Environment / Oil
Articles about Oil, ordered by date. 
My spy
Why did an oil company go to such lengths to monitor Jess Worth’s activism? Perhaps we are more powerful than we think.
Big Oil's looming bubble
Investors are starting to wonder whether oil’s such a good bet, reveals Jeremy Leggett.
A year of oil resistance
Around the world, local communities have been hitting the oil monster where it hurts.
Ending the oil age
Change is coming. Jess Worth examines whether growing pressure for divestment and disruption can knock Big Oil off its perch.
A tsingular beauty
Kara Moses reports on plans to dig bitumen in Madagascar.
Sticky business
Canada has put all its eggs into one big basket full of tar sands. That’s a major mistake, argues Andrew Nikiforuk – for the country and the planet.
Introducing... The Eight Great Greenwashers
Ahead of the Rio +20 Earth Summit, Danny Chivers exposes the canny, crafty and plain deceitful claims of corporations co-opting 'sustainability'
The dirt on Teodoro Obiang
Time to take aim at the tyrannical President of Equatorial Guinea in this month's 'Worldbeater'.
Putting the 'I' in ecocide
22 April is Earth Day. Should punishment be made to those personally responsible for destroying our planet?
Fracking the world
Hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’ – Big Oil’s newest way to extract natural gas from an exhausted planet – comes with a terrible environmental price tag. Joyce Nelson digs deeper.
Oil or life? Ecuador’s stark choice
Esme McAvoy is in the Amazon to find out what’s happening to the Yasuní proposal.
That petrol emotion: BP's 'cleanup' of the Gulf of Mexico
Adam Ma’anit peers beyond the smoke and mirrors at BP’s ‘clean up’ of the Gulf of Mexico.
Taking on Tarmageddon
The international campaign to shut down the tar sands is shaping up to be an iconic battle, reports Jess Worth.
Bloody oil
Canadian First Nations internationalize their struggle against the most destructive project on earth
Slick operators
Jess Worth meets two indigenous activists battling Big Oil's dirty tricks.
Plastic plants
As oil supplies dwindle, the plastic industry is pinning its hopes on biomass. Not a great idea, reasons Jim Thomas.
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