The leaders of fossil fuel companies are personally incentivized to keep their firms on a path of climate destruction.
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Let Them Eat Carbon
Like Big Tobacco, Big Energy targets the developing world for future profits.
The Oil Spills You Never Heard Of
Spills, leaks and deliberate discharges are happening in oilfields all over the world and very few people seem to care.
World Bank OK With Blood For Oil
It has been a year since the horror of the bloodshed in Sudan’s Darfur region–with over 200,000 dead in three years–began leaking across the border into Chad. It has also been a year since a simmering conflict boiled over into a full-scale confrontation between World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz and Chadian President Idriss Deby. Are the two connected? In a word, yes. Here’s how.
Chad Proves Oil and Poverty Alleviation Don’t Mix
The African nation of Chad has forced the World Bank to back down in a dispute that illustrates the problems with lending to poor nations for oil and gas production.