On Wednesday, the fourth Annual climate camp will happen at an undisclosed location in London, building on previous year’s success at Drax, Kingsnorth and Heathrow. With just months to go to the crucial Copenhagen Climate Summit in December, the intention is to force our politicians to act. But activists from around Britain will also be … Read More
indigenous rights
‘ShellGuilty’ Campaign Launched
It has been a long fight for justice, but the day that Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa dreamed of is now just a month away. Saro-Wiwa was hung along with eight others in November 1995, having been framed by the Nigerian military for a crime he did not commit. His only crime had been to take … Read More
Shell to Continue Arctic Drilling Despite Legal Ruling
At the end of last week, environmental campaigners and Native Alaskans were celebrating a huge victory. A US Federal Appeals court ruled that the Bush administration did not properly study the environmental impact of expanding oil and gas drilling off the Alaska coast.
Co-Op Funds Tar Sands Legal Challenge
The fight over tar sands is definitely hotting up. Britain’s leading “ethical” bank, the Co-operative will announce today that it is to help fund a legal challenge by the Beaver Lake Cree Nation, which claims the boom in dirty tar sands extraction is destroying their ancestral hunting lands.
Oh Oedipus – Its Time to Lift the Curse of Oil
On the 4th January 1993, some 300,000 Ogoni celebrated the Year of Indigenous Peoples by peacefully protesting against Shell’s activities and environmental destruction of Ogoniland in the Niger Delta. It remains the largest demonstration against an oil company ever. “We have woken up to find our lands devastated by agents of death called oil companies.
Gov Panel Says Give Delta 25% of Oil Revenue
When Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni launched their campaign against the oil companies in the Niger Delta in the early nineties, one of their key demands was that they should receive a greater share of the oil wealth from the oil drilled from under their land. Its seems a no-brainer really that the locals should … Read More
Justice Begins at Home
In May 1998, 121 unarmed youths from the 42 communities of Ilajeland in the Niger Delta decided to join the waves of protests against the oil companies sweeping the region. Whereas many of the previous protests had been against Shell, the oil company operating in their area was Chevron. They got into boats and canoes … Read More
Nigeria: Court Orders Shell to Hand Oil Terminal Back to Locals
In what is a truly symbolic victory for the people of the Niger Delta, the oil giant Shell has been ordered to hand over the huge Bonny oil terminal to the local population. Although details are only now becoming public, a high court in Rivers State ruled in July that the site of the Bonny … Read More
“I Wouldn’t Dare Do That Now”
As Warren Buffett and Bill Gates’ trip to the oil sands continues to be be spun as positive news for the oil industry, here is Kenny Bruno’s second blog from Alberta that highlights the real story: “North of the tar sands empire, in a vast delta of lakes, seasonal ponds, winding rivers, marshes and small … Read More
Welcome to Mordor
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates are not the only ones who have been touring Alberta’s Oil Sands recently. Oil Change’s Kenny Bruno has just visited the region as part of a delegation of environmental groups. Here is his first dispatch, which is the first of three posts from Kenny.. Kenny writes: “As we approached the … Read More