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Author: Andy Rowell

As killer heat in Asia affects 1.5 billion people, UN warns heatwaves set to get worse

April 27, 2022By Andy RowellBlog Post 1 Comment

With the war in Ukraine dragging on into its second month, there is a relentless depressing news cycle. But as war dominates, other issues slip from the news agenda.

South Africa: Activists demand accelerating a just transition from fossil fuels after devastating flooding

April 21, 2022By Andy RowellAfrica, Blog Post

After some of the most destructive flooding ever to hit South Africa last week, which resulted in over 400 killed and 40,000 displaced, climate activists are calling on the government to speed up the transition away from fossil fuels.

Evidence from America shows fracking in the UK will not be safe

April 14, 2022By Andy RowellBlog Post

Just as the U.S. oil and gas industry is looking to exploit the Ukraine war to expand exploitation of shale gas, so too is the European shale gas industry. 

American LNG is not the answer to European gas crisis

April 7, 2022By Andy RowellBlog Post

One of the leading trade associations promoting fracking in the U.S. sees Putin’s war in Ukraine as a flagrant opportunity to sell more LNG gas. And lots of it. They are calling on the U.S. to “unleash American energy’s strength and security”.

Big Oil Bonanza: U.S. and European companies responsible for nearly USD100 billion to Putin & profiteering billions more from war

April 1, 2022By Andy RowellBlog Post

No words will ever be able to describe the full horror of war. The bombs, the bullets, the trauma. The wanton destruction of life. Hopes and dreams evaporated.

As world looks the other way, climate alarm bells ring loudly in Antarctica

March 29, 2022By Andy RowellBlog Post

Whilst much of the world’s media attention is focussed on Putin’s illegal and horrendous war in Ukraine, our daily climate emergency has slipped from the headline news agenda. But what is happening in the Arctic and Antarctica is alarming scientists and activists alike.

The fight to hold Shell accountable for complicity in murder & pollution in Nigeria continues

March 23, 2022By Andy RowellBlog Post

In 2017, Esther Kiobel and three other widows of the Ogoni 9, brought a new legal case against Shell in the Netherlands for complicity in murdering their husbands. And today was judgement day in the Hague. A day for hope. A day of dreams. However, those dreams were to be shattered. But this is not the end of the fight.

BP’s Russian lobby group scrubs its website clean of controversial links and past

March 22, 2022By Andy RowellBlog Post

A key British Russian lobbying group, the board of which included executives from BP, and whose hierarchy included British Royalty, British and Russian Ambassadors and ex-British parliamentarians, has quietly erased online content about its activities and personnel over the last few weeks.

As US and UK move to wean themselves off Putin’s gas, it’s time to invest in renewables 

March 9, 2022By Andy RowellBlog Post

The solution to both the US and UK decisions to stop importing Russian oil and gas is not to drill for more oil, either in the US or UK – something the fossil fuel industry and its supporters are already arguing. It is to invest in renewables and alternatives such as heat pumps and weatherization.

How Big Oil courted and emboldened Putin for decades

March 4, 2022By Andy RowellBlog Post 2 Comments

For decades Big Oil courted Putin and helped him exploit Russia’s vast reserves. Big Oil poured billions into Russia’s war chest with devastating consequences.

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