As the shale gas boon sweeps America, there is a key battle going on between the oil and gas industry and environmentalists about the environmental impact of fracturing. Fracturing - where chemicals, sand and water are used to separate the...
Ask any oil executive where our future energy will come from and they will reply that the answer lies in "the mix": arguing we need oil, gas, renewables and probably nuclear. The oil industry argues that its days as the...
In Washington this morning the big story is political reform of the healthcare system, whereas in London it is once again good –old fashioned political sleaze. Channel 4's Dispatches programme working with the Sunday Times have carried out a great...
Pardon the title, but the Wall Street Journal has an extremely interesting interview with the top dog at Shell, Peter Voser. He admits that Shell is fast becoming a gas company rather than an oil company. “Shell started quite a...
The start of an unusual mobilisation of pension fund members has been kicked off by the British organisation FairPensions to hold BP and Shell to account for their investment in the dirty Canadian tar sands. The idea is simple: individuals...
Having written about Shell in Nigeria for over fifteen years, we have known that there was huge internal disquiet about the company’s operations in the country. In the aftermath of the murder of Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995, Shell...
When we talk about wars for oil, the first and second Gulf wars spring to mind. First it was Kuwait and then Iraq. But cast your minds back even further to the Falklands conflict in the eighties. You could ask...
For a company that prides itself on long-term planning, Shell sometimes seems to be a company that could not plan its way out of a paper bag. Just over a decade ago it made a big song and dance about...
[caption id="attachment_4278" align="alignleft" width="210" caption="Cartoon by Nick Anderson"][/caption] As a writer what I find interesting is the corruption of the language and the evidence by the sceptics. Yesterday I posted a blog that was based on Rolling Stone’s list of...
[caption id="attachment_4261" align="alignleft" width="156" caption="By Victor Juhasz "] [/caption] Its not often now in journalism that someone tells you how it is and puts their neck on the line in no nonsense language. So good old Rolling Stone - the...
