The Financial Times pulled an Amnesty advert challenging Shell’s pollution in the Niger Delta today. The full page ad was due to appear the morning of Shell’s AGM, to contrast the company’s $9.8 billion profit with its role in causing Nigerian communities to drink polluted water, eat contaminated fish, farm on spoiled land, and breathe in air…

Taimour Lay envisions the potential for a new government in 2011 to renegotiate and restructure Uganda’s oil contracts with Tullow, Total and CNOOC: “Faced with the mess Museveni has bequeathed, the new president will find that the most important thing he ever does in power is to mobilise support for renegotiation of the oil agreements.…

Cross posted from the PLATFORM blog, here is a new report exposing how British oil companies are making huge profits from oil in the Congo. PLATFORM reveals Congo oil contracts that threaten resource wars and $10 billion rip-off Tullow & British Embassy push disputed deal that could cut Congo’s revenues by $10 billion Confidential oil…

Tiny Skytruth have been challenging BP’s estimates on how much crude is spilling out of the Macondo well into the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The organisation began analysing satellite & radar data soon after the Deepwater Horizon rig sank on April 22nd. BP initially claimed 1,000 barrels were spilling daily – after Skytruth pointed…

As the leaking crude in the Gulf of Mexico chokes sperm whales, wipes out local fishing incomes and ruins tourist destinations, we’ll see continued debates over who is to blame. Obama is pointing at BP, insisting the company won’t be let off the hook. BP’s claiming that they weren’t really on the scene – Transocean…

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As crude continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico and Tony Hayward can’t work out what he did “to deserve this”, it turns out the company is having problems with offshore operations in the North Sea as well. The British Health & Safety Executive has warned both both BP & Shell that they are failing to…

Tullow’s controversial drilling in Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda continues to threaten wildlife and local communities’ income, leading to increased opposition. This picture from Tullow shows giraffes impacts by a nearby oil rig inside the park. As reported in our February report “Cursed Contracts”, previous loud construction work by the oil companies in 2009 was followed…

The Oregon (US) based community campaign against the LNG Palomar gas pipeline has been building solidarity connections and investigating impacts of LNG projects elsewhere in the world. In their own words, “In the Pacific Northwest, NW Natural Gas claims that the Palomar pipeline and Bradwood Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal will bring “clean” fuel to the United…