global highlights - oil and gas
On an international level we work to put an end subsidies from publicly-funded institutions like the World Bank and Export Credit Agencies to oil, gas and mining projects. We challenge the world's governments to redirect their support towards economic alternatives that could take us towards equitable and sustainable societies. At the same time, we call upon people everywhere to think critically and creatively about what they really need to consume and produce.
Construction in 2001 of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline part financed by the World Bank. The project turned sour when the President of Chad changed the terms of the agreement and used the resulting oil funds to buy weapons rather than investing in public health,
education and vital infrastructure as was
agreed.
Meanwhile the people of Chad have not felt any of the benefits of the oil boom. Life expectancy is one of the lowest in the world at 42 years and 74% of adults are illiterate.
taking shell to court
FoE Nigeria and FoE Netherlands are using legal channels to force oil companies, especially Shell, to clean up their operations in Nigeria.
shell: use your profits to clean up your mess
To expose Shell’s dereliction of duty, Friends of the Earth International took out two-page advertisements in the Volkskrant (Netherlands) and a one-page ad in the Guardian (UK) newspaper.
oil refineries emit smoke, not flowers
When Friends of the Earth campaigners saw a Shell advertisment depicting a refinery smokestack emitting only flowers, instead of smoke, they filed simultaneous complaints to three European national advertising standards authorities in the Netherlands, England and Belgium.
no ebrd money for sakhalin pipeline
In 2007, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced that it would no longer consider funding the Sakhalin II project, which will produce offshore gas and oil from Russia’s far eastern coast.
world bank funded pipeline under investigation
Friends of the Earth International has been working with FoE groups in West Africa to support a stronger network of communities affected by the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP). In 2007 the World Bank inspected the controversial pipeline project.
