Since May 2006, a massive mudflow in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia has left at least seven people dead, swallowed several villages, displaced 15,000 residents and destroyed 20 factories, all resulting in economic stagnation in the region. On Thursday, Indonesian police...
The State oil company of Mexico, Pemex is in trouble, reports the New York Times. Its production and proven reserves are falling, and it has no money to reverse the slide. This is important for the US because Mexico is...
On February 23rd, the community of energy activists lost one of our earliest and clearest voices for change in the oil industry. Robert Engler, whose many books included the seminal and prescient Brotherhood of Oil passed at his home in...
A new report from Climate Trade Watch, which is affiliated to the Transnational Institute, accuses carbon offset companies of using the same sort of ‘future value accounting’ that caused the collapse of energy giant Enron. The report argues that when...
BP's troubles continue. A US government lending agency has been told by its own internal accountability watchdog that it must monitor more closely the safety of BP's Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, amid allegations that the company failed to report cracks and leaks...
Reporting back from Senator Boxer’s first hearing as chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which included in-person or written statements (all of which will be made publicly available by the Committee) from approximately a third of the...
The oil giant Shell faces a new accounting crisis as the ramifications become clear of its December renegotiation with the Russian authorities over its stake in the Sakhalin 2 joint venture. The company may be forced to cut oil and...
When British Environment Minister Ian Pearson accused U.S. airlines of being "completely irresponsible" about climate change late last year, they are said to have responded with a shrug. So far climate change has been way down their list of worries....
Reports in the Nigerian press suggest twelve chiefs from the Kula community in Rivers State were killed earlier this month, bringing the death-toll in the area to twenty five in oil-related violence. The Vanguard newspaper reports that the Kula Chiefs...
A year after warning that America was addicted to oil, President Bush is expected to renew concerns about energy security in his State of the Union address tomorrow night. But despite his positive rhetoric, little has changed over the last...
