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Posts in February 2008

• US Ready to Accept “Binding” CO2 “Obligations”

  Andy Rowell

  Feb26

  The US is ready to accept “binding international obligations” on reducing greenhouse gas emissions if other nations do the same, according to officials. The US hopes the world’s major economies will conclude a “leaders’ declaration” before the July G8 summit. But the Bush administration is clearly looking for some kind of agreement from major developing…
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• UN: Fish Stocks Could Collapse

  Andy Rowell

  Feb26

  Major commercial fish stocks around the world could collapse within decades as global warming compounds damage from pollution and overfishing, according to the UN. “You overlay all of this and you are potentially putting a death nail in the coffin of the world fisheries,” the head of the U.N. Environment Program, Achim Steiner, has said.

• Solidarity Actions Reinforce Opposition to Iraq Oil Law

  Andy Rowell

  Feb25

  On February 23, dozens of solidarity actions were held across the US and UK to support the Iraqi people in their resistance of an oil law that would give unprecedented control to foreign oil companies. In Washington, Oil Change International —in coalition with other US labor and peace organizations— hosted a press conference and march…
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• Big Oil “Poised to Move into Basra”

  Andy Rowell

  Feb25

  Western oil giants are poised to enter Basra to tap the country’s vast reserves, despite the ongoing threat of violence, according to the UK Prime Minister’s business emissary to the country. Michael Wareing, who heads the new Basra Development Commission, acknowledged that there would be concerns among Iraqis about multinationals exploiting natural resources.

• Antarctic Glaciers “Surge” to Ocean

  Andy Rowell

  Feb25

  UK scientists working in Antarctica have found some of the clearest evidence yet of instabilities in the ice of part of West Antarctica. If the trend continues, they say, it could lead to a significant rise in global sea level. The new evidence comes from a group of glaciers covering an area the size of…
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• First Biofuel Flight Dismissed as Stunt

  Andy Rowell

  Feb25

  The world’s first commercial aircraft powered partly by biofuel took off from Heathrow yesterday to a storm of criticism from climate change experts, who insisted it was nothing more than Sir Richard Branson’s latest “nonsensical” publicity stunt. The Virgin Atlantic 747 flew from London to Amsterdam using a 20 per cent biofuel mix of coconut…
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• Shell Bemoans Slow Pace of Iraqi Oil Law

  Andy Rowell

  Feb22

  As protests start against Iraq’s controversial oil law, Shell has criticized the fact that progress on the law “doesn’t go very fast”. The oil company says it hopes Iraq will pass the law some time this year and sees this and improved security as prerequisites for being able to work there. “You need basically two…
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• Nigerian Rebel Leader Accused

  Andy Rowell

  Feb22

  Nigerian police have accused a detained rebel leader from the oil-producing Niger Delta of killings, arms dealing, oil smuggling and other crimes, raising the prospect of a trial that could destabilise the area. Henry Okah was extradited from Angola to Nigeria a week ago and uncertainty over his fate has already increased tensions in Delta….
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• China Calls for Adherence to Kyoto Protocol

  Andy Rowell

  Feb22

  In an interesting development, China has called on the international community to observe the principles and framework of the Kyoto Protocol and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The appeal was made by Cao Bochun, vice director of the Environment and Resources Protection Committee of the Chinese National People’s Congress. “As a precondition…
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• Alaska Threatens Companies Over Gas Pipeline

  Andy Rowell

  Feb21

  Alaska could revoke leases for oil fields like Prudhoe Bay if top energy companies refuse to participate in a government natural gas pipeline plan, the Governor Sarah Palin has said. Exxon Mobil Corp, BP and ConocoPhillips together control more than 35 trillion cubic feet of known gas reserves on the Alaska North Slope. But the…
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