“I’ll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not die.”
–Ken Saro-Wiwa 1995
Twelve years ago today, on November 10, 1995, after 17 months in custody, and a trial that was universally condemned as being a sham, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists were hanged in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Their only crime […]

Well it was on the cards that with a change in leadership came a change in direction. Tony Hayward, chief executive of BP, is planning a cultural shift at BP by playing down Lord Browne’s emphasis on the environment and refocus BP on profit.
Mr Hayward and other directors have discussed the corporate mantra “Beyond Petroleum”, […]

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, scholar and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, makes a passionate call for G8 action on global warming in today’s Huffington Post. “I can think of three billion reasons why President Bush should agree to take action on climate change at this week’s G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, one for every person in the […]

Although the United States and EU have imposed economic sanctions on Burma (Myanmar) in recent years as a result its appalling human rights record, this has not stopped oil companies investing in the country.
Two little-known foreign companies have signed a deal for offshore oil and gas exploration with the state-owned Myanmar Oil and […]

The oil industry is getting excited by the fact that power has changed hands for the first time in two decades in the authoritarian energy-rich state of Turkmenistan. Former dentist, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, has taken the presidential oath in the capital.
The strategic importance of the event was underscored by the presence of Russian Prime Minister Mikhail […]