Anyone with time on their hands and a conscience in their heart should head down to Shell’s AGM tomorrow, to join the Corporate Pirates, listen to music from The Carbon Town Crier or comedy from Hands ON Iraqi Oil.
Go and show solidarity with the people of Rossport Ireland, Nigeria, Canada and beyond, who are fighting […]

Shell is not the only company facing shareholder anger. ExxonMobil faces a shareholder revolt led by the billionaire Rockefeller family that also has the support of four significant British institutional investors.
They are calling for a shake-up in the governance of the world’s biggest oil company.

The United States declared the polar bear a threatened species yesterday; saying the dramatic reduction in sea ice caused by global warming has put it in imminent danger of extinction.
Although this was the first time the US Endangered Species Act was used to protect a species threatened by climate change, the bears will only be […]

Imperial Oil, Canada’s largest oil company, has lost a legal bid to overturn a federal regulatory decision that could delay the planned C$8 billion oil-sands project in Alberta.
The Federal Court ruled that the government acted properly to cancel a water permit because another court found flaws in an environmental report on the Kearl tar sands […]

Global warming is disrupting wildlife and the environment on every continent, according to an unprecedented study that reveals the extent to which climate change is affecting the world’s ecosystems.
Scientists examined published reports dating back to 1970 and found that at least 90% of environmental damage and disruption around the world could be explained by rising […]