Crude Justice & Ecocide in the Niger Delta

EJOLT Oil permeates our existence. From water bottles, plastics, fuels and paints to fertilizers, fabrics and solvents. Yet despite its ubiquity, the reality of the infrastructure behind oil extraction – the pipelines, terminals, offshore rigs, the tankers that ply...

Africans Unite Against new Form of Colonialism

Environmental Rights Action Outraged by the rampant land grabs and neocolonialism of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest degradation), Africans at the World Social Forum in Tunisia took the historic decision to launch the No REDD in Africa Network...

Ecuador auctions off Amazon to Chinese oil firms

THE GUARDIAN Indigenous groups claim they have not consented to oil projects, as politicians visit Beijing to publicise bidding process Ecuador plans to auction off more than three million hectares of pristine Amazonian rainforest to Chinese oil companies, angering...
BRICS to sustain the oil-based system

BRICS to sustain the oil-based system

Durban, 26th of March 2013 Oilwatch International notes that the economic and political formation known by the acronym BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) started as an idea of Goldman Sachs for describing the main emerging markets. It is easy to...