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The mobile videogame, Age of Yasuní is now available for download. This is an effort to draw attention to the plight of indigenous peoples and the threat of oil to their fragile and biodiverse territories around the planet.

From the game you can learn, What is Yasuní? Why defend it? What are the threats caused by the expansion of the oil frontier?

We would like to invite you to be part of a global effort to publicize this initiative among your friends, network lists and in your web pages, and help us get the word out electronically so that people will download the game from the Apple Appstore and Google Play

posted 4 weeks 6 hours ago in News
 

Against the backdrop of the increasing interest in Africa by oil speculators and their aggressive determination to sink in their claws in every corner of the continent, the Oilwatch General Assembly will be taking place on the 14th to the 17th of May, 2012. Oil and gas and the promise of stupendous profits power up companies and governments who are insentitive to the plight of local peoples whose hopes for a better future are never realised.
The conference will be taking place in Accra, Ghana and is expected to be attended by oil watchers from across the continent who will be sharing ideas, honing strategies and creating stronger webs of resistance to degrading and unsustainable extraction. The theme for the conference is Oil Over Africa: Oil, Economic Booms and Bursts.

posted 5 days 16 hours ago in News
 

Between 23 and 30 April 2012, thousands of Amnesty International activists from over 14 countries will participate in organized events and protests calling on Shell to stop hiding the devastating effects that their activities in the Niger Delta have in the life of the people and the environment

Amnesty International recently had a chat with Nnimmo Bassey, one of the most recognized environmental leaders in the country of Nigeria

Read the Spanish version of this interview here

posted 2 weeks 5 days ago in News
 

An oil spill in Nigeria for which Royal Dutch Shell is being sued for tens of millions of dollars in a London court was at least 60 times worse than it announced, a report by Amnesty International said on Monday, citing research it commissioned.

posted 2 weeks 6 days ago in News
 

Arguing that the climate crisis confronting the world today is rooted mainly in the wealthy economies’ abuse of fossil fuels, indigenous forests, and global commercial agriculture, this important book by Nnimmo Bassey investigates how Africa has been exploited and how Africans should respond for the good of all. As it examines the oil industry in Africa and probes the causes of global warming, this record warns of its insidious impacts and explores false solutions. Demonstrating that the issues around natural resource exploitation, corporate profiteering, and climate change must be considered together if the planet is to be saved, the book suggests how Africa can overcome the crises of environment and global warming.

posted 3 weeks 6 days ago in News
 

The brewing war between Sudan and the fledgling state of South Sudan is a battle for oil and there are other potential conflicts in the Middle East and Africa that could signal supply disruption whatever happens in the U.S.-Iran face-off in the Persian Gulf.

Libya, one of North Africa's main producers, seems to heading for a new civil war only six months after Moammar Gadhafi's regime was overthrown with rival militias struggling for control of the country's oil riches.

posted 3 weeks 6 days ago in Updates
 

Ghana has this month reverted to electricity rationing, thanks to unreliable Nigerian gas supplies. But petty bickering over the location of Ghana’s unduly delayed gas infrastructure to harness local gas will cost the country in many more ways than meets the eye. The delay is already estimated to cost the country and the Jubilee partners several hundred million dollars in unrealised potential revenue from oil production. And now the decision to relocate the US$1.2billion facility from Bonyere to Atuabo is undermining social stability in two coastal Nzema communities in the Western Region.

posted 4 weeks 5 hours ago in News
 

The 4th Oilwatch General Assembly held in the city of Quito in Ecuador on the 23rd and 24th of July, 2011. The conference comprised delegates from Africa, Asia and Soutn America. The epochal assembly followed the heels of a well attended international conference titled "New Global Hegemonies - Same Old Problem?". The conference was co-hosted by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and Oilwatch.
The assembly affirmed that the network is expressly opposed to the continuation of the mode of civilisation driven by the use of fossil fuels. The network is undertaking a detailed study of the roots and consequences of the oil/fossil fuels civilisation. We are also looking at the idea of concrete alternatives.

posted 8 months 3 weeks ago in Reports
 

The fourth Oilwatch General Assembly gathered in Quito on the 23rd and 24 rd of July, 2011:  

Recognizing:

That we are living in a planetary crisis without precedent in the history of humanity, that in many ways it is already a catastrophic situation that demands global actions and commitments;

posted 8 months 3 weeks ago in News
 

Throughout Africa, oil has correlated with imperial subjugation, local authoritarianism and flagrant human rights abuses. It is now no longer in doubt that there are absolutely no guarantees that extractive activities are safe. One accident could jeopardise an entire ecosystem.

posted 1 year 3 days ago in News
 

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