Archives for December 2004

Talisman Energy and its apologists continually speak of "constructive engagement" with the Khartoum regime. Sadly, this same disingenuous characterization substitutes in Ottawa for an effective policy toward Talisman Energy ...

The Khartoum regime, its partnering oil companies, and the ongoing destruction of Sudan: an overview of recent news wire reports, newspaper and news magazine articles, television and radio documentaries, and reports from the ...

Today the Canadian Ecumenical Mission to Sudan reported on its recent assessment trip to the oil regions of southern Sudan---and it details extraordinary human destruction and suffering related to oil development. Also ...

The State of New York has divested from 353,000 shares of Talisman Energy. According to state officials in the Controller's Office, the largest American public institutional shareholder of Talisman (prior to divestment) has ...

The Government of Sudan is again deliberately engineering a genocidal famine directed against the peoples of southern Sudan. The UN's World Food Program has just urgently reiterated its estimate that 3 million Sudanese, ...

The most recent findings by the newest UN Special Rapporteur again highlight the immensely destructive role of oil development in southern Sudan. And they put yet again the most urgent moral question before Canadians: will ...

Western and Asian oil companies in Sudan: deliberately refusing to see the immensely destructive consequences of their presence. The Christian Aid report of last week presents in painfully authoritative detail the ...

The war on humanitarian relief by the Government of Sudan. The Christian Aid report ("Scorched Earth: Oil and War in Sudan," March 13, 2001) presents, as part of its larger assessment, a devastating indictment of the ...

The most authoritative, detailed, and fully-researched account of oil development in southern Sudan was released last week by Christian Aid (UK). It is a savage indictment of Talisman Energy, Lundin Oil, Petronas (Malaysia), ...

SCORCHED-EARTH WARFARE AND OIL DEVELOPMENT "SECURITY" IN SOUTHERN SUDAN: A Compendium of Evidence Despite overwhelming evidence in the form of testimony from eyewitnesses, extensive reporting directly from the oil regions ...