Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Oil'
Hugo Chavez Depicted as Tyrant for Challenging Western Oil Domination
by Linda McQuaig, Toronto Star, Canada - Had Hugo Chavez followed the pattern of many Third World leaders and concentrated on siphoning off his nation’s wealth for personal gain, he would have attracted little attention or animosity in the West....
Why I'm Standing up to TransCanada's Keystone XL Pipeline in East Texas
by Daryl Hannah, Guardian, UK - Don't buy the tale that this tar sands oil will make the US energy-independent. It's export for profit, even as spills poison our water....
Nigerian Farmers vs. Shell: A Case of Long-Distance Justice
by Hélène Michaud, Radio Netherlands, The Netherlands - When oil is spilled and contaminates people’s lands and waters, who is to blame? This is the central question in a unique court case that took place this week in the Netherlands....
The Threat of a Military Conflict with Iran Is Real
by Ekaterina Zabrovskaya, Russia Beyond the Headlines, Russia - A war against Iran is inevitable and it is likely to break out sometime in the first half of 2013, says Yevgeny Satanovsky, president of the Institute of the Middle East....
'Black Gold' and Corruption in Nigeria - Women's Health Pays the Price
by Lola Johnson, Safe World, UK - Although Nigeria is placed 30th out of 193 countries in terms of wealth, a United Nations report states that in quality of life, this ‘Giant of Africa’ “rates below all other major oil...
The Real Reason the Military is Going Green
by Natalie Pompilio, Yes!, USA - Big Oil is a big risk for national security. Can our military—the world's No. 1 oil guzzler—change the politics of climate change?...
Indigenous Peruvian Community Locked in Dispute with Oil Company
by Fawzia Sheikh, IPS, Italy - An indigenous group in the Amazon rain forest took its anti-oil message to Canada in a case rife with accusations of social and environmental damage that highlights the issue of securing consent prior to...
The Sound of Southern Sudan
by Hannah McNeish, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - "You see -- if there is oil here, Bashir comes, if there is oil there, he goes that way. You see? This will go on and on," until Khartoum sees the...
Portugal: State Radio Silenced after Angola Opinion Piece
by Sara Moreira, Global Voices, Netherlands - The truth about the Angolan “petroligarchy”, in a country where the cornucopia of riches is restricted to some and more than half of the population lives in the most abject poverty, is a...
The Boko Haram Terror Chief Who Came Back from the Dead
by Leela Jacinto, France 24, France - Two years ago, Nigerian security officials thought they had killed Imam Abubakar Shekau. But the leader of the Boko Haram Islamist group is alive and has released a new video threatening the Nigerian...
Keystone XL Pipeline Debate Moves to Nebraska As Final Decision Looms
by Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, UK - Special session of legislature begins Tuesday afternoon – a key moment in whether 1,660-mile oil pipeline goes ahead...
With Pakistan Supply Route In Doubt, Washington Looks To Uzbekistan
by Daisy Sindelar, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - As ties between the United States and Pakistan continue to sour, speculation is mounting that Uzbekistan may become a new ally of convenience in the U.S. war on terror...
Special Report: How to Win Business in Libya
by Emma Farge, Lorraine Turner & John Irish, Reuters, UK - If French and British politicians are tallying up the contracts, business executives are leaving little to chance. Foreign companies withdrew from Libya at the outset of the NATO bombing...
US Solution to Oil Crisis Simulation: Drill More
by Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian, UK - "We are reaping the harvest of our dependence on petroleum and the fact that the countries that produce it are either unstable or hostile to our interests," lamented Stephen Hadley, who reprised his real-life...
Exxon's Yellowstone Oil Spill Shows Pipeline Risks
by Sue Sturgis, Facing South, USA - A report released last year by Environment North Carolina found that the value of the tourism and fishing industries is three times larger than the value of any oil and gas production in...
Guatemala: Oil Companies and the Subservience of the Government
by Emma Volonté, Upside Down World, Canada - "Perenco has its private guards, and they buy off people from these communities to identify the leaders. And anyone who wants to investigate, or do critical, independent journalism, as I do, faces...
