The systemic failure of the Nigerian government and oil giant Shell to clean up the horrendous oil pollution in the Niger Delta has been branded 'shameful' by a group of Nigerian and international NGOs.
… fundamental failures in Shell's processes for cleaning up oil spills. It also described how … defended, and continues to use, methods for cleaning oil spills declared ineffective by …
A year after Shell was forced into a £55 million settlement with an indigenous community in Nigeria devastated by oil spills, a UK High Court judge has allowed two new such cases to proceed on behalf of some 43,000 subsistence farmers and fishers whose livelihoods have been wiped out by the same cause.
… Shell on to accept its responsibilities by cleaning up the oil spills and compensating …
The UK government kicked away one of the main financial supports for renewable energy in yesterday's budget. The surprise move will cost the sector £3.9 billion over the next five years and undermines any prospect of the country meeting its EU renewable energy targets.
Osborne's £3.9bn stealth attack on renewables Oliver Tickell | 9th July 2015 News UK Energy Renewables Biomass Politics Finance osborne-cut.jpg The UK government kicked away one of the main financial …
The UK government's response to the Supreme Court's order to clean up air quality in key urban areas has been condemened as vague, weak and slow, lacking in clear targets and compulsory measures. New figures reveal that over 50,000 people a year are being killed by air pollution.
Government faces new legal action over UK's deadly air pollution Oliver Tickell | 14th September 2015 News Pollution Health Law UK air-pollution-edinburgh-cut.jpg The UK government's response to the …
India's renewable power capacity is set to reach 170GW by 2022, write Areeba Hamid & Oliver Tickell - reducing power shortages and bringing electricity to off-grid of rural communities for the first time. But it may also have an unintended consequence - cutting off investment in India's troubled coal sector as prospects for future profitability evaporate..
Renewables to transform India's energy landscape in seven years Areeba Hamid Greenpeace EnergyDesk Oliver Tickell | 20th February 2015 News India Energy Coal Fossil Fuels Renewables Solar Finance …
Days into the 2017 pollution limits on the Brixton Road in Lambeth, South London, has already breached EU pollution limits for NO2 for the entire year. Meanwhile UK sales of diesel cars - one of the main causes of NO2 pollution - reached record levels in 2016, reflecting the government's failure to tackle the problem in spite of numerous court orders.
London breaches air pollution limit for all 2017 Oliver Tickell | 6th January 2017 News Pollution UK Health Law Transport brixton-rd-cut.jpg Days into the 2017 pollution limits on the Brixton Road in …
In the run-up to the COP21 climate summit in Paris the G20's Antalya Communiqué is weaker on climate, fossil fuel subsidies and support for renewable energy than the G20's 2009 Pittsburgh Statement made shortly before the failed COP15 in Copenhagen six years ago.
Weeks before COP21, G20 fail the climate challenge Oliver Tickell | 16th November 2015 News Climate Change COP21 G20 Energy Renewable Finance Fossil Fuels Unfccc g20-turkey-cut.jpg In the run-up to …
If we are to move beyond the political impasse generated by the IPCC report and prevent catastrophic climate change we must look to market mechanisms, specifically price competitive renewables, writes Oliver Tickell......
The IPCC has spoken. Now what? Oliver Tickell | 2nd October 2013 News Climate Change Ipcc Renewables Carbon Tax Politics solar.jpg Giant solar installations, like the 4,000 MW power plant planned for …
A new report on fracking and climate change from the Task Force on Shale gas presents a rosy picture of the fuel's role as a climate-friendly 'bridge' to a renewable energy future, writes Oliver Tickell. But the truth is the precise opposite - it's a climate disaster that will only delay the arrival of clean energy.
Fracking will only dig our fossil fuel addiction deeper Oliver Tickell | 16th September 2015 Comment Energy Fracking Cliamte Change Emissions Renewables Politics pm-shale-gas-visit-cut.jpg A new …
The Conservation Law Foundation has just filed the first lawsuit against ExxonMobil for violations under the Clean Water Act and other laws, committed in its deliberate, reckless and deceitful cover-up of it's true knowledge of the dangers of climate change.
ExxonMobil sued over climate cover-up Oliver Tickell | 30th September 2016 News Law Climate Change Corporations USA mystic-river-cut.jpg The Conservation Law Foundation has just filed the first …
Vultures have become one of the most threatened families of birds on the planet thanks to poisoning by the veterinary drug diclofenac. Now Birdlife has discovered that it's on sale in Europe - threatening to wipe vultures out and undermine significant EU investments in vulture conservation.
Europe's vultures face extinction from toxic vet drug Oliver Tickell | 8th September 2014 News Birds Farming Health Extinction EU Spain Italy bearded vulture by joachim s mã¼ller-cut.jpg …
Campaigners fear that the abolition of DECC, the department of energy and climate change, indicates that climate will take a low priority in Theresa May's policy agenda. Meanwhile the pro-fracking, pro-nuclear Andrea Leadsom is in charge of environment department Defra.
Dis-May-ed! DECC scrapped, Leadsom to run Environment Oliver Tickell | 14th July 2016 News Politics UK Energy Climate Change Brexit Economics leadsom-cut.jpg Campaigners fear that the abolition of …
The EU faces a choice: a green, democratic future of clean prosperity and social justice? Or a dirty future of corporate domination with resurgent nuclear power, expanding fossil fuels, GMO agriculture and weak human and environmental protection? Junckers' Commission represents the latter. We must assert our own vision - or there will be little worth staying in for.
