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Friday, May 02, 2008
Issue 9, containing articles on Sudan, Carbon Capture & Storage, Burning Capital & BP and Iraq.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
PLATFORM and People & Planet students from seven universities demonstrated today at the Royal Bank of Scotland’s AGM in Edinburgh, holding them to account for their financing of some of the most destructive fossil fuel projects on the planet.
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Burning Capital examines the hidden intricacies of how BP brought hundreds of millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere during 2007. Launched today, the website carries a 45 minute documentary, in 10-minute downloadable sections - and interactive datapanels giving extensive background information.
Friday, January 18, 2008
A new deal with an Eni-led consortium to develop the super-giant Kashagan oilfield will leave Kazakhstan $5 billion worse off than previously, according to new analysis published today.
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Nineteen local and international environmental organizations today called on Sir Fred Goodwin, CEO of the RBS-NatWest bank, to recall a controversial $1 billion loan by ABN AMRO towards Gazprom's purchase of a controlling share of the enormous Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia.
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Friday, December 21, 2007
Kazakhstan is set to lose up to $20 billion in the next 10 years, due to an unfair contract to extract the world’s largest undeveloped oilfield, according to a new briefing paper by PLATFORM
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Places
Iraq - النفط في العراق
Revealing the hidden plans for Iraq's reserves
Former Soviet Union
* Baku Ceyhan Pipeline
* Shell's Sakhalin II
Nigeria
The legacy of 50 years of oil production in the Niger Delta?
London
London's role as a centre for the global oil industry.
Issues
Resource Sovereignty
Who should own and control oil resources? Corporations? Governments? Communities?
Finance & Oil
Who provides the financial fuel that drives Big Oil?
Oil & Poverty
Why do most oil exporting developing countries fail to lift their people out of poverty?