Shell Eyes Ip Deep-Sea Resources with World's First Floating Natural Gas Rig
by Fiona Harvey, Guardian, UK - The world's first floating natural gas platform is to be built by Royal Dutch Shell, opening up vast new areas of the deep seabed for gas exploration....
Without a Car
by Diane Meyer, Orion, USA - Going bipedal in the fossil-fueled City of Angels....
How the Bicycle Economy can Help Us Beat the Energy Crisis
by Elly Blue, Grist, USA - The bicycle economy exists, meanwhile, on a human, mostly local scale. It's something each of us can concretely take hold of, in our own way and for our own reasons. It offers real freedom...
Algae Could Make Biofuel Cheaper than Oil
by Megan Detrie, The National, UAE - The UAE's sunshine and sea could make it the perfect place for the slime to grow....
Oil Politics: Charge Them with Manslaughter
by Nnimmo Bassey, Pambazuka, Kenya - If manslaughter charges are pressed against officials of BP, then the days of companies only being fined and the directors avoiding the dock will soon become history....
What’s Behind United States Budget Problems?
by Gail Tverberg, Our Finite World, USA - We see endless fighting between the Democrats and Republicans about the budget, but no real explanation as to what the issues are. My view is that there is a structural imbalance between...
Libya all about Oil, or Central banking?
by Ellen Brown, Asia Times, Hong Kong - With energy, water, and ample credit to develop the infrastructure to access them, a nation can be free of the grip of foreign creditors. And that may be the real threat of...
Has BP Really Cleaned up the Gulf Oil Spill?
by Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian, UK - Officially, marine life is returning to normal in the Gulf of Mexico, but dead animals are still washing up on beaches – and one scientist believes the damage runs much deeper....
Dirty Energy's Dirty Deeds
by Ellen Cantarow, Tom Dispatch, USA - Energy is ugly. Some forms more so than others, as nuclear near-meltdowns in Japan, the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and deaths in a West Virginia Coal Mine explosion have driven...
Bonuses for Bosses at Killer Corporations?
by Laura Flanders, GRITtv, USA - Even as it doles out that safety bonus -- worth $374,000 above salary - to its CEO, TransOcean is trying to score more contracts -- and it's working hard to dodge hearings by the...
We Will Remember 2011
by Frida Ghitis, Miami Herald, USA - The nuclear disaster in Japan only makes what happens in the Middle East more critical, because it highlights how unprepared the world is to withstand shocks to the oil supply....
Another Gulf Oil Spill Shows Need for Better Oversight
by Sue Sturgis, Facing South, USA - The current regulatory system relies on the polluters to turn themselves in and accurately report what they've spilled -- even though they're subject to fines based on the amount released....
France and Italy Share Strong Ties with Libya's Gadhafi
by Daniela Stahl & Christoph Wöss, Deutsche Welle, Germany - France and Italy have condemned Libya's violent repression of anti-regime protests, but both European nations have a lot at stake when it comes to the oil-rich country....
Ecuadorian Court Rules Against Chevron in Historic Case
by Sofía Jarrín, Upside Down World, Canada - The residents of Sucumbios spent the last 18 years seeking justice for the environmental damages suffered in their territories by Texaco’s oil exploration. These are mostly indigenous people who before the oil...
Unilever Warns of Price Rises as Food Costs Soar
by Zoe Wood and Julia Kollewe, Guardian, UK - UN food price index up 3.4% from December, the highest level since the organisation started measuring food prices in 1990....
Sudan's Oil Transforms from Curse into Blessing
by Opheera McDoom, Reuters, UK - Oil inflamed Sudan's civil war for decades but could now help seal the peace as the south becomes independent and needs the north to refine its crude....
A Lot of Blood for Little Oil
by Cordula Meyer, Spiegel, Germany - Contrary to what many people believe, the Iraq war provided few advantages for the US oil industry. The diplomatic cables show that, in most cases, it was competitors to the Americans who often did...
Shell’s Arctic Drilling Will Destroy Our Homeland and Culture
by Rosemary Ahtuangaruak, Climate Storytellers, USA - This week families across the country will be celebrating Thanksgiving—sharing food and telling stories. Here is my story about our food and culture that would be destroyed if Shell Oil gets the permit...
Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earth
by Rebecca Solnit, Tom Dispatch, USA - Gigantic, powerful, undead beings, corporations have been given ever more human rights over the past 125 years; they act on their own behalf, not mine or yours or humanity’s or, really, carbon-based life...
Shell Oil’s ‘Licence to Kill’?
by Abena Ampofoa Asare, Pambazuka News, Kenya - Last month, Judge José A. Cabranes of the Manhattan-based federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a judicial opinion that sent international lawyers, human rights advocates and African environmental activists reeling....
The Naivety of Shell, UNEP
by Maureen Chigbo, Newswatch, Nigeria - The important thing for UNEP to do to redeem its image and integrity is to investigate and make public why its official absolved Shell of blame for oil spills in the Niger Delta....
Oil-Dependency and Food: Livelihoods at Risk
by Tanya Kerssen, Pambazuka News, Kenya - ‘Ironically, those with the smallest ecological footprint on earth have born the highest cost, but these ‘beleaguered people – the small farmers, herders, fishers and artisans of the world – could hold the...
Diary of an Oil Spill
by Rebecca Solnit, London Review of Books, UK - The whole region has become something like the Western Front, a place where you might run into pockets of poison gas, except that this wasn’t a battlefront: it’s home, for...
Nigeria and Imperialism: A Race to the Abyss
by Ayo Ademiluyi, Pambazuka News, Kenya - As a result of corruption, over 80 per cent of the oil wealth went into the private purses of less than one per cent of the population....
We Fight for the Oil We Need to Fight for the Oil
by Emily Badger, Miller-McCune, USA - Merely protecting America's fossil fuel lifeline adds a heap to the greenhouse gases that petroleum ultimately contributes....
Austria's Marriage with Iran: A Perilous Relationship
by Diana Gregor, Worldpress.org, USA - There are approximately 680 Austrian companies that have business dealings with Iranian companies or the Iranian state. In recent years, export credits were issued, among others, to Voith Siemens (turbines for a pump storage...
Transparency A Must In Sudan's North-South Oil Negotiations
by Rosie Sharpe, Oye! Times, Canada - A fair and transparent arrangement for sharing and monitoring the revenues from Sudan’s oil fields should be a top priority for negotiators from north and south Sudan who begin talks today....
Gulf Oil Spill: A Hole in the World
by Naomi Klein, Guardian, UK - The Deepwater Horizon disaster is not just an industrial accident – it is a violent wound inflicted on the Earth itself. In this special report from the Gulf coast, a leading author and activist...
Obama Uses Gulf Oil Disaster to Promote Climate Bill that Boosts Offshore Drilling
by Sue Sturgis, Facing South, USA - Why would the U.S. want to boost offshore drilling given the obvious safety failures and the catastrophic consequences they have for the ecology and economy?...
Contingency Plans for Cuba Oil Spill
by Dawn Gable, Havana Times, Cuba - While operational level talks have begun that might be helpful in the current crisis, what is needed, in the view of all the panelists, is a far-reaching collaborative plan that involves Mexico, Cuba...
Is there Rehab for this Oil Overdose?
by Carolyn Baker, Carolyn Baker, USA - Corporate culture, media, politicians, and the misguided American public are all failing to grasp the issue, and I suggest, are behaving like enablers responding to an addict's fatal overdose, as well as failing...
Chinese Company Leaves Open Pits of Oil in Peru
by María José Fermi (Adapted from Spanish by Diana Schwalb), Living in Peru, Peru-For four months now, the dunes, ravines and shores of Lobitos look like a threatening minefield: steamrollers of the Chinese oil company SAPET have drilled dozens...
Gulf Oil Spill Threatens Economic, Environmental Catastrophe
by Shannon Jones, World Socialist Web Site, USA - Oil is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico from the well beneath where a British Petroleum (BP) drilling rig exploded at the rate of 5,000 barrels a day, a rate five...
Border Disputes and Oil in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoirie
by Fawzia Sheikh, Arab News, Saudi Arabia - A maritime boundary dispute between Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire that erupted this month casts doubt on future international oil claims near the contested area and raises questions about the reaction of...
