Government faces environmental legal challenge over RBS
The World Development Movement, PLATFORM and People & Planet have today launched legal action against the Treasury for allowing public money, poured into the Royal Bank of Scotland to be invested in energy companies, and projects linked to climate change and human rights violations.
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Shell critic's boat sunk off Rossport
Attacks by both Shell security and mystery masked men on opponents of the oil company's damaging gas pipeline project have increased in recent weeks. Early Thursday morning, pipeline critic Pat O'Donnell's fishing boat was boarded by four masked men with weapons, who held the crew captive while sinking the vessel. This follows in the wake of outspoken farmer Willie Corduff being beaten up at night, protestors being thrown off ships by Shell security and suffering serious ligament damage from local police.
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Shell: The world's most carbon intensive oil company
"Irresponsible Energy" - new report published by Oil Change International, PLATFORM and others analyses the CO2 emissions set to be released from Shell's total resources and discovers it to be the most carbon intensive oil major.
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Shell under fire as trial approaches
One week ahead of Shell's trial for human rights abuses, including the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa, activists turned up the heat on Shell at their AGM. Spectacular fire juggling brought Shell's gas flaring in the Niger Delta to the attention of shareholders as they entered the Barbican where the UK AGM was held.
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Carbon Web Newsletter - Issue 11 - April 2008
Carbon Web Issue 11 includes a special feature on the impacts of the falling oil price on resource sovereignty trends and on Canadian tar sands, alongside articles exploring the pressures for Gaza's gas development, RBS' continued financing of fossil fuels and the pressure to change this, BP's postponed centenary celebrations and a photostory from the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline.
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