Environment / Oil
Articles about Oil, ordered by date. 
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.
The Yasuní National Park oil blocks
The five oil concession regions in Yasuní National Park
‘Speak to us first!’
People from the Ecuadorian rainforest tell Fabrício Guamán what they think of their Government’s proposal to leave petroleum in the ground.
Yasuní – is this the way beyond petroleum?
Is Ecuador’s bold proposal not to exploit a billion barrels of oil in the Yasuní National Park a serious option for combating climate change? If so, the world is going to have to move fast, warns Vanessa Baird.
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