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Project News
Crude Justice & Ecocide in the Niger Delta
By Leah Temper. Oil permeates our existence. From water bottles, plastics, fuels and paints to fertilizers, fabrics and solvents. Yet despite its ubiquity, the reality…
General News
BP summoned to answer for assault on Mother Earth for Gulf of Mexico spill
by Oilwatch The defence of the rights of the sea as an integral part of Mother Earth is being pursued in Ecuador using the Rights…
A call to action for Environmental and Climate justice
“After the success achieved with convincing Italians to vote against water privatization, Italian civil society is now calling to action for a broader set of…
Opinion
The sinking shipping industry: dream or nightmare?
By Nick Meynen. Warren Buffet is bearish on the shipping industry. The Economist blames all sorts of green regulations for their troubled waters. But while the…
Rafael Correa, Marx and extractivism
By Joan Martinez-Alier. President Rafael Correa of Ecuador asks when and where Marx criticizes mega-mining. In various interviews, Correa, the mouthpiece of mega-mining and the…
The Colombian mining locomotive has halted
by Joan Martínez-Alier. President Santos of Colombia continues to preach the virtues of what he calls the “mining locomotive” of the economy, based mainly on…
Is Umicore really the most sustainable company in the world?
By Nick Meynen UMICORE is elected as the ‘most sustainable company in the world’. A Canadian magazine that claims to defend ‘clean capitalism’ has put…
“Blood diamond” regulation system broken – but where to look for blame?
By Khadija Sharife and Nick Meynen. Ever since the international approval of Zimbabwean diamonds for export, the international regulatory system to prevent ‘blood diamonds’ from…
To Cook a Continent: book review
Instead of asking the question what can be done about or for Africa, Nnimmo Bassey asks a much more pertinent question: what is being done…
Durban and Rio: from one smokescreen to the next
At EJOLT we study and map cases of environmental injustice in a range of themes but the overall purpose is the same everywhere: showing that…
It’s paytime for Chevron’s ecological debt in Ecuador
On 3 January 2012, an appellate court in Ecuador confirmed an earlier lower court decision that found Chevron-Texaco guilty of a wide range of damages…
