Oil

Hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’ – Big Oil’s newest way to extract natural gas from an exhausted planet – comes with a terrible environmental price tag. Joyce Nelson digs deeper.

Filed in: Canada Oil Pollution United States

Esme McAvoy is in the Amazon to find out what’s happening to the Yasuní proposal.

Filed in: Ecuador Forests Oil

6th round of Canada-EU trade negotiations, Brussels: 16-21 January

Filed in: Canada Climate Change Oil

Adam Ma’anit peers beyond the smoke and mirrors at BP’s ‘clean up’ of the Gulf of Mexico.

Filed in: Oceans Oil United States

The international campaign to shut down the tar sands is shaping up to be an iconic battle, reports Jess Worth.

Filed in: Canada Climate Change First Nations Reservations (Canada) Oil

People from the Ecuadorian rainforest tell Fabrício Guamán what they think of their Government’s proposal to leave petroleum in the ground.

Filed in: Ecuador Oil

Is Ecuador’s bold proposal not to exploit a billion barrels of oil in the Yasuní National Park a serious option for combating climate change? If so, the world is going to have to move fast, warns Vanessa Baird.

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Gabon is a good example of why judging how well a country is doing by per-capita income is just useless. It is oil-rich and yet half the population lives below the poverty line. World Bank/IMF strictures are doing their part to help keep it that way.

Filed in: Gabon IMF Oil Poverty World Bank

Filed in: Corporations Oil United States

Grenada’s revolutionary fair trade

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