As many parts of Britain remain under feet of water, Northern Alabama in the US is suffering its worst drought for over a century. It has become acre after acre of shriveled cornstalks, cracked red dirt, and unrelenting white heat,...
In March, an EPA science panel unanimously agreed that smog-producing ozone levels should be lowered. But the White House’s Office of Management and Budget held a series of close-door meetings (including one which even excluded the EPA), industry lobbyists claimed...
Nigerian troops have killed eight suspected militants near an Italian-operated oil field in the Niger Delta. The killings happened in Bayelsa state on Tuesday just after militant groups released 19 hostages as part of a nascent peace initiative between the...
Opec has warned western countries that their efforts to develop biofuels as an alternative energy source to combat climate change risks driving the price of oil “through the roof”. Abdalla El-Badri, secretary-general of OPEC, said it was considering cutting its...
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...
Big Oil went on the defensive this week, being grilled before a House Judiciary Committee antitrust panel. It denied denying accusations that mismanagement and a lack of competition are the reasons behind this spring's record gasoline prices in the US....
Further to Steve’s blog on Saturday – more on the New York Times story. Between 100,000 and 300,000 barrels a day of Iraq’s declared oil production over the past four years is unaccounted for and could have been siphoned off...
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....
A pair of recent articles from UPI correspondent Ben Lando, here and here, flesh out the details as to the importance of Iraq's oil unions and their long and storied past. The unions, which have been cut out of the...
Ok, I know we have written about Blair’s hypocrisy on climate before, but it’s once again there for all to see. In the run up to the Brussels summit later this week, Blair has called on fellow European leaders “to...
