More protests in China, but this time not about the Olympics or Tibet, but a petrochemical plant. Residents took to the streets of a provincial capital over the weekend to protest against the multibillion-dollar plant which is backed by China’s leading state-run oil company.
The protest, against a $5.5 billion ethylene plant under construction by PetroChina […]

Nigeria, which has been forced to shut in more than half of its oil output following rebel attacks and a workers’ strike, could lose its position as Africa’s top oil exporter to Angola.
The cumulative oil production outage for Africa’s most populous nation now amounts to more than 1.3 million barrels per day from its most […]

Was it his Palestinian scarf, his Armani jeans, designer shirt or his permanent tan that gave him away?
But a spy who infiltrated the direct action group Plane Stupid in the UK, has been exposed after making a series of elementary errors that aroused suspicions.

Last week, on the 5th anniversary of the Iraq War, hundreds of people stood with Oil Change International in the streets in front of the American Petroleum Institute demanding a Separation of Oil & State. They know, just as we do, that oil was the central motivation of the war in Iraq, that oil […]

Breaking developments from Nigeria about the oil company Shell returning to Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Ogoni region.
Yesterday’s Nigerian Vanguard newspaper ran the headline “Shell Resumes Operations In Ogoni”. The paper reported how “fifteen years after it was chased  out of Ogoni communities in the wake of agitation on the Ogoni Bill of Rights Shell Petroleum Development Company, […]