COP: Damaged and Lost

COP: Damaged and Lost

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Conference of Parties (COP) have studiously avoided naming fossil fuels as the Primary source of greenhouse gases driving climate change. The United Nations estimates that fossil fuels account...
Fossil futures built on a house of cards

Fossil futures built on a house of cards

This report looks at how fossil fuel actors are seeking to expand the voluntary carbon market to enable the continuation of the fossil fuel economy. The demand for carbon offsets is forecast to skyrocket in the coming years, for several reasons: COP26 in 2021 gave the...
Woes of the Wellhead

Woes of the Wellhead

A special report on the wellhead blowout from Aiteo OML 29 Well 1 in Nembe, Bayelsa State. Hundreds of well blowouts have been reported during the history of the oil and gas drilling activities globally. These undesired events have led to loss of lives and utter...
Africa caught in the Fossil Trap

Africa caught in the Fossil Trap

Before the rise of fossil resources extraction in Africa, most countries operated agrarian economies as their primary source of exchange. Other economies depended on mining while some others had a mix of mining and agriculture. The economic impact of oil discovery...