by Kia Mistilis July 9, 2009 Behind fighter-planes and gunboats, Nigerian forces launched a full-scale offensive in the Niger Delta on May 13, displacing 30,000 people and sparking a humanitarian crisis. Thousands of civilians fleeing destroyed villages are now trapped between armed resistance groups and the Nigerian military. These civilians are hiding in the bush without food, [...]

by Agence France Presse July 6, 2009 LAGOS – Nigerian militants said Monday they destroyed a Chevron oil pipeline junction in the latest attack on Nigeria’s key money earner since the government offered an amnesty. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said it attacked the Okan manifold late Sunday.

by Jason Leopold July 3, 2009 Two years before the invasion of Iraq, oil executives and foreign policy advisers told the Bush administration that the United States would remain “a prisoner of its energy dilemma” as long as Saddam Hussein was in power.

Records show ExxonMobil gave hundreds of thousands of pounds to lobby groups that have published ‘misleading and inaccurate information’ about climate change by David Adam July 1, 2009 The world’s largest oil company is continuing to fund lobby groups that question the reality of global warming, despite a public pledge to cut support for such climate change denial, [...]

By Nicole Johnston June 30, 2009 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.

Documents seen by The IoS support claims energy giant enlisted help of country’s military government By Andy Rowell June 14, 2009 Serious questions over Shell Oil’s alleged involvement in human rights abuses in Nigeria emerged last night after confidential internal documents and court statements revealed how the energy giant enlisted the help of the country’s brutal former military [...]

By JAD MOUAWAD June 8, 2009 Royal Dutch Shell, the big oil company, agreed to pay $15.5 million to settle a case accusing it of taking part in human rights abuses in the Niger Delta in the early 1990s, a striking sum given that the company has denied any wrongdoing.

Por Fabiana Frayssinet RÍO DE JANEIRO, 26 may (IPS) – Ambientalistas, activistas humanitarios y otras organizaciones sociales se movilizan en Brasil por el esclarecimiento del asesinato de Paulo Santos Souza, un sindicalista de la pesca que denunciaba irregularidades en la construcción de un gasoducto para Petrobras.

Or How to Stay Out of Sight While Profiting From the War in Iraq By Pratap Chatterjee 31 de mayo, 2009 The Houstonian Hotel is an elegant, secluded resort set on an 18-acre wooded oasis in the heart of downtown Houston. Two weeks ago, David Lesar, CEO of the once notorious energy services corporation Halliburton, spoke to some [...]

El líder indígena aseveró que el gobierno de Alan García dio un trato de ”delincuentes” a los nativos que habitan en la Amazonía peruana. Por TeleSUR 6 de junio, 2009 El gobierno de Perú alzó sus armas en contra de las comunidades indígenas y con ello cometió el peor genocidio de la población aborigen que habita en [...]