The world’s media may have moved on for the site of another oil spill, and the beaches may be clean on the surface, but a month after South Korea’s worst oil spill, residents are struggling to pick up their shattered lives.
Last week a young fisherman Lee Young-kwon killed himself by drinking pesticide in […]

The scare-mongering over climate continues. Instead of seeing climate change as a business opportunity, employers and trade unions see it as a threat.
The European Trade Union Confederation is warning that to 50,000 steelworkers’ jobs could go if their industry moves to areas with lower costs for polluters. And lobby group BusinessEurope says companies will lose […]

A new report comparing the environmental performance of Alberta’s oilsands producers against each other has found that even the winners have little to brag about.
The groundbreaking study by the Pembina Institute and the World Wildlife Fund, compares 10 operating and proposed oilsands mines using data supplied by the companies and publicly available government sources.

Last October the Government of Nigeria gave the multinational oil companies in the country a firm ultimatum: “The Federal Government policy to stop gas flaring commences on Jan. 1, 2008, and any company which flares gas after that time would be shut down.”
Well guess what, the flares are still burning. Responding to pressure from […]

Several green groups have sued Shell Oil and its affiliates, claiming the oil giant has for years released pollutants from its suburban Houston refinery that are well above state and federal limits.
In their federal lawsuit, the Sierra Club and Environment Texas claim the excess air pollutants, including toxic chemicals benzene and 1,3-butadiene, are a violation […]