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  • Throwing Whaaps to the Wind

    Throwing Whaaps to the Wind

    Marianne Brownโ€™s The Shetland Way tells how an unjust energy transition has left lasting division and biodiversity loss on the Shetland isles.

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    17 Jul 2025 Flick
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  • READ: The People Will Possess The Wind

    READ: The People Will Possess The Wind

    The People will Possess the Wind was commissioned by Estuary Festival for Estuary 2025. Read the booklet now.

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    17 Jun 2025 admin
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  • ุงู„ุนู†ู ุงู„ู…ุตุงุญุจ ู„ุชุบูŠู‘ุฑ ุงู„ู…ู†ุงุฎ ููŠ ู…ุตุฑ

    ุงู„ุนู†ู ุงู„ู…ุตุงุญุจ ู„ุชุบูŠู‘ุฑ ุงู„ู…ู†ุงุฎ ููŠ ู…ุตุฑ

    ู…ูŠูƒุง ู…ูŠู†ูŠูˆ ุจุงู„ูˆูŠู„ู„ูˆ ููŠ ุฎุถู… ุงู„ุญุฑูƒุงุช ุงู„ุซูˆุฑูŠุฉ ููŠ ุงู„ุณู†ูˆุงุช ุงู„ุฃุฎูŠุฑุฉุŒ ู„ูŠุณ ู…ู† ุงู„ุณู‡ู„ ุฃู„ุง ู†ู„ุงุญุธ ุฃู† ุชุบูŠุฑ ุงู„ู…ู†ุงุฎ ู‚ุฏ ุจุฏุฃ ูŠุบูŠุฑ ุงู„ุดุฑู‚ ุงู„ุฃูˆุณุท ูˆุดู…ุงู„ ุฃูุฑูŠู‚ูŠุง ุŒุญูŠุซ ู†ุนูŠุดุŒ ุชุบูŠูŠุฑุงู‹ ุฌุฐุฑูŠุงู‹. ู‡ุฐุง ุงู„ุชุญูˆู„ ุงู„ุชุฏุฑูŠุฌูŠุŒ ุงู„ุฐูŠ ูŠุตุนุจ ุชุฌู†ุจู‡ุŒ ูŠู‡ุฏุฏ ุจู†ุฒูˆุญ ุงู„ู…ู„ุงูŠูŠู† ู…ู† ุงู„ุจุดุฑุŒ ุฅู† ู„ู… ูŠูƒู† ุนุดุฑุงุช ุงู„ู…ู„ุงูŠูŠู†ุŒ ูˆ ุจุชุบูŠูŠุฑ ุดูƒู„ ุงู„ู…ู†ุทู‚ุฉ ุจุดูƒู„ ู‚ุฏ ูŠุตุนุจ ุงู„ุชุนุฑู ุนู„ูŠู‡ุง. ูˆ…

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    29 Apr 2015 admin
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  • Algรฉrie : L’approvisionnement de l’Europe en gaz algรฉrien est-il plus important que les droits humains ?

    Algรฉrie : L’approvisionnement de l’Europe en gaz algรฉrien est-il plus important que les droits humains ?

    Cet articleย ecrit parHamza Hamouchene est apparu initialement sur le journal Algerien, El Watan Avec la rรฉduction dramatique de la production de gaz de la Mer du Nord, promouvoirย ย l’Algรฉrie en tant qu’exportateur majeur de gaz naturel est devenu une stratรฉgie รฉconomique impรฉrative pour lโ€™Europe. Le pays se distingue par sa position particuliรจre dans la politique รฉnergรฉtique…

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    3 Sep 2013 admin
  • A New Frontier: the rush for oil and gas in East Africa

    A New Frontier: the rush for oil and gas in East Africa

    This article was written by Taimour Lay who investigated the activities of oil companies in East Africa for Platform. It first appeared on the African Arguments website. When you stand on the island of Rukwanzi at the heart of Lake Albert, your first thought, echoing perhaps the casual rhetoric of the region’s oil men, is…

    Article
    29 May 2012 admin
  • Risking ruin: Shell’s investments in Tar Sands, the Arctic and Nigeria

    This article first appeared as an introduction to a report, Risking Ruin: Shell’s dangerous developments in the Tar Sands, Arctic and Nigeria, published on 18 May 2012 by Indigenous Environmental Network and Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation. As economic austerity bites, major oil companies are making staggering profits. A high oil price in 2011 made Shell $30.92 billion in annual…

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    18 May 2012 admin
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  • Shell admits funding Niger Delta “warlords”

    Shell admits funding Niger Delta “warlords”

    This guest blog for Greenpeace UKย was written by Ben Amunwa and first published on 2 May 2012.ย  A recent video published online shows a Shell executive admitting that the oil giant could easily be funding what he describes as โ€œwarlordsโ€ and militants in Nigeria. You canย watch the video here, (see 57mins – 1hr). The admission…

    Article
    2 May 2012 admin
  • El oscuro historial de Shell en Nigeria

    This article was first published in the Spanish newspaper, Diagonal, NรšMERO 166 on 24 January 2012.ย  by Ben Amunwa El 20 de diciembre de 2011, una fuga en la plataforma petrolรญfera de mar abierto de Shell en Bonga, una de las mayores de esta multinacional en Nigeria, derramรณ 40.000 barriles de petrรณleo al ocรฉano Atlรกntico.…

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    24 Jan 2012 admin
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  • British foreign policy and the ‘Arab Spring’: the transition to democracy

    Evidence submitted by Platform to the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee: UK foreign policy on Libya focused excessively on improving relationships with the Gaddafi regime and promoting British business interests, at the expense of human rights and engaging with popular and oppositional opinion.

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    12 Dec 2011 anna
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