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Oil spill exposes Shell’s ticking timebomb
The Gannet Alpha spill in the North Sea is a stark reminder of the dangers of ageing rigs and oil company PR
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Transforming RBS into “Green Investment Bank” could create 50,000 green jobs
Transforming the Royal Bank of Scotland into the Green Investment Bank would kick start the green energy revolution. The research, by former PricewaterhouseCoopers consultant, James Leaton, finds that it would bring 50, 000 new green jobs a year, increase efficiency, reduce the UK’s carbon emissions and improve international competitiveness – whilst not increasing the budget…
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Why we’re taking the Treasury to Court
This article first appeared in the Guardian Comment is Free on the 20th October 2009. Today we are taking the government to court – Her Majesty’s Treasury to the high courts of justice on the Strand to be precise. The application – made by Platform, World Development Movement and People & Planet – for a judicial review of the Treasury’s lack…
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A view from Tbilisi
The Russia-Georgia conflict and the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline by Manana Kochladze – This article was first published in Platform’s Carbon Web newsletter, issue 10. A new Cold War. Punishment of Georgia’s pro-western tendencies. Reincarnation of a strong Russia. A return to a multipolar world. What all these narratives miss is that the Great Game is old,…
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Conflict in the Caucasus
This article was first published in Platform’s Carbon Web newsletter, issue 10. British troops dispatched to Georgia to protect the flow of Caspian crude oil from Baku from the encroaching Russian threat. This was 1919, when Britain took control of the Black Sea ports of Batumi and Poti, the outlets through which Azeri…
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The ‘Oil for war’ deal – Iraq
This article was first published in Platform’s Carbon Web newsletter, issue 10. In 2002 the future Oil Minister of Iraq, Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum, enthusiastically described the occupation as both a “sort of life insurance for continuing the social and political changes” and “a great incentive for attracting the international oil companies”. On one hand, the…
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INTERVIEW: Kevin Smith of PLATFORM – Unravelling the Carbon Web
Fossil fuels are the primary cause of climate change, which threatens catastrophic damages including massive sea-level rise, rising incidences of flood, drought and other extreme events, major water and food supply reductions, and the spread of disease. PLATFORMs Unraveling the Carbon Web focus is to reduce the environmental and social impacts of oil and to…
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Burning Capital – Exit Strategy II
Back to Black – This article was first published in Platform’s Carbon Web newsletter, issue 9. John Browne is not the first head of BP to leave under a cloud. After Robert Horton, chairman & CEO from 1990-92, was ‘encouraged’ to leave his post, the corporate initiative with which he was identified – ‘Project 1990’…
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Hellfire Economics: Multinational companies and the contract dispute over Kashagan, the world’s largest undeveloped oilfield
Kazakhstan is set to lose up to $20 billion in the next 10 years, due to an unfair contract to extract the world’s largest undeveloped oilfield. These are the findings of a report released today by development and environment organisations, as a dispute between the Kazakhstan government and oil companies failed today to reach its…