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Bush Oil Buddies Divvy Up Iraqi Oil, Now Joined By "Liberal Scion" Peter Galbraith

Jackson Williams | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Age of Turbulence, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell, Kurdistan, Exxon-Mobil, Iraq, Joe Biden, Osama Bin Laden, Ray Hunt, Hunt Oil, Kuwait, John Kerry, Kurds, Desert Storm, Oil, New York Times, Afghanistan, Iraqi Oil, Alan Greenspan, Peter Galbraith, Politics News
Jackson Williams

Peter Galbraith, son of the famed economist, is in line to reap $100 million dollars -- maybe more -- from contracts between a Norwegian oil company and the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq.

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Gale Norton, Former Interior Secretary, Is Focus Of Corruption Probe

Los Angeles Times | Jim Tankersley and Josh Meyer | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gale Norton Probe, Gale Norton, Bush Administration, Justice Department, Royal Dutch Shell, Politics News

The Justice Department is investigating whether former Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton illegally used her position to benefit Royal Dutch Shell PLC,...

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New Dr. Strangeloves and the Prospect of Geo-Engineered Climate "Adaptation"

Sanjay Khanna | Posted 11.08.2009 | Green

Read More: United Nations Global Compact, Global Energy Assessment Council, Copenhagen 2009, Africa, President Emanuel Mori, 350.Org, Bill Mckibben, Grace Akumu, Royal Dutch Shell, Tallberg Forum, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Ged Davis, Dr. Strangelove, Scenario Planning, Our Common Future, Geoengineering, Climate Change, Mario Tokoro, Tallberg Foundation, Kenya, Chief Oren Lyons, Climate Mitigation, Climate Adaptation, Green News
Sanjay Khanna

This year's Tallberg Forum asked: "How on earth can we live together, within the planetary boundaries?" Some scientists and energy policymakers posed a different question that made my hairs stand on end.

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Big Oil Ready To Bid On Iraqi Oil Fields

Huffington Post | Morgan Korn | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: Exxon Mobil, Big Oil, Oil, Royal Dutch Shell, Baghdad, Chevron, Iraq, Oil Companies, Iraq Oil Fields, World News

Major international oil and gas companies have flown in representatives to Baghdad in preparation for tomorrow's bidding on Iraq's decadent oil fields...

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Shell's Settlement Doesn't Hide Unsettling Reality in Nigeria

Stephen Kretzmann | Posted 07.11.2009 | World

Read More: Royal Dutch Shell, Nigeria, Nigeria Oil, Ogoni-Nigeria, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Niger Delta, Shell Oil, Nigerian Government, World News
Stephen Kretzmann

Is $15.5 million is enough to compensate for the hanging of nine men, the death of thousands more, and for the destruction of an ecosystem?

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The Free Market's Marked Men, From The Niger Delta To The Amazon

Amy Goodman | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Niger Delta, Alien Tort Claims Act, Wiwa v. Shell, Lima, World, World News, Environment, Politics News, Oil Spills, Peru, Peruvian Jungle Interethnic Development Association, Shareholders, Corporate Crime, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Amazon, Human Rights, Alberto Pizango, U.S./Peru Trade Promotion Agreement, Chevron, Africa, Royal Dutch Shell, Oil, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Pollution, Shell Oil, Center for Constitutional Rights, Rainforests, Ken Wiwa, Alan Garcia, Ecuador, Oil Companies, Genocide, Green News, Breaking Politics News, Ogoni, Ptpa, Aidesep, World News
Amy Goodman

Ken Saro-Wiwa's family and others just won a landmark settlement in U.S. federal court, ending a 13-year battle with Shell Oil. Alberto Pizango's ordeal is just beginning.

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Nigeria: Shell Agrees To Pay $15.5M In Landmark Human Rights Case

AP | CHRIS KAHN | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Nigeria, Nigeria Anti-Oil Campaigners, Royal Dutch Shell, Nigeria Shell Lawsuit, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Shell Nigeria, Nigeria Shell, Shell Nigeria Pay, Shell, World News

NEW YORK — Royal Dutch Shell agreed to a $15.5 million settlement Monday to end a lawsuit alleging that the oil giant was complicit in the execu...

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The Video Shell Doesn't Want You to See

Han Shan | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: Corporate Crime, Earthrights International, Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Royal Dutch Shell, Shell Oil, Nigeria, World News
Han Shan

Multinational oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has done everything in its power to stop a trial that would require them to answer to charges of human rights abuses.

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U.S. Fights Corporate Bribes

wsj.com | DIONNE SEARCEY | Posted 06.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Sun Microsystems, Trace International, Royal Dutch Shell, FCPA, Lucent, Corporate Bribes, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Sun Microsystems Bribery, Disney World, Bribery, Mark Mendelsohn, Business News

The Justice Department is increasing its prosecutions of alleged acts of foreign bribery by U.S. corporations, forcing them to take costly steps to de...

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The Real Modern Pirates? MNCs Beyond the Rule of Law

Terra Lawson-Remer | Posted 06.24.2009 | World

Read More: Southern District, Corporate Responsibility, Corporations, Nigeria Oil, Nigeria, International Law, Royal Dutch Shell, Shell Oil, Corporate Power, Sdny, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Lawsuit, Niger Delta, Atca, Ats, World News
Terra Lawson-Remer

The most common modern pirates are multinational corporations operating beyond the rule of law. The U.S. can and should take firm measures against this kind of piracy, just as we have against the Somali pirates.

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Remembering Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Ken Saro-Wiwa

Ka Hsaw Wa | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

Read More: Earthrights International, Human Rights, Ogoni Nigeria, Royal Dutch Shell, Nigeria, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Goldman Prize, World News
Ka Hsaw Wa

Fourteen years ago, Ken Saro-Wiwa leadna powerful non-violent movement against oil giant Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria. He was hanged seven months later after a sham trial condemned around the world.

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Oil Companies Balk At Following Obama's Green Lead

New York Times | JAD MOUAWAD | Posted 05.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Oil Industry, Barack Obama, President Obama, Renewable Energy, Exxon, Royal Dutch Shell, Obama Administration, Green Energy, Oil Companies, Green News

The Obama administration wants to reduce oil consumption, increase renewable energy supplies and cut carbon dioxide emissions in the most ambitious tr...

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"Exxon Profit Down 33% in the Fourth Quarter": Please Pity Poor Exxon!

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 03.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Bush Administration, Royal Dutch Shell, George W. Bush, Exxon Mobil, American Petroleum Institute, Opec, Bush Administration Oil, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Oil Profits, Exxon Profits, Davos Oil, Davos, Oil Prices, Exxonmobil, Exxon, Bush Pol, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

How many Americans would have a little more in their savings accounts to see them through tough times if some new alibi didn't enshrine each new high in the price of oil?

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Shell And Iraq Government Agree On Landmark $4 Billion Deal

Financial Times | Ed Crooks and Roula Khalaf | Posted 10.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Iraq Oil, Royal Dutch Shell, Iraq, Shell Oil, Iraq Oil Money, Business News

Royal Dutch Shell is to become the first western oil company to sign a deal with the Iraqi government since the US-led invasion of 2003, agreeing a pl...

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Shell Shuts Down Nigerian Oil Field After Attack

AP | EDWARD HARRIS | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Violence, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, African Oil, Oil Production, Oil Industry, Nigerian Oil Field Attack, Shell Nigeria, Royal Dutch Shell, Shell Nigeria Attack, Shell Oil, Business News

LAGOS, Nigeria — Militants in speedboats raided an oil installation off Nigeria's southern coastline on Thursday, forcing Royal Dutch Shell to s...

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