It’s being reported by the IPS News Agency documents suggest the U.S. government is trying to prevent a landmark regulatory proposal in the European Union aimed at addressing climate change. Environmentalists, working off of documents released through open government requests, say U.S. trade representatives are responding to frustrations voiced by the oil and gas industry. […]
Protest stalls ExxonMobile operations abroad
By spill standards and protests – neither one was large, but it’s possible a point was still made. A dozen barrels of oil had spilled on ExxonMobil property at Ekat in Nigeria. After that about 500 forced operations to grind to a halt at the oil companies airstrip. For the protestors this last incident was […]