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Nigerian Groups Denounce Proposed Shell Share Sale that Would Be Undertaken without a Full Cleanup
Move Would Allow Company to "Leave Devastation Behind and Walk Away without Consequence"
HOMEF, Social Action Nigeria, HEDA Resource Centre and Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre

16 December 2024

A proposed sale of Shell’s shares in the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to the Renaissance consortium, alongside similar divestments by TotalEnergies and other oil companies, threatens the environmental and social well-being of the Niger Delta and its people for generations to come, warned a letter from Nigerian groups released on 16 December 2024.

file iconURGENT CALL TO HALT ALL DIVESTMENTS IN THE NIGER DELTA

Twenty Years after its Founding Declaration, the Durban Group Reaffirms its Opposition to Carbon Markets
Continuing Global Swindle Denounced
Durban Group for Climate Justice

20 November 2024

In October 2004, activists representing diverse organizations and networks from around the globe came together in Durban, South Africa to strategize about the risks of the then-emerging carbon markets.

Now, after 20 years of violence, fraud, human rights abuses, ever-increasing fossil fuel burning, climate disasters, land grabs, ecological destruction and violation of the rights of Indigenous Peoples and communities located near polluters, the Durban Group for Climate Justice has been proved correct in its early warnings.

file iconThe Durban Declaration 20 Years on

Italian Activist Denounced by Oil Company
The Corner House Stands in Solidarity with Antonio Tricarico
ReCommon

18 November 2024

The Italian oil company Eni, through its head of the legal department Stefano Speroni -- who is under investigation as part of an enquiry into illicit dossier-keeping and espionage -- has denounced Antonio Tricarico of ReCommon in relation to statements Tricarico made during the RAI programme Report on 5 May.

file iconTricarico Denounced

Ecuador Wages 'Lawfare' on Indigenous Plaintiffs
after Historic Legal Victory against Chevron
Union de Afectados y Afectadas por las Operaciones Petroleras de Texaco

25 September 2021

Despite suffering 50 years of some of the world's worst oil-related contamination at the hands of Chevron and winning an historic 28-year battle that promised to result in a cleanup of the company's toxic legacy, Ecuadorian Indigenous plaintiffs in the case are now under legal attack from their own government.

file iconPress Release