And so it goes on. Three soldiers and eight militants were killed over the weekend in a gun battle at an oil pipeline hub operated by Shell in Nigeria's southern state of Bayelsa. Shell said the Tora manifold, which sends...
Pat the Polar Bear joined the Oil Change International team to greet Alberta’s Premier Ed Stelmach during his tar sands promotional trip to Washington, D.C. Even as Canadians rank climate as one of their highest concerns, the country is moving...
Several green groups have sued Shell Oil and its affiliates, claiming the oil giant has for years released pollutants from its suburban Houston refinery that are well above state and federal limits. In their federal lawsuit, the Sierra Club and...
Environment groups are coming together to protest against plans by the US government to open up a vast area of Arctic sea off Alaska for oil exploration, arguing it poses an unacceptable new threat to polar bears and walruses. The...
While many impoverished American families are shivering in the winter cold for lack of money to pay the oil baron their exorbitant price for home heating oil, ex-oil man, George W. Bush sleeps in a warm White House and relishes...
A Canadian oil-field worker has been stunned to get a C$85,000 cell phone bill. Piotr Staniaszek, a 22-year-old oil and gas well tester in rural northwest Alberta, has become an international media star after his father went to the press...
In a move that is said to have surprised even some environmentalists, the US House of Representatives has put forward a $21 billion energy package, including repealing tax breaks given to oil companies in 2005. The bill will cause problems...
Statoil, the Norwegian national oil company, has begun a two-year drilling programme in Arctic waters to determine the potential of Norway’s share of one of the world’s few remaining unexplored oil prospects. It also hopes to co-operate with Russian companies...
Oxfam has joined the growing list of organizations criticizing the latest rush to grow biofuels. The EU wants to cut the CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels and has demanded that 10% of all transport fuels should come from plants...
Thousands of jobs are expected to go at BP over the next two years after the new CEO, Tony Hayward, announced plans yesterday for a “fundamental shift” in the way the oil giant operates around the world. The Times reports...
