So the great Iraqi oil sell-off continues. The embattled Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani will today unveil the next round of oil contracts at a conference in Istanbul. Al-Shahristani is under pressure to pull in investment after the Iraqi government’s...
For a decade now – since Ken Saro-Wiwa’s death and the Brent Spar fiasco - Shell has done its utmost to portray itself as a green oil company. It hasn’t quite gone to the lengths of its rival BP and...
Politicians may be talking about a "Green New Deal", and how environmental technologies will kick-start the economy out its current crisis, but one of the world’s largest oil companies does not agree. In a hugely important decision, which will have...
It must be depressing being a banker these days. As stock markets plunge, banks go to the wall and confidence crumbles you will be looking for a safe place to invest your money. Gold is looking a good bet these...
James Hansen is used to speaking his mind. It was twenty years ago that one of the world’s leading climate scientists, first warned the US Congress about the dangers of global warming. “It is time to stop waffling”, he said....
Anyone with time on their hands and a conscience in their heart should head down to Shell’s AGM tomorrow, to join the Corporate Pirates, listen to music from The Carbon Town Crier or comedy from Hands ON Iraqi Oil. Go...
The Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein Al-Shahristani has said the country will likely drop oil service contracts with foreign companies if they don't have their proposals finalized by a June deadline and will move forward with the work on its own....
Just over twelve years ago, the Ogoni activist and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa was murdered by the military junta in Nigeria for campaigning against the ecological destruction of his homeland and for asking for a greater share of the oil wealth....
Thousands of people hit by South Korea's worst oil spill have staged a protest rally in central Seoul to demand swift compensation. Some 3000 marine farmers and other residents dramatised their plight by displaying oil-coated oysters, fish, anchovies and seaweed....
All the signs have been there for a while, but now the head economist of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol has succinctly articulated the growing crisis for the oil majors. They are doomed to become “niche players” in the...
