding redress for the inhabitants of Ecuador's Amazon region, which has been blighted by 30 years of oil exploration by Texaco. The 46-year-old star of Splash and...
A coalition of relief and development agencies like Christian Aid and Tearfund will warn 600 delegates to the ‘UN 3rd World Conference on Disaster Reduction’ in Geneva today of the dangers of climate change. The agencies will warn delegates that...
