The 2025 Interconnected Disaster Risks report shifts focus from diagnosing problems to mapping out solutions. It establishes that many of today’s solutions are surface-level fixes, and that to create lasting change, we need to question the societal structures and mindsets that perpetuate these challenges. The report offers a more holistic …
on april 15, 1999, natives of Alaska delivered a message directly to oil giant bp Amoco's annual general meeting ( agm), telling shareholders what the management had refused to acknowledge until now: the company's drive for new oil worldwide threatens their culture and livelihood. Three Alaskan natives travelled thousands of …
after being awarded an area including the Kirthar national park in the Sindh province of Pakistan to explore oil, the transnational oil company PremierOil is lobbying to obtain permission to begin oil exploration in the protected area. However, the Sindh Wildlife Department (swd), under the aegis of which the park …
BLASTS followed by fire in four gas storage tanks of the public sector Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited ( hpcl ) Refineries at Visakhapatanam charred to death at least 25 people on the spot, injuring another 50, most of them Central Industrial Security Force ( cisf ) personnel on September 14. …
OIL exploration by foreign companies in the Orinoco river's delta has invited criticism from environmentalists and native Indians. The natives are concerned that these activities will ' damage their fishing and hunting grounds. Foreign oil companies, including Enron, British Petroleum (BP) and Conoco, have tied up with the state-owned Petroleos …
Exxon Corporation and Pertamina, Indonesia's national oil company, plan to begin building offshore plat forms that will enable them to drill into a natural gas field beneath South China Sea, near the Indonesian island of Natuna. The field, one of the world's largest, was dis covered in 1973, but has …
The Warao communities in the Orinoco river delta of Venezuela are up in arms against transnational companies involved in oil exploration in three areas of their homelands. At a conference in Tucupita, the capital of Delta Amacuro state, they demanded immediate end to all oil-related activities and an investigation into …
Huge reserves of gas have been found in the south-western part of Bangladesh, assessed to become the largest ever in the country. According to a Canadian study document released early this month, the finds extend over the known hydrocarbon prospective areas from the east to the west and the south …
IT WAS almost like the setting of a bi-tech futuristic movie scene: powerful tug-boats hauling a massive platform into an angry open sea; a 23,000 tonne structure anchored to the seabed by mile-long steel tubes and an 'on the sea' quarter module housing 106 people. And mind you, this is …
THE homeland of the Ogonis - Nigeria - has yielded yet another sizable reserve of oil, this time below the waters off its coasts. Royal Dutch/Shell, which conducts major oil exploration operations in the country, confirmed the off-shore find on March 11. The find was in an area called Bongo …
Scientists at the Greesthacht research centre In Germany have devised a remote-controlled underwater robot. This robot, designed to work 1,000 metres below the sea level, is being programmed to detect crude oil deposits beneath the sea bed. In addition, it can carry out repairs, change electric couplings or activate valves …
IN my innocence of the false charges f face here, in my utter conviction, I call upon the Ogoni people, the people of the Niger delta, and the oppressed ethnic minorities of Nigeria to stand up now and fight fearlessly and peacefully for their rights," said Ken Saro-Wiwa, the 54-year-old …
Ken Saro-Wiwa, the man whoSe death has forced the international community to confront its myriad inherent weaknesses, was born in Bori, near Port Harcourt, capital of River State in Nigeria. He has been variously described as an author, environmentalist and leader of the Ogoni people; he was all this and …
ALL it takes is a blow to settle a dispute: the blowout in the rig at Allawaram village in Pasarlapudi taluka, Andhra Pradesh, did just that. There is little question now that the Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) passed its brief: to bring the country as close as possible …
MURPHY'S oft-proven first law -- "If something can go wrong, it will" -- is something which appears to have been given the go-by, on their fast-forward to striking paydirt, by the decisionmakers at the Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC), if the experience at the recent blowout at Allwaram village …
IT WAS as if the sun that had slipped below the horizon less than an hour ago decided to stay up late and have a ball. With bang that could be heard 10 km away, an orange-red flame leapt up into the sky at the Oil and Natural Gas Commission …
INDIA'S interest in petroleum has grown rapidly. Understandably so, because the investments made are large and the returns fair, and could be even more attractive if we priced it properly. But, despite the growing interest in the mechanics of petroleum, it is virtually impossible to find a book that is …
RESIDENTs of oil-rich Rivers State in Nigeria are protesting the environmental impact of years of oil exploration. "Oil spills and blowouts have made our farmlands infertile, polluted our streams and fishing lagoons and damaged ecosystems beyond repair,'. complains Ken Saro-Wiwa of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, which …
THE MYANMAR military junta's plans to use income from oil and gas concessions to buy weapons to keep its brutal dictatorship going have run into a snag, as many of the disenchanted international oil companies have decided to pull out. After three years in fruitless exploratory drilling, most of the …
