Breaking developments from Nigeria about the oil company Shell returning to Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Ogoni region. Yesterday’s Nigerian Vanguard newspaper ran the headline “Shell Resumes Operations In Ogoni”. The paper reported how “fifteen years after it was chased out of Ogoni...
Ecuador is reopening its main oil pipeline, three days after a landslide ruptured an 80-meter (262-foot) section of the duct, spilling thousands of barrels of oil into the local environment. The ecological fallout from the 4,000 barrel spill in a...
Climate change poses "serious security risks" and fighting it should be part of "preventive security policy", according to the European Union's top diplomats. The warning is contained in a paper prepared for an EU summit this month by Javier Solana,...
Nigeria “wasted” 30 years of oil income, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn said yesterday as he warned the country against the dangers of neglecting the non-oil sectors of its economy. “Nigeria has had 40 years...
Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive, yesterday gave the market a strong signal that he wants to realise value from the company’s loss-making investments in renewables. BP has invested billions of dollars in solar energy over the past decade but the...
Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua has called on the oil companies operating in the Niger Delta to do more to help local people ahead of drawing up a bill to reform the country's oil industry. "I urge you to further commit...
Known oil, gas and coal reserves may already contain a quarter more carbon than mankind can emit and still avoid dangerous climate change, putting the value of new oil exploration in doubt, a former oil major executive has said. Reiterating...
The true scale of climate change emissions from shipping is almost three times higher than previously believed, according to a leaked UN study. It calculates that annual emissions from the world's merchant fleet have already reached 1.12bn tonnes of CO2,...
Members of Congress Who Take More Money from Big Oil Vote More Often for Big Oil at the Expense of the Public Interest
For those worried about oil sands development in Alberta in Canada and what they will do to the climate and environment, they might also have to start worrying about events closer to home. Analysts say the lower 48 U.S. states...
