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An horrific story in today’s New York Times about how a global oil company dumped up to 400 tons of toxic waste on the doorstep of some of the world's poorest people in the Ivory Coast in order to save...

Professor Chris Rapley, director of the British Antarctic Survey, has warned that sea-level rise is increasing much faster than scientists predicted just five years ago. This is severely threatening many of the world's coastal and low-lying areas from Bangladesh to...

The corrosion crisis within the oil industry continues to spread. Now Shell has been criticised by the shareholder action group, the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility (ECCR) over its corroded gas pipes in Ireland. Canon Christopher Hall, a Shell shareholder...

The violence in Nigeria shows no sign of abating with the news that five oil workers were abducted from a notorious nightclub in Port Harcourt the oil capital of the Niger Delta in Nigeria at the weekend. The five were...

The dragon is thirsty. China's consumption of oil has risen exponentially in the past decade and by last year it was the largest oil importer after the US. Slowly but surely China is buying up foreign oil and gas reserves...

Its great to see the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world, The Observer doing a pull-out section on energy to inform its readers on climate change and renewables. … the only slight problem is that the whole edition is in...

More greenwashing from Shell. The company has just released it Sustainability report for 2005. Shell and sustainability you might reason is a contradiction in terms. Not so, argues the company. The report is part of is “continuing dialogue with stakeholders,”...

The favorite topic du jour in DC these days is the price of gas - and this being DC - the blame game around it. The right talks about the lack of supply - and says the solution lies in...

BP's CEO, John Browne, has warned that fear was driving the price of crude to artificially high levels, with "untold consequences" for the global economy. He argued that turbulence in Iran, Iraq and Nigeria was leading to continual speculation about...

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...