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 [...]

Earlier in the week I blogged about how British banks were under fire for their investment in the tar sands.
But they are not the only ones. There are also home-grown banks investing in the destruction of their own country.
Yesterday, over 170 people rallied outside of the Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC’s) Annual General Shareholder meeting [...]

The Chukchi Sea stand-off between environmental and Alaska Native groups and Shell has taken another twist, with a new legal action to stop the oil company’s plans to drill in the region next summer.
Yesterday’s challenge was filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals a group of Native Americans and environmental organisations including the Natural [...]

There has been a growing movement amongst communities from the South that are affected by oil exploitation to keep the “oil in the soil.”
Campaigners from both Nigeria and Ecuador have long mooted the idea, and so have some governments.
For the last two years Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has proposed that his government should be paid [...]

The joke going round Europe is that the only reason that President Obama won the Nobel Peace prize is that he is not President Bush. It’s not who he is but who he is not, that matters.
He might not be President Bush but Obama is continuing the mistakes of the Bush era. In fact he [...]