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Crackdown intensifies in oil region – Shell pledges to keep paying Syrian regime
The crackdown on the Syrian uprising has intensified in the eastern oil region around Deir Az-Zour. According to the FT, The towns of Mayadin and Burhama were attacked on Wednesday, according to the Local Co-ordination Committees, an activist group, with tanks and machine guns used during mass arrest campaigns. Another local resident said she had…
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Shell has admitted liability but has a long way to go to make amends
This article first appeared in The Guardian, Comment is Free on 4 August 2011. by Patrick Naagbanton, as told to Ben Amunwa Oil spills destroyed my village in Nigeria and decades of environmental and social injustice are still to be addressed Shell’s admission of liability for two massive oil spills in 2008-09 in my village of…
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Death knell or crying wolf?
This briefing by Platform and Greenpeace examines George Osborne’s changes to North Sea tax, and how the oil industry might not have it as bad as they are making it out to be. It then considers ways in which the Chancellor may respond to the industry’s campaign against the changes.
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First Nations protest tar sands investment at Royal Bank of Scotland AGM
Canadian First Nations representatives to voice opposition in person at RBS AGM New research shows that, since public bail-out in 2008, RBS has raised more than £5.6 billion for companies involved in controversial Canadian tar sands projects, £2.2 billion of which was in the last twelve months Representatives from some of Canada’s First Nations are…
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Dirty Money – Corporate greenwash and RBS coal finance
All over the world, diverse groups from community activists to schoolchildren, small businesses to faith-based networks, are starting to take action on climate change. Big business is following suit, but often with tactics that bring their integrity into question. Climate change is being used as to create a new kind of brand identity, without any…
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Follow the Money
Follow the Money – RBS article in Foto8 Magazine (This article first appeared in the current, oil-themed issue of Foto8 magazine – https://www.foto8.com/new/in-print/8-magazine ) Despite the fact that there is not a single drop of crude to be found underneath the streets of London, the city acts as one the international capitals of the oil…
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World remembers Saro-Wiwa hangings
This blog post first appeared in the Comment Factory on 12 November 2010. World remembers Saro-Wiwa hangings by Ben Amunwa Fifteen years ago, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others were executed by the Nigerian military government, in collaboration with Shell Nigeria. The oil giant is under fresh scrutiny after secret documents revealed in The Guardian expose how Shell tried to cover…
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Campaigners condemn link between public money and Cairn’s Arctic drilling
RBS provided loan to oil company one month before it acquired rig for arctic drilling Joint press release from PLATFORM, Friends of the Earth Scotland and the World Development Movement A coalition of environmental and social justice organisations in the UK are condemning the use of public money, through 83% publicly owned RBS, to provide…
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Oil firms must compensate the people of Nigeria
Platform coordinated this letter in the Observer newspaper, originally published on 4 July 2010. Oil firms must compensate the people of Nigeria Grilled in Congress, shares down to £3 and forced to pledge billions of dollars in compensation, BP is paying the price for the damage it has caused in the Gulf of Mexico –…