Archive for the 'Pollution' Category
RBC is causing an “environmental holocaust”
1 Comment Published by Andy Rowell March 4th, 2010 in Canada, Pollution, indigenous rights, oil sands, protests, tar sandsEarlier 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 [...]
Flaws in Ugandan Oil Boom Exposed
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell February 17th, 2010 in African Oil, Corruption, Gas flaring, PollutionThe London-based environmental group Platform was the first group to analyse the oil contracts in Iraq called Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs), which gave lucrative terms to the international oil companies.
Now they have turned their attention to the rapidly expanding oil scene in Central Africa in Uganda.
Uganda is said to be sitting on the largest onshore [...]
Yet More Criticism of Shell’s Nigerian Operations
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell February 16th, 2010 in African Oil, Gas flaring, Nigeria, PollutionYesterday it was internal criticism of Shell’s Nigerian operations. Today it is external criticism.
A new report by the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility (ECCR) argues that Shell can improve its negative social and environmental impacts in the Niger Delta.
Based on case studies researched and written by five civil society organisations working in the Niger Delta, [...]
21 years later oil still pollutes Prince William Sound
1 Comment Published by Andy Rowell January 19th, 2010 in Arctic oil, Pollution, Public Relations, impact on wildlifeFor those of you who have not seen the film the Age of Stupid, Pete Postlethwaite, puts in a great performance as a despairing archivist wondering how we allowed the world to be ravaged by climate change.
You could imagine Pete putting in a similar performance as an archivist looking back at how the oil industry [...]
“We’ve got an environmental disaster unfolding”
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell October 28th, 2009 in Offshore, Pollution, impact on wildlifeAnd so it goes on. We may be able to send people to the moon but we are not able to stop a simple leak on an oil rig.
Over two months after Thailand’s PTTEP’s well sprung a leak in the Timor Sea, the oil continues to pour into the sea at a rate of some [...]
