Archives for December 2004

"The Economic Rewards of Misunderstanding Sudan's Civil War" The complexity and ghastly duration of Sudan's civil war have slowly worked to obscure in the minds of many, especially in Canada and Europe, a fundamental reality ...

Baptist Union of Western Canada divests from Talisman Energy Freedom Quest International (Calgary) reports today (January 24, 2002) that the Baptist Union of Western Canada has decided to divest itself of shares in ...

The Senate Republican leadership continues to block conferencing of the Sudan Peace Act, evidently convinced that they can ride out the storm of outrage over their procedural bottling up of this critically important ...

The nexus between oil development and massive human destruction in southern Sudan has not only been authoritatively established by every credible human rights organization and assessment mission to have studied the issue, ...

The connection between oil development and the exacerbating of catastrophically destructive civil war in Sudan has long been clear and authoritatively documented. But very recent developments make even clearer that the ...

Talisman Energy continues to deny that there has been any civilian displacement from the areas in and around its oil concessions in southern Sudan. Declaring they've researched the issue "more thoroughly than anyone else" ...

The Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD) is a consortium of East African nations comprising Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Sudan. A number of years ago IGAD formed a Secretariat given over to ...

Khartoum's barbaric attack on civilians at Bieh---nine days later Eric Reeves  | March 1, 2002  |  http://wp.me/p45rOG-ne Much has been clarified in the days since February 20, when Khartoum sent two helicopter gunships ...

What is the evidence against Talisman Energy in the class action lawsuit that it faces in United States District Court? How directly can Talisman be tied to the authoritatively established scorched-earth warfare in the ...

Lawsuit Against Talisman Energy Moves Forward Vigorously The class action lawsuit brought against Talisman Energy for its role in the oil-driven destruction of southern Sudan continues to move forward in US District Court. ...