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Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta by the photojournalist Ed Kashi documents the consequences of 50 years of oil extraction in the Niger delta

Peak oil should be good news for the environment, but not if it stimulates investment in even dirtier sources of energyWhen forecasts of fossil fuel reserves improve, how should we respond? A new report (pdf) by the trade...

• North Sea could power third of UK in 2020, says industry• Reserves nearly 25bn barrels, but more investment neededBritain's offshore oil and gas fields could still be delivering 1.5m barrels a day by 2020, enough to...

So, there we have all this oil, sitting in these nice thick oil shale beds out West and just waiting to turn some local in Colorado into the next "world's richest person"...

So, there we have all this oil, sitting in these nice thick oil shale beds out West and just waiting to turn some local in Colorado into the next "world's richest person"...

Canada courts Chinese investment in Alberta oil projects as US firms boycott tar sands fuelCanada, faced with growing political pressure over the extraction of oil from its highly polluting tar sands, has begun courting China...

• Californian legislation branded 'unconstitutional'• Lobby group includes UK energy companiesA lobby group that includes BP and Shell in its membership has launched a legal challenge against low-carbon legislation in...

Warnings of a crash in oil production are no longer limited to a prescient few individuals - major British companies and oil CEOs are now sounding the alertIn the years approaching the credit crunch, whistleblowers were limited...

• Virgin chief and fellow business leaders call for action• Energy crisis threatens to be more serious than credit crunchSir Richard Branson and fellow leading businessmen will warn ministers this week that the world...

Green Alliance says £12bn could be saved by ending support for high-carbon industries such as aviation and building fewer roadsMinisters could save £12bn of public spending over four years by clamping down on tax breaks...

• Government will claim CO2 fall helps meet 2020 targets• Experts say fall is only due to recession and energy pricesThe government is expected to confirm tomorrow that emissions of greenhouse gases fell by a modest amount...

I have heard the argument before that oil production is great, because it helps feed people in other countries, or it helps enrich poor nations, or it helps drive the economy of third world nations...

• Shell paid $2.2bn for leases to drill for oil off Alaska• Groups claim US government skimped on review of dangersRoyal Dutch Shell's controversial plans to drill for billions of barrels of oil in the Arctic's environmentally...

The “Don’t Fear the 2010s” article written by Nick Gillespie of the Wall Street Journal featured a section on Peak Oil and, after reading it, I found myself uttering the famous words of Homer Simpson: “Doh.” The...

• Investors call for review of oil production in Alberta• Tar sands deliver less than 2.5% of total oil and gas production Shell chief executive Peter Voser will be forced to defend the company's controversial investment...