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Shell obstructs Nigerian efforts to end gas flaring
Nigerian investors attempting to end gas flaring in Nigeria have publicly accused Shell and other international oil companies of obstructing their plans. The Nigerian companies signed a Memo of Understanding with the Nigerian government to divert the gas to domestic power generation in December 2009. The international oil companies continue to flare gas causing a…
12 Feb 2010 admin -
Mora County tells Shell to Frack Off
Local opposition is slowing Shell’s plans to drill for “tight gas” in Mora County in North-Western Arizona. Until recently, extracting “tight” or “shale gas” wasn’t economically viable, due to the smaller quantities dispersed across a wider rock deposit. However, new techniques known as “hydraulic fracturing” or “fracking” allow oil & gas corporations to access these…
6 Feb 2010 admin -
Alaskan professor stripped of funding for criticising oil companies
Internationally recognised marine scientist Rick Steiner was forced to resign his position as professor and conservation specialist at the University of Alaska Marine Advisory Program in Anchorage. Prof Steiner has played an important role in recent years in raising concerns over oil company, particularly Shell, operations in Sakhalin, Alaska and Nigeria. Pressure from the oil…
4 Feb 2010 admin -
New legal action over latest RBS bail out
Last November’s £25 billion cash injection deemed ‘unlawful’ by campaigners Treasury’s intervention in bankers’ bonuses strengthens campaigners case Three pressure groups today served the Treasury with their application to the High Court, challenging last November’s decision to provide a further £25 billion of public money to the Royal Bank of Scotland. According to the Treasury’s…
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Royal Bank of Sustainability?
At the end of 2008, UK taxpayers became majority owners of the Royal Bank of Scotland, one of Britain’s largest banks. So, since we’ve paid for it, shouldn’t we have some say in how it is run? Kevin Smith, from the campaigning organisation Platform, puts the case – https://www.redpepper.org.uk/Royal-Bank-of-Sustainability/. In the year since it was…
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Legal challenge against Shell’s Arctic Chukchi plans
First Nation and environmental groups in Alaska are legally challenging Shell’s permit to drill in the Arctic Chukchi Sea this summer. The Chukchi lies north of the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia and is habitat for endangered species including bowhead whales, walrus and polar bears, which play a crucial role in the way of…
21 Jan 2010 admin -
Oil companies provide equipment to military in Congo
Another investigation by Taimour Lay shows the risks of Tullow & Heritage’s oil finds on Lake Albert fueling new fighting between armed forces (armies and militias) in the region. “Heritage Oil, owned by former mercenary fighter Tony Buckingham, had donated speed boats to the FARDC (Congolese national army) in March 2007 and had also been…
5 Jan 2010 admin -
Breaking: Shell to stand trial in the Hague for Nigeria oil spills
Positive news this morning as a Dutch court ruling announced that four Nigerian farmers and Friends of the Earth Netherlands can hold Royal Dutch Shell and Shell Nigeria accountable, a short distance from Shell’s global headquarters in The Hague. For more details please see the press release from Friends of the Earth Netherlands. If found…
30 Dec 2009 admin -
Tar Sands & corruption in Colorado
As the California Zephyr climbs slowly into the Rockies, my fellow train passengers in the observation carriage stare in silence through the enormous windows, as we pass hundreds of miles of narrow gorges, red rock cliffs and frozen waterfalls. Coyotes run through the snow as the train approaches, while studious bald eagles perched above streams ignore us,…
18 Dec 2009 admin
