If a tobacco company gave the World Health Organisation a $10 million grant to examine the health effects of smoking, health campaigners would be outraged.  They would also treat the results with great suspicion.
And the fact that Shell gave UNEP $10 million dollars to examine the cause of oil spills in Ogoni means that – [...]

Firstly pollution in Brazil:
At the end of last week a Brazilian court fined the local units of Shell  and BASF a total of BRL1.1 billion ($654 million) in compensation and medical costs to workers who were harmed by contamination at a chemicals plant in Paulinia, Sao Paulo.
The Paulinia unit was built by Shell in the [...]

For many in America, BP has been public enemy number one since the Deepwater disaster started on April 20th.
It’s not only the disaster itself, but the way BP has handled itself before and since then that has added to the palatable anger.
The failure by the company to stop the spill, the public gaffes by its [...]

BP may be paying out money faster than its going out of fashion for the Gulf of Mexico spill, but its arch-rival Shell is still not ready to part with its cash.
Yesterday, the oil giant’s Nigerian subsidiary, SPDC, announced that it was going to appeal against the judgment of a Federal High Court, which ordered [...]

Five years ago, I co-authored a book called “The Next Gulf- London, Washington and Oil Conflict in Nigeria”, that  - as the title suggested - looked at the interlinked nature of oil politics from America, the UK and West Africa.
In part the book details the grievances of the people of the Niger Delta - one [...]