Just a few weeks ago the online debate would have been unthinkable. But today, the Times newspaper, Britain’s bastion of the establishment and the powerhouse of the Murdoch media empire, is asking its readers whether the embattled boss of BP...
Breaking developments from Nigeria about the oil company Shell returning to Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Ogoni region. Yesterday’s Nigerian Vanguard newspaper ran the headline “Shell Resumes Operations In Ogoni”. The paper reported how “fifteen years after it was chased out of Ogoni...
A key US Congressional committee has voted overwhelmingly to pass a wide-ranging bill that would toughen U.S. sanctions on Iran and on companies that invest in the country. Although the bill, if passed into law, would sanction any investment in...
After 20 years of isolation, Libya has become the new “destination of choice” for oil companies trying to find new reserves. "It's a race for our black gold," president of the National Oil Company Shukri Ghanem said. "We are organising...
Later today, some of BP’s most senior executives will face their first Congressional grilling over their corrosion problems at Prudhoe Bay. Although BP's embattled CEO Sir John Browne won't be testifying, Bob Malone, the new head of BP America will...
George W. Bush, who proclaimed America’s “oil addiction,” in his January State of the Union address, exhibited a classic symptom of addiction Tuesday: denial. As the price of a gallon of gas heads for (and beyond) three dollars, Mr. Bush...
Lush is donating 75% of profits from their new body bar to OCI and aligned groups this Climate Week — available now in stores and online!
Despite an array of new ‘net zero’ pledges released in the past two years, the climate promises of major U.S. and European oil and gas companies still fail to meet the bare minimum for alignment with the Paris Agreement, according...
New research shows stop funding fossils commitment forged at the 2021 UN climate summit is already shifting an estimated USD 5.7 billion per year out of fossil fuels and into clean energy. If all signatories fulfill their commitments, then a...
This report, “Public Enemies: Assessing MDB and G20 international finance institutions’ energy finance” looks at G20 country and MDB traceable international public finance for fossil fuels from 2020-2022 and finds they are still backing at least USD 47 billion per...
