It began in 2021, when a climate justice coalition successfully forced multi-billion dollar corporation Shell to back out of developing the Cambo oilfield situated off the west coast of Shetland, keeping 170 million barrels of oil in the ground. Shell said it was a commercial decision. What they meant was that the risks and […]
Behind the missiles, bombs and bullets raining down on Ukraine lie fossil fuels. The rich world’s addiction to perpetual energy is financing a dictator’s war. The Ukrainians fleeing home and those who’ve stayed to fight are at the mercy of a twisted economic system. As the oil pumps, the blood spills. Oil and gas […]
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Stephen Young
What do we mean by ‘Big Oil’ anyway? It’s the umbrella term for BP, Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, Shell, and Total, the world’s six largest and richest publicly-traded oil and natural gas producers. Then there’s OPEC. An intergovernmental organisation set up in 1960 by five of the world’s largest oil producing countries, it co-ordinates the […]