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Posts in December 2006

• Arctic: Summer Ice Gone by 2040

  Andy Rowell

  Dec12

  The Arctic could lose virtually all its summer sea ice by the year 2040 – 40 years earlier than previously thought – according to a study by leading climate scientists. A rapid acceleration in the loss of sea ice seen in recent years will be dwarfed by the massive melting, up to four times faster…
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• Sakhalin: Russia Threatens Shell with “Unlimited Fines”

  Andy Rowell

  Dec11

  Shell could be forced to renegotiate the terms of its involvement in the Sakhalin 2 project this week, when the Russian government publishes a damning report on the controversial $20bn (£10.2bn) oil and gas venture. The Anglo-Dutch oil giant also faces hundreds of millions of dollars in fines. A spokesman for Sakhalin Energy, the Shell-led…
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• Carbon “Credit Cards” for UK

  Andy Rowell

  Dec11

  Every UK citizen could be issued with a carbon “credit card” under a carbon rationing scheme that could come into operation within five years, according to a government feasibility study. Cards would be used every time someone bought petrol, paid an energy utility bill or booked an airline ticket.

• Republicans Open Up Gulf of Mexico

  Andy Rowell

  Dec11

  The Republican Congress may be on its last legs but it is still kicking. A plan to open more than 8 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling was included in a tax package that the House approved late last week. It means Big Oil’s proponents are one step away…
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• Don’t Forget Recommendations 62 and 63

  Andy Rowell

  Dec08

  Great blog by Tom Hayden in the Huffington Post about the Iraq Study Group. Writes Hayden: “Recommendations 62 and 63 confirm that control of Iraqi oil is a fundamental premise of Administration policy. Recommendation 62 says the US government should help draft an oil law that “creates a fiscal and legal framework for investment.” It…
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• Stern Quits Treasury After Brown Freezes Him Out

  Andy Rowell

  Dec08

  Feeble Gordon, as he is now known, has fumbled again. UK Chancellor Gorodon Brown not only missed a trick by not acting on the most authoritative report on the economic impacts of climate change in his pre-budget report, but now he has lost the author of the report itself. With embarrassing timing, Sir Nicholas Stern’s…
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• More Kidnaps in Nigeria

  Andy Rowell

  Dec08

  Nigeria’s torrid troubles show no sign of abating with the news that gunmen attacked an Agip oil terminal, killing one person and taking four foreigners hostage. Italy’s Foreign Ministry has confirmed that that three Italians and one Lebanese national were kidnapped.

• Oxy Pulls Out of Peru

  Andy Rowell

  Dec07

  Environmental groups and indigenous leaders have claimed a dramatic victory after Occidental Petroleum Corp confirmed plans to withdraw from a controversial oil and gas venture in Peru. Occidental’s departure, which the company said is contingent on approval by the Peruvian government, follows extensive criticism by NGO’s. One of the company’s biggest critics, Atossa Soltani, executive…
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• Exxon Still Funding the Sceptics

  Andy Rowell

  Dec07

  Exxon is still spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund both European and American organisations that seek to cast doubt on the scientific consensus on global warming, according to a new report by Corporate Europe Observatory, a Brussels-based watchdog. “ExxonMobil invests significant amounts in letting think-tanks, seemingly respectable sources, sow doubts about the need…
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• “Feeble” Brown Fails Green Test

  Andy Rowell

  Dec07

  UK Chancellor Gordon Brown came under strong attack from political opposition parties and green groups after responding to the government’s own dire warnings on climate change with a modest £1bn package of green taxes in his pre-budget report. Little more than a month after the prime minister described the report into climate change by the…
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