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Brazil qualifies 6 more companies for oil-licensing round
LA PRENSA Brazil's ANP energy regulator has authorized six more companies to participate in an auction of offshore oil and natural gas exploration and production blocks. The six newly qualified companies bring to 44 the number registered to participate in the 11th...
Africans Unite Against new Form of Colonialism
Environmental Rights Action Outraged by the rampant land grabs and neocolonialism of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest degradation), Africans at the World Social Forum in Tunisia took the historic decision to launch the No REDD in Africa Network...
Ecuador auctions off Amazon to Chinese oil firms
THE GUARDIAN Indigenous groups claim they have not consented to oil projects, as politicians visit Beijing to publicise bidding process Ecuador plans to auction off more than three million hectares of pristine Amazonian rainforest to Chinese oil companies, angering...
BRICS to sustain the oil-based system
Durban, 26th of March 2013 Oilwatch International notes that the economic and political formation known by the acronym BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) started as an idea of Goldman Sachs for describing the main emerging markets. It is easy to...
BP Goes on Trial for Deepwater Horizon Explosion
WHAT'S NEW ON CORPWATCH: Holding Corporations Accountablehttp://www.corpwatch.org BP Goes on Trial for Deepwater Horizon ExplosionPratap ChatterjeeMarch 2nd, 2013 BP, the UK oil company, went on trial this week for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in...
BRAZIL – Petrobras offshore presalt oil production reaches 300,000 b/d
Offshore RIO DE JANEIRO – Oil production at Petrobras-operated fields in the presalt areas of the Campos and Santos basins has reached the 300,000 b/d mark.This figure accounts for production from 17 wells, six in Santos basin and 11 in Campos basin. Santos accounts...
Why Shell Must be Held Accountable for its Niger Delta Ecocide
Equaltimes Four Nigerian farmers and fishermen who are victims of multinational oil giant Shell's unrelenting polluting activities in the Niger Delta are striving for justice. The four Nigerian plaintiffs stand with supporters outside the court in The Hague. If their...
Ecuador no descarta explotar petróleo en el Parque Yasuní
Bolpress.com En cinco años la Iniciativa Yasuni recaudó 336 millones de dólares, menos del 10% de los 3.600 millones que esperaba Ecuador de la comunidad internacional. El gobierno de Rafael Correa decidirá en junio o julio de este año si explota o no los 800 millones...
La historia de las falsas soluciones climáticas
La Historia del Mercado del Carbono http://storyofcapandtrade.org es una mirada rápida, bien fundamenta, ademas de entretenida, a la principal solución climática que está siendo discutida en Copenhage y en el Capitol Hill. La conductora Annie Leonard presenta a la...
Statement of Climate Justice Now! on the outcomes of COP15
for sign-on by 5 January 2010 Organisations and individuals are invited to endorse the statement visit www.climate-justice-now.org Call for system change not climate change unites global movement Corrupt Copenhagen accord exposes gulf between peoples demands and...
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