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 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 [...]

Yesterday 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, [...]

For 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 [...]

And 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 [...]