Under pressure to preserve the environment while at the same time ease the poverty of his people, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has come up with an unusual and novel solution. President Rafael Correa has startled Wall Street with talk of...
Iraq's Kurdish regional government plans to invite foreign bids on 40 new oil blocks in anticipation that the country’s controversial oil law will be passed soon. It forms part of plans to increase daily output to one million barrels in...
On 7th July there will be 'Live Earth' concerts all around the globe to draw attention to climate change. The tickets are all sold and the perfomers are already chosen. But at www.aliveearth.org an alternative concert is already underway- a...
Daryl Hannah, the actress turned environmentalist, is adding her voice to the campaign demanding redress for the inhabitants of Ecuador's Amazon region, which has been blighted by 30 years of oil exploration by Texaco. The 46-year-old star of Splash and...
A coalition of relief and development agencies like Christian Aid and Tearfund will warn 600 delegates to the ‘UN 3rd World Conference on Disaster Reduction’ in Geneva today of the dangers of climate change. The agencies will warn delegates that...
A protest by Ogoni villagers at a major oil export pipeline complex in Nigeria has entered its fourth day. Villagers from K-Dere occupied the pipeline hub at Bomu, which feeds the Bonny shipping terminal, and forced Shell to shut 150...
The Chinese Government is close to dropping tariffs on technologies that increase energy efficiency and decrease pollution in what would be the country’s biggest move towards tackling global warming. Wu Yi, the Chinese Vice-Premier, is in advanced talks about energy...
This is a really hot political potato. The British BG Group is poised to agree the terms of an historic $4 billion deal to supply Palestinian gas to Israel from a discovery off the Gaza coastline. Representatives from BG are...
After two years as President at the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, architect of the Iraq war, tendered his resignation on Thursday evening. "I have concluded that it is in the best interests of those whom this institution serves for that...
Following on from our previous blog about Oxy being accused of dumping oil in the Amazon, the oil company has now been sued by Earthrights International on behalf of the Achuar people. The claim alleges that over the course of...
