Tories “Dismantle” EU Offshore Safety Rules
A group of British MEPs, led by Conservative Vicky Ford, have been secretly trying to “dismantle” the EU's offshore oil and gas safety regulation
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Shell in Nigeria: Its Worse than Bad
And so it goes on. It might be a different day but the ongoing vortex of violence, pollution, protest and conflict continues in the Niger Delta. The oil giant, Shell is at the middle of this vortex, as it has...
Locals Vent Anger After Chevron Refinery Fire
The fire that engulfed Chevron’s refinery late on Monday night in Richmond, California may now be extinguished, but worrying questions remain about the company’s ongoing safety record at the refinery. The fire caused a huge toxic black cloud to sweep...
Oil Industry Profits: The big, the bad and the subsidized
Sources: Compiled from the quarterly results of each company, publicly available on the investor pages of each company's websites. $135 billion Not the 2010 GDP of Hungary or Kuwait, no it's slightly more than either of those. In fact,...
Climate Sceptics Exposed
It was not probably the Valentine’s present the leading climate sceptic organisation, the Heartland Institute, was expecting. But after years of exploiting ClimateGate and leaks from climate scientists, yesterday they were on the receiving end of their very own leak....
Britain Backs Canada Over Tar Sands Fight
On a warm summer evening in July this year, in the prestigious and ornate College Garden of Britain’s historic Westminster Abbey, 250 guests listened to a five-piece band. The music was the start of an inaugural summer party organised by...
Dave Versus the Dinosaurs
When British Prime Minister, David Cameron staked his reputation on leading “the greenest government ever” he knew that many people would hold him to account to make sure his words translated into action. People also knew that he had a...
One Year Later: BP’s Contamination Continues
BP’s AGM tomorrow is set to be a tumultuous affair with the oil giant having to absorb criticism over the legacy of the it's catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, its investment in the dirty Canadian tar sands...
10,000 March for Climate Justice
About 10,000 activists marched yesterday in Washington on the "Make Big Polluters Pay" march. The march was the culmination of the third "PowerShift" event. Over the weekend activists had heard speeches from the likes of former Vice President Al Gore,...
“There is little to no chance of less than 2C rise”
A year ago at the Copenhagen conference, the talk was all about deals and final agreements that would put the world on the road to a low carbon future. This year, at Cancun, the expectations are so low that just...