Earlier this month, I blogged how the tar sands lobby was trying to exploit BP’s Gulf of Mexico spill.
Well the pro-tar sands argument has once again been blown out of the water by a report from the social investment network, Ceres.
It argues that the environmental and financial risks of producing oil in Canada’s vast oil [...]

Big Oil company Chevron may have hoped that its legal troubles as far as Nigeria were over.
However, in a great victory for human rights campaigners, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has fixed June 14, 2010 to open appeal hearings in the case.

It is the latest twist in the on-going soap opera of Ecuadorian oil.
You have the Indigenous Indians fighting in the courts in a multi-billion battle against Texaco’s lethal toxic legacy – a battle that has been going on for decades.
But now the tiny Latin American country is threatening to follow its powerful neighbour, Venezuela, and [...]

As the 17 year old lawsuit between oil giant Chevron and the Ecuadorian Indians draws to a close, the plaintiffs are arguing that they have uncovered damning new evidence that could seriously undermine the oil company’s legal case.
Texaco drilled for oil in Ecuador from 1964 to 1992, working in partnership with the state-run company [...]

They are two moments in history, intricately linked, although poles apart. Today Peter Voser,  the chief executive of Shell, outlines the company’s financial and production strategy for the coming year.
Once again Nigeria was mentioned as a key country where the company had added strategic reserves.
“These are exciting times for Shell”, said Voser. “We are poised [...]