Oil giant Shell has recently won the Big Oil race to become the first major oil company to gain access to Iraq’s energy sector since the 1970s. Corporate Watch reports

SchNEWS reports on the on-going protests against a new Shell pipeline being constructed in Ireland, and the heavy-handed police and Shell-security response.

The only UK connection to the dispute in Nigeria is that the practices of British oil companies have helped create the resentment that turned to rebellion. We should not get involved in more killing for oil, says Craig Murray

The Iraq war was never about buying Iraq’s oil, says Tom Mills, it was about selling it. The international oil corporations are hanging in there for the biggest prizes.

Activists gathered today to sing a new hymn of hope to an oil-free future in the Unnatural History Museum, where the heartbreakingly beautiful Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition has just opened.