Why Oil is Critical in Preventing a Return to War in Sudan
by Rosie Sharpe, The East African, Kenya - While there are many outstanding issues in the implementation of the 2005 Sudanese peace deal, the issue of sharing oil revenue stands out as potentially decisive, and could lead to a...
Niger Delta Talks in Shell's 'Backyard'
by Hélène Michaud, Radio Netherlands, Netherlands - “As a non-violent activist, I believe violence is not the solution to the crisis,” says Sunny Ofehe. A Nigerian refugee in the Netherlands, Ofehe has managed to organise - almost single-handed it seems...
Over Iran, Enemies Become Friends
by Grace Nasri, Asia Times, China - Behind the neo-cons' newfound concern for human-rights and democracy promotion in Iran lies an agenda not of behavior or even regime change, but system change in the Islamic Republic - a change that...
Sudan Is Still the Issue
by Khadija Sharife, Pambazuka News, Kenya - Sudan’s oil deposits have made it one of the fastest growing economies in Africa, yet ‘violence, disease and malnutrition’ continue to kill its people....
Zambia: Riches to Rags
by Khadija Sharife, Pambazuka News, Kenya - Once perceived as an icon of progress in Africa thanks to wealth from its copper mines, today over 75 per cent of Zambia's population lives below the poverty line....
Ecuador: The Amazon’s Dirty War
by Christine Toomey, Times Online, UK - In the Ecuadorean Amazon basin our thirst for oil has triggered an eco-disaster: wholesale pollution and catastrophic cancer rates. And a bloody turf war has broken out. Ecuador is taking a survival plan...
Too Fearful To Publicise Peak Oil Reality
by Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian, UK - The economic establishment accepts the world soon won't be able to meet energy demands, but wants to keep quiet about it....
Video Disputed in Chevron Lawsuit
by Lucia Newman, Alfazeera, Qatar - A high-stakes legal battle between the world's second-largest oil company and the residents of Ecuador's Amazon region is heating up....
Era of Cheap, Easy Oil Is over, Warns Study
by Louise Gray, Telegraph, UK - The world could start to run out of oil in the next ten years, sparking soaring energy prices and a rush for even more polluting fossil fuels, an influential new study by the UK...
PERU: Petroleum Sullies the Amazon
by Milagros Salazar, IPS/IFEJ, Italy - "Now the fish are going to disappear," said Luis Umpunchi, an Awajún Indian, one of about 20 people gathered around a broken oil pipeline in the Jayais community, in the northern Peruvian province of...
The Scramble for Iraq's 'Sweet Oil'
by Nicole Johnston, Al Jazeera, Qatar - With proven oil reserves of around 112 billion barrels and up to another 150 billion barrels of probable reserves, Iraq is the greatest untapped prize for international oil companies....
Germany Takes Lead in Saving Ecuador's Rainforest
by Jess Smee, Spiegel, Germany - Oil companies are salivating over the supply of black gold beneath Ecuador's rainforest. The South American country is pledging to keep the oil in the ground -- if the international community provides compensation. Now...
Two Men Who Stood Under the Plunderers’ Knives
by Amy Goodman, Truthdig, USA - Peru and Nigeria are a world apart on the map, but both host abundant natural resources for which the U.S. and other industrialized nations hunger....
What Do Nigeria and Ireland Have in Common? Shell, Gas and Trouble
by Miriam Cotton, Village, Ireland - While Royal Dutch Shell are on trial in New York on charges of conspiring with the Nigerian government to have the activist and writer Ken Saro Wiwa hanged, Shell is also embroiled in a...
Exporting Oil: Solution to Kurdish Problem?
by Ayse Karabat, Today's Zaman, Turkey - The commencement of crude oil exports from northern Iraq via Turkey to the European market on Monday is not only a historic moment for regional economic cooperation, but also, according to experts, can...
Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil
by Amy Goodman, Truthdig, USA - The economy is a shambles, unemployment is soaring, the auto industry is collapsing. But profits are higher than ever at oil companies Chevron and Shell. Yet across the globe, from the Ecuadorian jungle, to...
Move to Nationalise Oil Industry Taking Hold
by Tamsin Carlisle, The National, United Arab Emirates - Despite slowing international investment, the leaders of a number of energy exporting countries have put oil industry nationalisation back on their agendas....
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