| Statements from the Gulf to BP's Shareholders and Executives
Energy Program Director Antonia Juhasz has joined Gulf Coast residents in London this week to take on BP and hold the company to account for its crimes in the Gulf. They have collected statements from residents of the Gulf whose lives have been forever changed by the disaster. Some of the statements are collected here. Visit again for more. |
| Pickens says U.S. firms 'entitled' to Iraqi oil.
by Tom Doggett, Reuters
October 22nd, 2009
Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens told Congress on Wednesday that U.S. energy companies are "entitled" to some of Iraq's crude because of the large number of American troops that lost their lives fighting in the country and the U.S. taxpayer money spent. |
| Oil Troubles Wont Last Forever.
by Ben Lando, Iraq Oil Report
October 21st, 2009
Disputes over how to manage Iraq’s oil sector, and who gets to call the shots, have plateaued at a tense level for the past three years, but the top oil adviser to Iraq’s prime minister is optimistic agreements will be made after January’s national elections. |
| Iraq Eyes Gas Exports amid Project Talk Frenzy.
by Samuel Ciszuk, Petroleumworld
October 21st, 2009
Buoyed by the vast oil projects making negotiation headway this week, Iraq is eyeing gas exports to Turkey and possibly beyond, while revelations over oil deals continue to cast a shadow over Iraqi Kurdistan's autonomous institutions. |
| Big companies getting closer to big Iraq oil fields.
by Ben Lando, Iraq Oil Report
October 20th, 2009
A half dozen major international oil companies are close to deals with Iraq, on the heels of BP and the Chinese National Petroleum Corp., which are one step away from receiving the first new oil contract issued by Baghdad – for the largest oil field in the country. |
| Meetings move Iraq closer to next oil field auction.
by Ben Lando, Iraq Oil Report
October 20th, 2009
Representatives from 44 of the world’s largest oil companies have concluded two-day meetings here with the Iraqi Oil Ministry, hashing out a rough draft of the contract on which the companies will base their bids for 10 oil projects in December. |
| Iraqis Protest Poor Public Services.
Associated Press
October 10th, 2009
Hundreds took to the streets Saturday throughout Iraq to demand open elections and improved public services, revealing discontent among Iraqis that is overshadowing concerns about the ability of Iraqi forces to take over from withdrawing U.S. troops. |
| Major Flaws Emerge in Chevron Bribery Story.
by Amazon Defense Coalition, Press Release
September 3rd, 2009
New Scrutiny of Chevron's Own Conduct In Possible "Dirty Tricks" Operation. Oil Giant Hiding Witnesses; DOJ Pressed to Investigate Role of Chevron Legal Team;
Company Refusing to Turn Over Evidence. |
| Chevron Offers Evidence of Bribery Scheme in Ecuador Lawsuit
by SIMON ROMERO and CLIFFORD KRAUSS, New York Times
September 1st, 2009
The oil giant Chevron said Monday that it had obtained video recordings of meetings in Ecuador this year that appear to reveal a bribery scheme connected to a $27 billion lawsuit the company faces over environmental damage at oil fields it operated in remote areas of the Amazon forest in Ecuador. |
| Iraq to Hold Second Oil Bid-Round by Mid-December.
by Firat Kayakiran and Ayesha Daya, Bloomberg News
August 25th, 2009
Iraq, which pre-qualified about 45 companies to bid on oil projects, plans to award contracts for the six partly developed and four undeveloped fields offered in its second licensing round by mid-December. |
| Chevron Management Dealt Major Blow.
by Business Wire, CNBC.com
May 21st, 2009
Amazon Defense Coalition: Chevron management dealt major blow with CalPERS Announcement on Ecuador. California pension fund voting for resolution stemming from Chevron's $27 billion Ecuador liability in rainforest. |
| In Ecuador, Resentment of an Oil Company Oozes.
by Simon Romero and Clifford Krauss, New York Times
May 15th, 2009
Mention to Anita Ruíz the name of the giant oil company Chevron, and she trembles with rage. At her wooden hut here in the Amazon forest, where oil-project flares illuminate the night sky, she points to a portrait of her youngest son, who died seven years ago of leukemia at age 16. |
| NY AG Questions Chevron in Pollution Lawsuit.
by David Caruso, The Associated Press
May 6th, 2009
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has sent a letter to the Chevron Corp., questioning whether executives have been upfront with shareholders about the company's potential liability for decades of pollution in the jungles of Ecuador. |
| In Ecuador, High Stakes in Case Against Chevron.
