The Wilderness Society is urging people to oppose the Bush Administration’s plans to sacrifice one of the world’s most important ecosystems in Alaska.
Although nearly ninety percent of this region is already open to oil and gas drilling, the ecologically fragile area around Teshekpuk Lake is so important to Native communities and wildlife that it has […]

Nigeria has become the latest country to signal it wants to review its contracts with international oil companies as part of a major shake-up in the energy sector. It will inevitably lead to tougher financial conditions for the oil companies.
Rilwanu Lukman, chairman of Nigeria’s oil and gas reform committee, said in his first public remarks […]

BP agreed last night to pay $303m to settle charges that it had manipulated the propane gas market in the United States.
BP was charged last year with price-rigging by cornering the propane market during illegal energy trading in 2004. A Department of Justice lawsuit alleged that one trader told another: “Dude, you’re the […]

As part of the “No War No Warming” demonstration 68 protesters were arrested yesterday in Washington, after they blocked Capitol Hill employees from arriving to work.
“The link between war and warming is oil” said Steve Kretzmann of Oil Change International. “The oil industry gave $10 million in campaign contributions to this Congress. Perhaps this […]

New scientific research warns that climate change will be “stronger than expected and sooner than expected”, after a new analysis showed carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere much faster than predicted.
The new study, published in the US journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), says three processes have contributed to this increase: […]