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Wikileaks cable shines light on ENI corruption in Uganda; Heritage offered to pay bribes in Congo
• SECRET US CABLE SHINES LIGHT ON ENI CORRUPTION IN UGANDA • HERITAGE OFFERED TO PAY BRIBES IN CONGO ‘’If Tullow’s allegations are true – and we believe they are …” US Embassy, Kampala, 17 December 2009 A secret United States diplomatic cable (below and here) published by Wikileaks last week has exposed the real politics…
15 Dec 2010 mika -
Platform Newsletter – December 2010
PLATFORM Newsletter – December 2010 Dear All, Seasons greetings from the PLATFORM office! In this newsletter, we have a couple of suggestions of things that we have recently produced that would make nice, political Christmas prezzies, details of a new report on offshore oil drilling, an account of the ‘privilege training’ that we undertook in…
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Wikileaks: Shell “Infiltrated” Nigerian Government
A single diplomatic cable from Wikileaks has sparked a public relations disaster for Shell in Nigeria. Following a frontpage story in The Guardian on Thursday 9th December, Shell’s vice-like grip on Nigeria’s oil resources has been exposed. The leaked cables are highly revealing. Shell executive Ann Pickard boasts about infiltrating the Nigerian government with informants, and describes how…
10 Dec 2010 ben -
Wikileaks Cable: Shell’s Grip on Nigeria Revealed
Tonight The Guardian revealed how Shell uses a wide network of informants to infiltrate top government departments in Nigeria. The revelations are contained in a secret US embassy cables leaked via whistleblower website Wikileaks. The cable confirms what communities in the Niger Delta have long suspected. Shell wields enormous power over Nigeria and is actively exploiting…
8 Dec 2010 ben -
BREAKING: Ken Saro-Wiwa was framed, secret evidence shows
Last night coalition partners SpinWatch released fresh revelations in The Independent on Sunday exposing how Shell financed Nigerian military crackdowns on the minority Ogoni people and detailing new evidence to suggest Saro-Wiwa was framed by the military. This stream of revelations has emerged following a year of dedicated research into the evidence amassed against Shell…
6 Dec 2010 ben -
Power & Privilege Training
Power and privilege training has become commonplace in US social justice activism over the past decade as an integral part of making real and lasting change. Here in the UK, interest in engaging with this practice and developing our own models in a different context is growing; in Bristol in 2009 activists held a Race…
25 Nov 2010 Mel -
The Economics of Extraction – new article on the Niger Delta
(This article by Ben Amunwa first appeared in the current, oil-themed issue of Foto 8 magazine –https://www.foto8.com/new/in-print/8-magazine ) Outside the plane window at the Niger Delta, the oil region of Nigeria, I can see a solid bed of rainforest with wide ribbons of water the colour of coffee dregs coiling through it. I try to orientate,…
16 Nov 2010 Kevin -
Follow the Money – RBS article in Foto8 Magazine
(This article first appeared in the current, oil-themed issue of Foto8 magazine – https://www.foto8.com/new/in-print/8-magazine ) Despite the fact that there is not a single drop of crude to be found underneath the streets of London, the city acts as one the international capitals of the oil industry. Companies operate here to take advantage of the complex web…
16 Nov 2010 Kevin -
Follow the Money
Follow the Money – RBS article in Foto8 Magazine (This article first appeared in the current, oil-themed issue of Foto8 magazine – https://www.foto8.com/new/in-print/8-magazine ) Despite the fact that there is not a single drop of crude to be found underneath the streets of London, the city acts as one the international capitals of the oil…
