Earlier this year I worked with Friends of the Earth on a report that exposed the extent of Canadian lobbying on the Fuel Quality Directive (FQD), a landmark piece of legislation by the EU which hopes to reduce CO2 emissions...
Find out how much oil money your elected representatives take by visiting the Dirty Energy Money site. Washington, D.C.---U.S. Senators that blocked a vote on legislation to end taxpayer subsidies to oil companies have received five times more in campaign...
Sometimes the best protests are the most simple and symbolic. Yesterday, Shell’s shareholders and senior management at the company’s AGM in the Hague were presented with an “erratum” to the company’s recent Annual Report. The spoof report by Friends of...
Its not a new concept that the oil majors are struggling to come up with new reserves, but its not often that it is written in black and white. Well pink, actually. Today’s Financial Times has one of its special...
I have explored enough on this blog how the perception that the Deepwater disaster would somehow be a game changer for the oil industry now looks wildly over optimistic and premature. There were always going to be winners and losers...
Earlier this month, I blogged how the tar sands lobby was trying to exploit BP’s Gulf of Mexico spill. Well the pro-tar sands argument has once again been blown out of the water by a report from the social investment...
The London-based environmental group Platform was the first group to analyse the oil contracts in Iraq called Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs), which gave lucrative terms to the international oil companies. Now they have turned their attention to the rapidly expanding...
Earlier in the week I blogged about how British banks were under fire for their investment in the tar sands. But they are not the only ones. There are also home-grown banks investing in the destruction of their own country....
Over the last few days the blogosphere has been chewing over Obama’s offshore drilling plan and the general consensus is that, well, its a complete waste of time. The drilling will not reduce gasoline prices nor will it reduce America’s...
Oil Giant BP faces a barrage of criticism from investors at today's AGM at the Excel Centre in London Docklands over the environmental cost of its controversial tar sands project in Canada. BP’s showcase presentation to investors and shareholders is...
