![[:en]A rig too far[:]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Antartide-viaggio-e-crociera-lusso_-img-74_353-240x240.jpg)
[:en]A rig too far[:]
[:en][ on economist.com] OIL companies have a proud history of digging holes in inaccessible places and producing gushers of money. But in the Chukchi Sea, in the Alaskan Arctic, Shell has poured $7 billion into a single 6,800-foot exploratory well, making it possibly the most expensive hole yet drilled, only to admit this week that it had not found enough oil and gas to make further exploration worthwhile. That was a big...
![[:en]Italian climate policy: doubling fossil fuel extraction.[:]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nuclear-energy-240x240.jpg)
[:en]Italian climate policy: doubling fossil fuel extraction.[:]
[:en][By Camila Rolando Mazzuca on ejolt.org] Today’s world energy production mainly derives from non-renewable sources and represents up to 47% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions for the 2000s decade. These emissions reinforce the inequalities between low income populations, whose environment and health are usually the most affected by it, and the profits made by fossil-fuel corporations. While threatening the climate and...
![[:en]Latest News on the (never-ending) Texaco/Chevron in Ecuador case[:]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/mano-oil-240x240.jpg)
[:en]Latest News on the (never-ending) Texaco/Chevron in Ecuador case[:]
[:en][by [Camila Rolando on CDCA.IT] Recap on the Texaco/Chevron disaster in Ecuadorian Amazon The Texaco company started oil drilling activities in Ecuadorian Amazon in 1964 and continued up to 1994. Thrilled by the promises of dollars, Ecuadorian State’s representatives and decision-makers welcomed Texaco to the country. The arrangements between the national State and the transnational company were with no consultation or concern...
![[:en]Undisciplined Environments: ENTITLE conference full program[:]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1-240x240.png)
[:en]Undisciplined Environments: ENTITLE conference full program[:]
[:en][by entitlefellows] A compilation of panels and workshops that have open calls for contributions to the Undisciplined Environments international political ecology conference (Stockholm, March 20-23, 2016). The International political ecology conference UNDISCIPLINED ENVIRONMENTS will be held in Stockholm, 20-23 March 2016. The Conference is organized by the European Network of Political Ecology (ENTITLE), the Centre for Social...
![[:en]Agip’s Azuzuama tragedy[:]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/azuzuama-agip-240x240.jpg)
[:en]Agip’s Azuzuama tragedy[:]
[:en]The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) through field monitoring has recorded the death of 14 persons while several others were burnt along Agip’s Tebidabe? Clough Creek pipeline at a damaged section of the pipeline during a Joint Investigation Visit (JIV). It has conducted field visits to the sites and documented the tragic incident which occurred on the 9th July 2015. Such incidence is not...
![[:en]India: 200,000 refugees in Assam’s devastating floods[:]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/assam-india-al-ok-240x240.jpg)
[:en]India: 200,000 refugees in Assam’s devastating floods[:]
[:en][by Sneha Krishnan on theecologist.org] India’s tea capital, Assam, has been hit by devastating floods for the second time in three years, writes Sneha Krishnan. But the government has failed to address key environmental issues like deforestation and soil conservation, or involve local communities in developing solutions. So ever more fertile land is lost to erosion, and millions of the country’s poorest people...
