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• 1,000 Reported Dead in Nigeria on Eve of Shell AGM

  Andy Rowell

  May18

  Tomorrow is the Shell AGM: the show case of the company’s year. Shell will be under fire from investors over corporate pay, but its record in Nigeria should be the real reason the company is in the spotlight. In the Hague, the main venue for Shell’s main AGM, the oil company’s top brass will be…
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• Russia Warns of Oil Wars in the Arctic

  Andy Rowell

  May14

  A true addict does not know that it is addicted. It does not know when to seek help. It cannot tell when its actions move from the sublime to the ridiculous. It cannot tell it is time to wean itself off a lethal product before it self-destructs. Russia threatening war in the Arctic over oil…
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• British End Combat in Iraq but Stay to Defend the Oil

  Andy Rowell

  May01

  So the war is over – for the British at least. The Iraq war formally ended for British forces yesterday as British forces handed control of the oil-rich Basra area to U.S. commanders and prepared to ship out most of its remaining 4,000 troops. The end came early, but of course the end of combat…
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• Welcome to the “Oil War”

  Andy Rowell

  Sep15

  So finally it comes to this… The Niger Delta is at “war”. Yesterday, the region’s most prominent militant group, MEND declared an “oil war”, warning all oil workers to evacuate the delta immediately. This morning, true to their word, MEND (the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta) attacked a Shell flow station in…
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• Bush’s Iranian legacy

  Andy Rowell

  Jul02

  Poor old George. He doesn’t quite get it. He doesn’t quite understand that what he does with his right hand impacts what he does with his left. Take the thorny issue of Iran. There is increasing speculation that Bush wants one major shot at Iran before he leaves office. Writing in the New Yorker this…
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• Climate Change “May Put World at War”

  Andy Rowell

  Apr23

  Climate change could cause global conflicts as large as the two world wars but lasting for centuries unless the problem is controlled, a leading think tank has warned. The Royal United Services Institute, based in the UK, said a tenfold increase in research spending, comparable to the amount spent on the Apollo space programme, will…
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• MEND Threatens War

  Andy Rowell

  Apr21

  Many years ago, before he died in a plane crash, the Nigerian academic Claude Ake warned about the consequences of the militarisation of commerce. Over a decade later, the spiral of violence concerning oil continues. Ake’s painful warning has come true. As America conducts more naval maneuvers in the Gulf of Guinea, the Movement for…
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• Iraq War Fuel Costs Soar

  Andy Rowell

  Apr03

  So you think you’re being ripped off by Big Oil? Spare a thought for the poor old American military in Iraq that is burning fuel at a staggering rate. Military units pay an average of $3.23 a gallon for gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, some $88 a day per service member in Iraq, according to…
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• Follow the Oil Money

  Andy Rowell

  Mar24

  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 money…
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• Iraq = 25 million new cars, and counting

  Steve Kretzmann

  Mar19

  On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, a new report from Oil Change International, entitled A Climate of War (pdf) quantifies both the greenhouse gas emissions of the Iraq War and the opportunity costs involved in fighting war rather than climate change. Here are some facts on the war and warming: Projected total US…
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