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From the Delta to the Sea

Often in the 24 hour news world, stories are reported at such a rate that no one ever takes a step back to see if they are joined up. No one ever seems to ask searching questions to see if...

Chevron Guilty

In an historic victory, a small court in Lago Agrio, in Ecuador's Amazon has ordered that Chevron  pay some $8.6 billion in damages. The court ruled in favour of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon who have spent the last...

Tar Sands Threatens Canada-EU Deal

This is a diplomatic row that has been rumbling for some time and it could get nasty. Back in 2009, the EU proposed legislation that would cut imports of dirty tar sands from Canada, as part of its Fuel Quality...

Drilling Resumes, but Doubts Remain

Yesterday the US Interior Department approved the first new deepwater drilling permit since BP’s Deepwater disaster last April. The permit for Noble Energy to drill about 70 miles southeast of Venice, Florida, comes more than four months after the Interior...

OPEC’s “Fictional” Comfort Blanket

Many people are now getting jittery about Saudi Arabia. Protesters in the Kingdom have called for a "day of rage" his Friday to show their dissatisfaction with King Abdullah's regime. Meanwhile the King has tried to head off serious unrest...

Nigeria: “Shell has access to everything”

One of the main concerns of the Ogoni activist and writer, Ken Saro-Wiwa was the collusion between Shell and the Nigerian Government. We already know that this collusion went from the top levels of the government to routine logistical and...

Now Fracking Starts In Britain

Despite the ongoing serious concerns about pollution from hydraulic fracturing or fracking in the US, the technology is set to be used in the UK too. Such is the concern in the US that the state of New York has...

“Clean” Obama Versus Newt King Coal?

So we have been here before. A year ago Obama called for the ending of fossil fuel subsidies in his state of the Union address. Since then we have had two significant events: the Gulf oil spill, that you would...

After a Pause for Breath, Let’s Drill Baby…

It was always a matter of time before the Obama Administration buckled under the intense pressure of the oil industry and Gulf States and let drilling resume in the Gulf. Weeks earlier than expected, the administration lifted the moratorium on...