Europe on the brink - green future or industrial wasteland? Oliver Tickell | 12th December 2014 Comment EU UK Nuclear Natural World Trade Finance euro-comm-cut.jpg The EU faces a choice: a green, …
A huge raft of environmental reforms is promised in the Labour Party's draft manifesto, writes Oliver Tickell. Among the highlights: a ban on fracking; a clean energy policy based on renewables and efficiency; no commitment to new nuclear power; to meet our Paris Agreement obligations on climate; to give companies a legal obligation to protect the environment; to retain all EU environment laws post-Brexit; and multilateral nuclear disarmament.
Corbyn's green vision wins: leaked manifesto promises huge environmental gains Oliver Tickell | 11th May 2017 News Politics Transport Energy Climate Change Brexit Conservation Farming Efficiency …
The UK's troubled Hinkley C nuclear power station faces a legal challenge from Germany's biggest energy co-op, which claims that the subsidy package will distort energy markets across Europe and disadvantage renewable generators and vendors.
Greenpeace Energy to launch legal challenge to UK nuclear subsidies Oliver Tickell | 5th March 2015 News Nuclear UK Germany EU Economics Law gpe-csm_windpark_buchhain-cut.jpg The UK's troubled …
A new study explains for the first time how nanoparticles like those in diesel exhaust fumes cause heart disease by lodging in inflamed blood vessels, writes Oliver Tickell. The study, published as the UK government is ordered before the High Court to justify its refusal to publish plans to tackle illegal air pollution which afflicts 38 million people, also raises wider fears about 'engineered nanoparticles' in the environment.
As government delays pollution plan, study shows how killer nanoparticles cause heart disease Oliver Tickell | 26th April 2017 News Science Pollution Health UK Law Technology …
Despite record heat and drought Australia's emissions and coal exports are soaring, says a new report, and both are increasing as a matter of government policy. But a homegrown climate action movement is putting a spanner in the works - and just stopped its first coal train.
Train crash - Australia 'heading backwards' on emissions Kieran Cooke Oliver Tickell | 19th December 2014 News Australia Coal Fossil Fuel Politics Climate Change first_rail_cut.jpg Despite record …
The fossil fuel industry and its political backers have been left reeling by an unprecedented series of direct action strikes against targets across the country to protest at continuing investment in and official support for fossil fuels, inaction over fuel poverty and the systematic neglect of renewable energy despite the global climate emergency.
Reclaim the Power! Climate protestors rout security with UK-wide fossil fuel strikes Oliver Tickell | 1st June 2015 News Energy Fossil Fuels Nuclear Coal Climate Change Protest UK Politics …
Despite strong public support for wind and solar power in an official survey published today, the UK's likely failure to meet its EU renewable energy target, and an impending legal challenge, Energy Secretary Amber Rudd today told MPs she would not be reversing recent cuts, writes Oliver Tickell.
Facing legal action, strong support for solar and wind, Rudd refuses to reverse cuts Oliver Tickell | 10th November 2015 News Energy UK Renewables Politics amber-rudd.jpg Despite strong public …
A Lancashire grandmother is to appear in a Preston court tomorrow to defend a £55,000 claim pressed by fracking company Cuadrilla and its CEO Francis Egan for the costs of an eviction that never even took place, writes Oliver Tickell. Now a campaign calling on Cuadrilla to drop its unjust and oppressive legal action is gaining momentum - and its Egan who's on the defensive.
Cuadrilla - drop your £55,000 claim against Lancashire fracking 'Nana'! Oliver Tickell | 8th December 2016 Activism Fracking Law Protest Climate Change Corporations tina.png A Lancashire grandmother …
Less than a week ago Amber Rudd was basking in the glory of the Paris Agreement. Today, she's betraying all her high-flown rhetoric as she smashes up what's left of the UK solar industry with a deep cuts in incentives to solar generators and the imposition of 20% VAT.
Deep cuts and VAT bring ruin to UK solar industry Oliver Tickell | 17th December 2015 News Renewables Solar Energy Finance Politics UK solar-farm-cut.jpg Less than a week ago Amber Rudd was basking …
Are you suffering from cognitive dissonance? You should be, writes Oliver Tickell. After the most ferocious attack a UK government has ever mounted on the environment, David Cameron just claimed that his is the 'greenest government ever', as Amber Rudd proclaims her commitment to climate action. What's going on?
Buy Conservative! No other party washes greener Oliver Tickell | 24th July 2015 Comment Climate Change Energy Renewables Nuclear Politics cameron-green-tie-cut.jpg Are you suffering from cognitive …
A letter from Energy Secretary Amber Rudd leaked to The Ecologist shows that she misled Parliament by promising the UK was 'on course' to deliver on its renewable energy targets - when in fact there is a delivery shortfall in 2020 of almost 25%. Her plan to fill the gap relies on more biofuels, buying in green power and 'credits' from abroad - everything but wind and solar.
Leaked letter: Rudd admits 25% green energy undershoot, misled Parliament Oliver Tickell | 9th November 2015 News Energy Renewables Politics Finance EU UK Law rudd-2-cut.jpg A letter from Energy …
The rapid spread of solar power across China, India, Africa and Latin America is being driven not by subsidy but by the market
Renewable Revolution or Nuclear Nightmare? Oliver Tickell | 13th July 2012 News Nuclear Energy Renewable Energy Renewables Oliver Tickell Clean Energy renewable revolution.jpg The rapid spread of …