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Oil firms must compensate the people of Nigeria
Platform coordinated this letter in the Observer newspaper, originally published on 4 July 2010. Oil firms must compensate the people of Nigeria Grilled in Congress, shares down to ÂŁ3 and forced to pledge billions of dollars in compensation, BP is paying the price for the damage it has caused in the Gulf of Mexico –…
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Remember Saro-Wiwa Newsletter – June 2010
remember saro-wiwa DEEPWATER HORIZON: COMMENT & ANALYSIS Dear RSW supporters, We present fresh analysis of what the BP disaster could mean for the Niger Delta. You can add your opinion here. Media enquiries: Ben Amunwa on +44207 357 0055, ben@remembersarowiwa.com. The $20 Billion Question On day 57, the US government forced BP to allocate $20 billion…
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Should RBS get credit for going green?
CLIMATE change protesters are threatening direct action protests against the Royal Bank of Scotland over dealings with the oil industry. They say the bank invests more in the fossil fuel industry than any other in the UK and claim this is damaging the planet. The Government-owned bank, however, prides itself on its environmental record. The…
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Taxpayers’ money involved in financing controversial tar sands companies
New report exposes RBS involvement in Canada’s “blood oil” Bank executives meet in Toronto and discuss concerns about public backlash over involvement in tar sands Environmental and development groups announce a week of protest around the RBS AGM in April over the bank’s tar sands investments It’s been revealed that RBS have been involved in…
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The Treasury, UKFI and RBS – the Government’s biggest climate change failure
Evidence submitted by Green Alliance, People & Planet, Platform and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to the parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee. This evidence outlines the extent to which RBS are continuing to provide finance for significant projects responsible for climate changing emissions, what UKFI is doing about this, what they would need…
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New legal action over latest RBS bail out
Last November’s ÂŁ25 billion cash injection deemed ‘unlawful’ by campaigners Treasury’s intervention in bankers’ bonuses strengthens campaigners case Three pressure groups today served the Treasury with their application to the High Court, challenging last November’s decision to provide a further ÂŁ25 billion of public money to the Royal Bank of Scotland. According to the Treasury’s…
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Royal Bank of Sustainability?
At the end of 2008, UK taxpayers became majority owners of the Royal Bank of Scotland, one of Britain’s largest banks. So, since we’ve paid for it, shouldn’t we have some say in how it is run? Kevin Smith, from the campaigning organisation Platform, puts the case –Â https://www.redpepper.org.uk/Royal-Bank-of-Sustainability/. In the year since it was…
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Shell Must Clean Up Its Act in Nigeria
First published in The Guardian, by Chima Williams (Environmental Rights Action/FoE Nigeria) as told to Ben Amunwa. As Nigerian villagers take Shell to court over huge oil spills, it’s time for the group to take responsibility for polluting practices. A court in The Hague is considering whether Shell can be held liable for alleged pollution in Nigeria, and…
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Remember Saro-Wiwa Newsletter: December 2009
Today, a court in the Hague will consider for the first time whether Royal Dutch Shell can be held liable for destroying the livelihoods of four villagers in the Niger Delta. View original. Among the plaintiffs is Chief Barizaa, an Ogoni elder, who spoke of how oil spills from a Shell pipeline devastated his land in 2005…
