RBS Wriggles Over Tar Sand Investments
Has RBS stopped financing the tar sands?
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Extraction and Disclosure
This is a guest post from Phil Mattera, over at the always vital Dirt Digger's Digest: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission often behaves like a watchdog with no teeth, but it has just stood up to intense pressure from...
World Bank Executives: Stop Defending Dirty Energy for the Poor
The World Bank Group, perhaps the best-known publicly-funded international development institution, is pitched in an important battle over the future of its energy lending. Unfortunately, if some Bank executives have their way, the new Energy Strategy will become a blueprint...
The “Great Oil Thief”
The brutal reality of the resource curse in Africa is once again laid bare. The latest revelations from Wikileaks is that the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has siphoned $9bn in oil money and deposited it in foreign accounts, many of...
The 5 Gigatonne Gap
The mood may be different this year, but the message is the same. The time to act is now. If we are to keep global temperatures to below a 2 degrees Celsius rise, nations have to implement the pledges made...
NWF Attack Oil Industry’s “Assault on America”
Yesterday Shell waded into the Deepwater fall-out by defending deep-water drilling. Peter Voser, Shell chief executive, argued that deep-water drilling still had an important role to play in global energy supply. “We have got growth potential there”. But what cost...
“Probably the most notorious branding crisis in memory”
First Greenpeace ran a competition to help BP redesign its logo, and now the Washington Post is running a competition for the public to suggest slogans to help BP repair its battered image. The competition is running until tomorrow noon,...
BP Losing Twitter War
BP has a problem. No its not the tens of millions of gallons of crude oil floating or submerged in the Gulf of Mexico. No its not the countless wildlife or fish or shrimps dying across the Gulf. No its...
A Vital Week for BP – Will it Sink or Swim?
So the viral joke on the internet is that whether it be oil spills or footballs – England can’t contain either. After England goalie Robert Green’s disastrous mistake against the US on Saturday night at the World Cup – can...
Wiwa v Shell Settled
The ShellGuilty Campaign: ROYAL DUTCH SHELL FORCED TO SETTLE HUMAN RIGHTS CASE OUT OF COURT Damning Evidence Reveals Shell’s Complicity with Crimes Against Humanity; Landmark Case Resolved in Favor of Families of Executed Nigerian Environmental Leader Ken Saro-Wiwa and Others...