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Those who own, extract, process, and sell the fossil fuels on which modern culture is (often regrettably) based make up perhaps the single most powerful industry in the world. While energy policy in the United States is made behind closed doors with oil barons, wars are fought in the Middle East over oil & gas, and geopolitics in South America is revolutionized on the power of vast oil reserves.

New Evidence Shows Main Chevron Witness Lied In $9.5 Billion Ecuador Lawsuit
by Richard Smallteacher, CorpWatch Blog
October 26th, 2015
A key witness has admitted under oath that he lied on behalf of Chevron, the California oil multinational, when the company sued to overturn a $9.5 billion verdict for pollution of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Angolan Fishing Community Asks Chevron For Oil Spill Compensation
by Richard Smallteacher, CorpWatch Blog
October 5th, 2015
Some 500 Angolan fisherfolk have demanded compensation from Chevron after an oil spill polluted the Mandarin and Mpuela shoreline in Cabinda last month, close to the California company's drilling operations. Under government orders, all fishing activity was banned for almost two weeks.

Cairn Energy Demands India Pay $5.6 Billion Or Drop Back Tax Claim
by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch
July 15th, 2016
Cairn Energy, a Scottish oil exploration company, has demanded that India pay $5.6 billion in compensation for losses that the company claims it has sustained as a result of a tax bill. The company has taken its claim to an arbitration panel under the United Kingdom-India Investment Treaty.

DESA Employees Arrested In Honduras For Murder Of Activist Berta Cáceres
by Pratap Chatterjee, Special To CorpWatch
May 2nd, 2016
Two employees of Desarrollos Energéticos SA (DESA) have been arrested and charged with the murder of Berta Cáceres, an activist who was fighting the Agua Zarca dam on the territory of the indigenous Lenca people in Honduras. DESA was awarded a permit to build the 22 megawatt dam in 2011.

Global Oil Companies Allegedly Used Monaco Lobbyist To Pay Bribes For Deals
by Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch Blog
April 1st, 2016
Unaoil, a lobbying firm based in Monaco, is being investigated by authorities in Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. for allegedly helping companies around the world pay bribes for oil concessions and contracts. Among the companies under scrutiny is Texas-based Kellogg Brown & Root, former subsidiary of Halliburton.

Navajo Diné Fight Uranium Resources Inc. Mining Permits In New Mexico
by Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch Blog
March 25th, 2016
The Navajo Diné community have notched up a victory over Uranium Resources Inc. decades old plan to dig for uranium at Crownpoint and Churchrock, New Mexico, by successfully appealing a state permit for the Colorado company to dump waste into the Westwater Canyon aquifer.

Soma Oil & Gas Faces UK Criminal Investigation for Somalia Deals
by Richard Smallteacher, CorpWatch Blog
August 5th, 2015
British regulators are investigating Soma Oil & Gas, a UK-based company, for allegedly paying bribes to the Somali government in exchange for exploration rights. Under scrutiny is the payment of $580,000 for “capacity building arrangements” at the Ministry of Petroleum in Mogadishu, according to Financial Times sources.

Shell’s Plans to Drill for Oil in the Arctic Blocked by Greenpeace Climbers
by Richard Smallteacher, CorpWatch Blog
July 31st, 2015
Greenpeace temporarily blocked Shell from drilling for oil in the Arctic by blocking the path of a specialized ice-breaking ship in Portland, Oregon. Thirteen climbers suspended themselves from a bridge while hundreds of local supporters paddled below in kayaks forcing the company to delay operations for almost two days.

Pemex Secretly Expanding Fracking In Mexico, Say Activists
by Richard Smallteacher, CorpWatch Blog
June 26th, 2015
Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), the state owned oil company, is quietly expanding operations to extract oil from shale deposits in six Mexican states. However, the company has failed to disclose its use of a controversial technology called fracking and explain the potential environmental impacts to local communities, say activists.

Soco International Accused of Paying Bribes for Congo Oil Exploration
by Richard Smallteacher, CorpWatch Blog
June 12th, 2015
Shareholders have demanded that the CEO of Soco International be fired after handwritten receipts for $42,250 in alleged bribes to Congolese army officials were published by Global Witness. At the time, the UK company was exploring for oil in Virunga, a United Nations World Heritage site in eastern Congo.

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