by Juan Forero, Washington Post
April 28th, 2009
Deep in the northern Ecuadoran rain forest, next to pits filled with noxious sludge, a lawyer on his very first case argued that a U.S. oil company had deliberately fouled a swath of jungle nearly the size of Delaware during two decades of production. |
| Obama's Iraq Withdrawal Plan and the Peace Movement
by Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies
March 6th, 2009
The meaning of President Obama's Iraq withdrawal speech, and its influence on real U.S. policy in Iraq, will not be determined solely by his actual words. The import of the speech - and whether its promises become real - will be determined by a fluid combination of what Obama says, his own definitions of what he says, AND the disparate ways his speech is heard, perceived, described and contested by others - the mainstream media, Congress, the military, other centers of elite power, and crucially, the peace movement. |
| Iraq eases terms for oil projects
by Carola Hoyos, The Financial Times
February 26th, 2009
Iraq has sweetened the terms it is offering international oil companies vying to develop the country’s reserves in the first concrete example of a global shift in power beginning to sweep through the oil industry. |
| House Bill Pleases Rail-Transport Advocates
by Christopher Conkey, Wall Street Journal
January 29th, 2009
Advocates for mass-transit and passenger-rail service scored two victories in the House version of the economic-stimulus bill, adding $3 billion in mass-transit spending and beating back a proposal to cut Amtrak funding. |
| The Energy Security for American Families Initiative - a Policy Proposal
by Lisa Margonelli, New America Foundation
September 23rd, 2008
The Energy Security for American Families initiative will give moderate-income families the power to control their energy costs over the long term. Offering a combination of vouchers, low-interest loans, and market-based incentives, ESAF will enable working families to invest in energy-efficient cars, homes, and commutes. These families will be able to save money, year after year, gaining economic security. |
| Iraq Opens Oil Fields to Global Bidding
by Sudarsan Raghavan and Steven Mufson, The Washington Post
July 1st, 2008
raq's government invited foreign firms Monday to help boost the production of the country's major oil fields, beginning a global competition for access to the world's third-largest reserves. |
| Still waiting to cash in on Iraq's oil
by Steve Hargreaves, CNNMoney
November 9th, 2007
Bush officials originally said oil money could help pay for
reconstruction. But with production lagging, these funds barely cover the cost of running the government. |
| What Is Holding Up the Delivery of the Long-Awaited Iraqi Oil Law?
by Munir Chalabi, ZNet
August 22nd, 2007
As deadline after deadline and benchmark after benchmark passes and with all the pressure imposed by the IMF, the US Administration, the US oil lobby and International Oil Companies (IOCs) on the Iraqi government, the oil law, against all the odds, refuses to be born. |
| Four Hired Guns in an Armored Truck, Bullets Flying, and a Pickup and a Taxi Brought to a Halt. Who Did the Shooting and Why?
by Steve Fainaru, Washington Post
April 15th, 2007
On the afternoon of July 8, 2006, four private security guards rolled out of Baghdad's Green Zone in an armored SUV. The team leader, Jacob C. Washbourne, rode in the front passenger seat. He seemed in a good mood. His vacation started the next day.
"I want to kill somebody today," Washbourne said, according to the three other men in the vehicle, who later recalled it as an offhand remark. |
| Analysis: Iraq Oil Union Has Storied Past
by Ben Lando, UPI Energy Correspondant
March 29th, 2007
Hassan Jumaa Awad wants Iraq's oil to
stay under state control, and the unionists, who have long worked the
rigs, to be supported in developing the national resource. But this is
no request from the president of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions. |
| Iraq Maps Strategy to Revive Oil Fields
by Christian Berthelson and Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times
February 26th, 2007
After months of negotiations over the post-war spoils
of Iraq's most valuable natural resource, the government announced Monday night that it had approved a draft plan to ramp up oil production and share the proceeds. The agreement on the terms by Iraq's cabinet was touted as a major breakthrough. . . The United States has long wanted to capitalize on Iraq's oil resources, especially as a means of paying for the country's reconstruction since the 2003 invasion. |
| Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat
by Mark Mazzetti, The New York Times
September 23rd, 2006
"A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.
The classified National Intelligence Estimate attributes a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than that presented either in recent White House documents or in a report released Wednesday by the House Intelligence Committee, according to several officials in Washington involved in preparing the assessment or who have read the final document." |
| Interview with Ray McGovern, Part III
by Dahr Jamail, Truthout
September 5th, 2006
Final installment of a three-part series for Truthout in which Dahr Jamail speaks with Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst for 27 years and the co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). |
| The 10 Most Brazen War Profiteers
by Charlie Cray, AlterNet
September 5th, 2006
"Halliburton has become synonymous with war profiteering, but there are lots of other greedy fingers in the pie. We name names on 10 of the worst." |
| Interview with Ray McGovern, Part II
by Dahr Jamail, Truthout
August 28th, 2006
Second installment of a three-part series for Truthout in which Dahr Jamail speaks with Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst for 27 years and the co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) |
| Interview with Ray McGovern, Part I
by Dahr Jamail, Truthout
August 21st, 2006
First installment of a three-part series for Truthout in which Dahr Jamail speaks with Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst for 27 years and the co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). |
| The Case for Breaking Up Wal-Mart
by Barry C. Lynn, Harper's Magazine via AlterNet
July 24th, 2006
Wal-Mart's massive growth has begun to disrupt America's entire retail economy, forcing companies large and small to adapt to its ruthless practices if they want to do business. Is it time to bring in the government to break up the mega chain? |
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