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An abdication of responsibility
When a government responds to one of the worst oil spills in its waters for a decade by appointing the former Chairman of Shell to advise on cutting regulation of the offshore oil and gas industry, something has clearly gone wrong. If the government wants to ramp up extraction from deeper waters but is unwilling to…
15 Sep 2011 admin -
European Commission proposes increase in powers to control energy resources abroad; Libya next on the agenda
The European Commission has for the first time submitted proposals for a concerted public foreign energy policy – termed ‘External Energy Policy’ within Euro circles. The EU has been acting collectively to control oil & gas resources and transit routes for many years – financing pipelines with public funds, lobbying for access to African, Middle…
15 Sep 2011 admin -
UK’s ageing oil rigs are close to collapse, video footage shows
This is the frightening reality of oil extraction in the UK North Sea. Video footage and documents leaked to the the Scottish Sunday Express shows that Shell’s oil rigs are ready to collapse. RUSTING RIGS SPARK FEARS OF OIL TRAGEDY By Paula Murray SHOCKING footage has emerged showing the dire state of Britain’s rust- ing oil…
13 Sep 2011 admin -
Legal analysis: Shell Nigeria lawsuits
Michael D. Goldhaber is an expert on human rights law and corporate accountability in the US. In his recent article in AM Law Daily, he offers up his views on the settlement between claimants from the village of Bodo and Shell over massive oil spills caused by the company in 2008-2009. Royal Dutch Shell has…
13 Sep 2011 admin -
Prirazlomnaya: monstrous pioneer of Arctic drilling
David Cameron today is taking UK oil chiefs on his trade mission to Russia to promote business links following the failure of the BP/Rosneft Arctic deal. Meanwhile, Russia’s first Arctic offshore oil drilling platform Prirazlomnaya has just been installed 60 miles off the coast of Novaya Zemlya, in the Pechora Sea. High-priority national project and…
12 Sep 2011 anna -
When corporate strategies backfire: Shell in Nigeria
When Shell aren’t spilling oil in Nigeria, they’re finding new ways to otherwise lose it. According to reports, one third of Shell’s daily oil extraction in Nigeria – some 300,000 barrels per day – is currently shut in at the Adibawa oil field in Bayelsa State. Shell declared a “force majeure” on 23 August, suspending…
7 Sep 2011 admin -
Camp Frack is coming – can they do it like the French did?
Next weekend Camp Frack will come together to stop fracking for shale gas in the UK. It’s happening in Southport, and I’m excited about it not only because that’s where my Granny’s from, but because it marks a push to follow in the footsteps of French groups and stop fracking before it really gets going.…
6 Sep 2011 admin -
Niger Delta activist to stand trial in Holland
Sunny Ofehe, known as Comrade Sunny to his friends and colleagues, is to stand trial today in a Rotterdam court on charges of conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism. Ofehe was arrested on 22 February 2011, originally on “suspicion of people smuggling and forgery” and has been in detention since then. The Dutch authorities…
5 Sep 2011 admin -
The world’s biggest data leak
On Friday 2 September, Wikileaks finally published the full batch of over 250,000 US diplomatic cables. The unredacted cables are now available online. The decision to dump the data in the open has landed Wikileaks in further controversy and drawn condemnation from its former media partners around the world, due to the possible risk of harm or…
3 Sep 2011 admin
