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A new report produced by conservative thinktank Policy Exchange - described as David Cameron's "favourite", promotes upstream carbon taxes as more effective than market-based cap & trade in reducing emissions.  Read more

From the RSW blog: "New from Talib Kweli, this hard-hitting music video unpacks the story of of Nigeria’s oil curse, the Ogoni struggle and the complicit role of Western governments and companies. Warning: this video contains strong political lyrics."  Read more

From Rossport's Shell to Sea Campaign: Sign up to BEAT THE BOREHOLES!!
Join a continuous mass act of civil disobedience this summer at Sruth Fháda Chonn estuary.  Read more

While drilling holes in the Atlantic seafloor and mining tar sands, BP has also been working with Craig Venter’s Synthetic Genomics to geoengineer microbes that could be injected into tar sands to release methane and create algae-based biofuels, according to Jim Thomas of etc group writing for  Read more

With the media searching for new angles on BP's Gulf disaster, stories on the devastation in Nigeria and the "normality" of spills in the Delta are now finally making it back into the papers - see Benoit Faucon's piece in the Wall Street Journal and Adam Nossiter's NYT article.  Read more

تثبت تسرب النفط في البحر الأحمر حبكا فيديو من
بريتيش بتروليوم أكبر شركة نفط تعمل في البحر الأحمر  Read more

من المسري اليوم
تعرضت شواطئ القرى السياحية والشواطئ العامة بالغردقة للتلوث، إثر ظهور بقع زيت كبيرة امتدت إلى جميع شواطئ المدينة، من الجونة شمالاً، حتى منطقة سهل حشيش جنوباً، لمسافة تزيد على نحو 20 كيلومتراً، فيما لم تحدد الجهات المعنية مصدر التلوث حتى الآن.

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A Chatham House event last Thursday launched the new report "Unpaid Debt: The Legacy of Lundin, Petronas and OMV in Sudan, 1997-2003," on the role of oil companies in fuelling war and atrocities in Sudan.  Read more

Claire Hall from Espacio Bristol-Colombia describes how the Colombian army has joined in the repression of striking BP workers in Casanare.

from Upside Down World:  Read more