Energy, Mining & Utilities

Vivendi Environnement will today launch last-ditch negotiations to recover control of a Brazilian water company after a state government said it would take over management from the French utility. Read More

We take a look at the geopolitics of oil and the role they play in Washington's war on Iraq. Read More

Most of that came from a core group of seven of the nation's largest water companies and the industry association that represents them, said the article. Read More

Privatization has hit the water sector, which has remained mostly the bastion of public utilities. Over the last five years, hundreds of American communities, including Indianapolis, Milwaukee and Gary, Ind., have hired private companies to manage their waterworks, serving about one in 20 Americans. Read More

One thing is clear about the Bush administration's current rush to war: It has nothing to do with protecting U.S. security. Read More

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- As discussion about the looming war in Iraq intensifies in the wake of George Bush's State of the Union address, one item conspicuously absent from news bulletins and pundits' pontifications is the Kyoto protocol. Read More

Former South African president Nelson Mandela has criticised US President George W Bush over Iraq, saying the sole reason for a possible US-led attack would be to gain control of Iraqi oil. Read More

ORGANIZE a demonstration for peace at your local gas station, on February 4th. On that day, hundreds of gas stations across the country and around the world will be targeted as we send a clear message that access to oil is not worth war. Read More

The US military has drawn up detailed plans to secure and protect Iraq's oilfields to prevent a repeat of 1991 when President Saddam set Kuwait's wells ablaze. Read More

The World Bank has frozen the distribution of $225m in loans to Venezuela's oil industry until the country ''normalises''. Read More