After its offer was accepted last month to develop Iraq’s vast Rumaila oil field, BP may have thought it had won the biggest prize in the country’s oil race. But it may not be over yet and BP now faces industrial action.
The trade union representing workers of Iraq’s state-owned Southern Oil Company (SOC) yesterday threatened [...]

After twelve years in power the British Labour government yesterday outlined what it has deemed a “low carbon transition plan”.
Coopting language from the growing Transition Town movement is a crafty tactic by the British government that is promising to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 34% by 2020 with 80% cut by 2050.
Let’s get the positives [...]

One of the issues that Oil Change has tried to highlight is how oil money corrupts and corrodes politics. Big Oil has always had hordes of cash to spend to influence legislation on energy and climate.  Big Oil always expects to get its way as its pockets are deeper than its opponents. For years it [...]

It is meant to be a visit to talk about China’s commitment to tackling climate change, but on the sidelines is the thorny issue of China’s protectionist tactics to become the world leader in renewable energy.
In many ways China has stolen a march on its rivals: The US and EU had the technology to become [...]

It was a great speech full of powerful oratory. When Obama addressed the Ghanaian parliament on his first trip to Africa over the weekend, his speech was peppered with the concepts of America and Africa working together in a powerful, partnership.
Obama told his audenice that Africans needed to remove the millstone of conflict around their [...]