The BP spill on the North Slope is still reverberating - here is a post to the "safepipelines" discussion group: "You know I get asked all the time variations of; 'what do you expect'. What do you expect us to...
I remember at the time of the Exxon Valdez spill that one of the Trustees of the Oil Spill Board said something like "Lawyers not yet born will work on this one".And so it seems. The legal case is still...
The WSJ reports that ExxonMobil is the key funder of a front group called Public Interest Watch which has been pushing the IRS to audit Greenpeace. Greenpeace says an IRS auditor told it that the PIW letter triggered the audit....
BP – the oil company that is running an unprecedented public relations campaign trying to portray the company as green and caring - was last week responsible for the largest ever oil spill on Alaska’s North Slope. Last week’s spill...
Are we witnessing an about-turn in energy thinking in the UK? The Labour government, worried by climate change and energy security, is in the middle of a review on energy that will be published in the summer. All the pundits...
Two contrasting views of Africa this week in the British press. On Wednesday The Financial Times published a "Special Report" on Africa's oil and gas, giving it an upbeat assessment. Under the headline: "Continent all set to balance power" the...
A new study in the journal Science has found that the Antarctic ice sheet is melting so fast it is contributing to the rise in global sea levels. The first ever satellite study of the continent's ice inventory has revealed...
So the spiral of violence in Nigeria continues. Although six hostages being held by militant youths in the Delta region of Nigeria have been released, a further three are still being held. Moreover the group holding the hostages - the...
I always thought the one problem with carbon markets or pollution credits is that they allow companies to carry on polluting. They don't actually fix the problem. Now the UK policy group, the Cornerhouse has published a briefing attacking carbon...
On the day that Tony Blair hosts a crisis Downing Street summit to address what he calls "the major long-term threat facing our planet", there is more bad news for the climate. The Guardian reports how "the Earth's temperature could...
