| Burma: Cheney, Milosevic and Premier Oil Do Business with Junta The Guardian (London) July 28th, 2000 What do Dick Cheney, Slobodan Milosevic and the British company Premier Oil have in common? Answer: they all firmly believe in doing business with Burma, home to perhaps the world's most oppressive regime. |
| USA: Dick Cheney's Oil Connections Drillbits and Tailings (Project Underground) July 25th, 2000 Having ensured the continued flow of cheap oil from the Gulf by waging a war with Iraq, and after his boss, George Bush's ouster from office by Clinton in 1992, Dick Cheney turned his attention to the corporate world. |
| USA: Fronting for Big Coal by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, Focus on the Corporation July 11th, 2000 So, we're sitting in our office, and under the door comes a note advising us that there will be a press conference the next day where African-American and Hispanic groups will release a report showing how minority populations will suffer most if the United Nations Global Warming Treaty (Kyoto agreement) passes the U.S. Senate. |
| USA: Time to Cap Big Oil's Profit Gusher by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, Focus on the Corporation July 3rd, 2000 The startling concentration of economic power that has resulted from the U.S. merger wave of the last several years is going to require new levels of government intervention in the marketplace. |
| USA: Oil Money Gushing into Bush Campaign by H. Josef Hebert, Associated Press July 3rd, 2000 WASHINGTON -- While locked in a string of disputes with the Clinton administration, the oil industry has pumped more than $1.5 million into George W. Bush's campaign. Oil companies will be seeking Bush's help on a range of issues, should he be elected president. |
| Nigeria: Court Fines Shell $40 Million for 1970 Spill Environment News Service June 26th, 2000 PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria -- A Rivers State High Court in Port Harcourt has ordered Royal Dutch/Shell to pay US$40 million in compensation for an oil spill which happened in 1970 in Ogoniland. |
| USA: City Sues Big Oil for Millions Over Polluted Drinking Water by Timna Tanners, Reuters June 21st, 2000 SANTA MONICA -- The California beach city of Santa Monica is suing 18 oil companies for damages that could exceed $200 million, claiming that the firms polluted drinking water wells with the possibly cancer-causing gasoline additive MTBE. |
| USA: ExxonMobil Shareholders Use Stock to Push Change by Jonathan Fox, Dallas Observer June 8th, 2000 As with other behemoth multinational companies, Irving-based ExxonMobil's annual meeting is strictly a formality. Most of the crowd that packed the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in downtown Dallas to vote on shareholder resolutions last week were retirees who own relatively small amounts of company stock. |
| USA: Earth Day 2000 Targets Global Warming, Clean Energy Inter Press Service April 20th, 2000 In Earth Day 2000 celebrations around the globe, environmentalists plan to highlight the culprits of global warming and the solutions: renewable energy, including wind and solar. |
| USA: Occidental Chairman Sues Protestors for Harassment by Timna Tanners, Reuters April 4th, 2000 The chairman of Occidental Petroleum is staging his own protest against the human rights groups who picket his home and office --he is suing them for harassment and wants a court to grant him damages. |
| USA: Oxy CEO Confronted by U'wa Leader in Congresswoman's Office Environment News Service March 30th, 2000 A surprise encounter in the Congressional office of Georgia Representative Cynthia McKinney today brought the vice president of Occidental Petroleum face to face with the president of the U'wa indigenous people who are fighting the company's oil drilling on their traditional land in Colombia. |
| Burma: US Oil Giant Pulls Out of Country Agence France Presse March 29th, 2000 Oil services provider Baker Hughes has become the latest United States firm to pull out of Burma, human rights campaigners and the firm's local partner said Wednesday. |
| Philippines: Strike Over Gas Hike Paralyzes Southern City by Edwin O. Fernandez and Charlie C. Sease, Philippine Daily Inquirer (Internet Edition) March 23rd, 2000 Jeepney drivers and operators, slumdwellers and other sectoral representatives yesterday took to the streets to demand an oil price rollback and the resignation or ouster of President Estrada. |
| USA: General Motors Quits Global Warming Lobby Group by David Goodman, Associated Press March 15th, 2000 Environmentalists are claiming victory following General Motors Corp.'s decision to quit a lobbying group that has led the opposition to a 1997 global warming treaty reached in Kyoto, Japan. |
| Netherlands: Greenpeace Buys Shell Stock Associated Press March 14th, 2000 The Amsterdam-based environmentalist group announced the purchase of $240,000 worth of Royal Dutch/Shell Group equity to try to pressure the Anglo-Dutch energy conglomerate to build a huge solar panel production plant. |
| JAPAN: People Power Overcomes Nuclear Power by Jonathan Watts, The Guardian (UK) February 23rd, 2000 Japan's nuclear power industry suffered a historic defeat yesterday when one of the country's biggest utilities was forced to scrap plans for a power plant that it has been trying to build for 37 years. |
| World: Who is Paying the Cost of Our Fuel Bills? by George Monbiot, The Guardian Weekly February 10th, 2000 The effects of global warming are cruelly ironic: the impact of fossil-fuel consumption will be most severe in regions where the least fuel has been consumed. Sub-Saharan Africa is becoming drier: in East Africa droughts of the kind that used to strike every 40 years are arriving every four or five. |
| Canada: Oil Company Targeted for Ties to Sudanese Military by Mark Bourrie, Inter Press Service February 7th, 2000 An oil company headquartered in Alberta, Canada, is the target of a divestment campaign aimed at forcing the company to stop its partnership with the Sudanese government in the exploitation of oil fields in the war-torn southern region of Sudan. |
| USA: Closing the Lid on the Chlorine Industry by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, Focus on Corporations January 31st, 2000 Thornton is a research fellow at Columbia University's Center for Environmental Research and Conservation. His forthcoming book, Pandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health and a New Environmental Strategy (March 2000, MIT Press), argues that chlorine and the organochlorine chemicals made from it pose a global health and environmental threat. |
| A Movement Blossoms: Cross-Border Activism Picks Up Speed by Kent Paterson, Borderlines October 20th, 1998 In October 1998, after years of protest by an unprecedented bi-national coalition, the proposed Sierra Blanca nuclear waste dump was defeated. The proposed site for the commercial nuclear waste dump was just 16 miles from the Texas-Mexico border. |