Anyone following the palm oil debate would not have been surprised by the findings of the BBC’s top investigative programme Panorama earlier in the week, which investigated the industry. Using GPS technology and satellite imaging, the BBC exposed how the...
Having written about Shell in Nigeria for over fifteen years, we have known that there was huge internal disquiet about the company’s operations in the country. In the aftermath of the murder of Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995, Shell...
As promised from yesterday, here are the top dozen Climate Killers from Rolling Stones list. According to the magazine, “the polluters and deniers are aiding Big Oil and Big Coal's campaign to block progress on global warming”. I am sure...
Talk about sending mixed messages to the Copenhagen talks. Yesterday, Steve blogged about how one Obama government agency - the Import -Export Bank had approved $3 billion for an Exxon gas project. The move was a clear sop to the...
Increasingly it looks like Barack Obama will make only one trip to Scandinavia next month – and that is not going to be to Copenhagen and the climate talks. Instead he will be going to Oslo to pick up his...
At the end of the day energy comes down to economics. Drilling oil out of the deserts of the Middle East is inherently more profitable than boiling them out of Canadian boreal forest. Any deal at Copenhagen will hinge on...
Their motto is “sometimes it takes a lie to expose the truth”. And yesterday that is what happened. It was billed as a dramatic announcement: the US Chamber of Commerce, the old dinosaur business organisation that leads the business lobby...
For all the people who dared to dream that some kind of deal could be realised at Copenhagen comes the cold reality that time is basically running out. Fast. And there is less than sixty days to go. The Bangkok...
Timed with perfection to undermine the meeting between Canada’s Premier Stephen Harper and Barack Obama, Greenpeace has issued a new report labelling Canada as a “climate change bully” that is doing everything in its power to undermine a new agreement...
Anyone who regularly reads this blog – or any other oil-related one – will know that the oil majors are running out of places to find oil. That’s why countries with huge reserves such as Iraq and Libya are seen...
