by oilwatch | Apr 4, 2013 | Africa, News
EJOLT Oil permeates our existence. From water bottles, plastics, fuels and paints to fertilizers, fabrics and solvents. Yet despite its ubiquity, the reality of the infrastructure behind oil extraction – the pipelines, terminals, offshore rigs, the tankers that ply...
by oilwatch | Apr 3, 2013 | Africa, Latin America, News
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...
by oilwatch | Mar 31, 2013 | Africa, News
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...
by oilwatch | Mar 29, 2013 | Latin America, News
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...
by oilwatch | Mar 26, 2013 | Africa, Statement
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...
by oilwatch | Mar 2, 2013 | Global, News
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...
by oilwatch | Mar 1, 2013 | Latin America, News
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...
by oilwatch | Jan 29, 2013 | Africa, News
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...
by oilwatch | Sep 21, 2012 | Latin America, News
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...
by oilwatch | Jan 3, 2010 | Africa, Global, Latin America, South Asia
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...
