By Dan Steinbock / Informed Comment New York (Special to Informed Comment) – In December 2022, Israeli Ministry of Energy launched the Fourth Offshore Bid Round offering new exploration licenses. A year later, it awarded licenses to several Israeli and international companies: Eni (Italy), Dana Petroleum (UK, a subsidiary of a South Korean company, and Ratio… Read More Whitewashing Gas Exploration in Post-Genocide Gaza
NB: The USA emerged as the leading global hooligan after World War 2. Korea, Vietnam, Iran, Chile, Iraq, Afghanistan: a long story, documented by Alfred McCoy. Venezuela is the latest chapter in American empire building. It will meet the fate of their intervention in Vietnam. Their Armed forces know how they had to leave in… Read More Trump’s saber-rattling in Venezuela / Venezuelan Coup Leader María Machado Vows To Privatize Oil: US Corporations Will ‘Make a Lot of Money’
Residents of two Nigerian communities who are taking legal action against Shell over oil pollution are set to take their cases to trial at the high court in 2027. Members of the Bille and Ogale communities in the Niger delta, which have a combined population of about 50,000, are suing Shell and a Nigerian-based subsidiary… Read More Nigerian communities to take Shell to high court over oil pollution
NB: 626 days of slaughtering Palestinians with tanks and aircraft: 187,519 killed (including 17,492 dead children). Ten days of fighting with a real army, we have a cease fire. IDF: the most moral army in the world. DS If Iran actually closes the Strait of Hormuz, the global economy doesn’t wobble—it crashes headfirst into the… Read More Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge
Convoluted auction rules, scuttled competition and friendly bidders lead to the mega solar power deal. The deal is now caught in allegations of corruption, bribery and fraud by the US authorities. Nitin Sethi & Shreegireesh Jalihal The Union government designed a solar power auction that discouraged competition and paved the way for Adani Group to… Read More Adani Bribery Scandal Originated in a Dubious Solar Power Auction That Modi Government Scripted
They drilled into a volcano in Iceland. What they found could help power the world Laura Paddison, Max Burnell, Lewis Whyld, Mark Oliver, Carlotta Dotto, Marco Chacon and Lou Robinson, CNN Iceland is used to volcanoes. It experiences roughly one eruption every five years, though most are in uninhabited areas. Some are even described as… Read More A New Volcanic Era (Audio Visual)
New book exposes the power of oil – from colonialism, to post-Soviet Russia, to the current climate crisis Adam Hanieh Nearly four decades ago, a large team of scientists from around the world launched a major global research programme called the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). Their goal was to study the connection between human activities and… Read More Crude capitalism: How oil greases the wheels of the world market
Kara Fox, CNN As right-wing rioters attacked communities with racist violence across parts of the UK last month, 22-year-old climate activist Cressie Gethin sat in a prison cell. Her crime? Organizing a disruptive protest against new government-granted licenses to drill for oil — a planet-heating fossil fuel — in the North Sea. In late July,… Read More Climate protesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves
To survive, we are asked to forget that our lands and bodies are being violated, policed, ripped up, silenced, sacrificed Kelsey Day Igot the news naked in the New River, in the backwoods of Appalachia. Water slashed against my skin. The river was closed in by curtains of green, oak trees rippling on both sides… Read More Land loneliness
The US and the UK among countries with low dependence on fossil fuels criticized for ‘hypocrisy’ on climate pledges A surge in new oil and gas exploration in 2024 threatens to unleash nearly 12bn tonnes of planet-heating emissions, with the world’s wealthiest countries – such as the US and the UK – leading a stampede… Read More Revealed: wealthy western countries lead in global oil and gas expansion
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