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Recommended Reading
Ignite
- issues 1 (Nov 1996) & 2 (Dec 1997), from Platform (address below) - satirical free newspaper looking at the oil industry, TNC culture and London. #1 fosuses on human rights and #2 on climate change and addiction.
“Pollution, politics and public relations” and “How to put a spanner in the oil industry’s works”
- in Do or Die, issue 7 (spring 1998) - a broad and critical picture of the oil and gas industry, focusing on the UK, together with discussion on tactics for challenging the industry, particularly through direct action. Available from Dead Trees EF!, PO Box 2971, Brighton BN2 2TT.
Shell Alternative Annual Report
- 1997, by Project Underground (address below) - in depth analysis of Shell’s PR rhetoric and the reality in Ogoni, and how the new development in Camisea in Peru is going the same way.
Drilling to the Ends of the Earth
- 1998, by Project Underground (address below) the case for abolition.
Oil in Nigeria: Corporate Dominance and Community Rights in Conflict
- J.G.Frynas (with Matthias Beck), LIT Verlag, Hamburg, forthcoming in 1999.
Putting the Lid on Fossil Fuels
- why the Atlantic should be a frontier against oil exploration, by Chris Rose, Greenpeace, 1997 - the basis of Greenpeace’s ‘No new oil’ campaign’: carbon logic argument for ending fossil fuel use, plus ecology of Atlantic Frontier.
‘Crude operators’
- by Andrew Rowell, in Ecologist Vol 27 No3, May/June 1997, p.99 - on general trends in the industry toward frontier areas, and the impact of these trends on people and nature.
Corporate Watch #5/6
- Winter 1997/98, pp.30-33 (see contact list) - three articles: BP’s corporate culture and power structure, and personality of chief exec John Browne; analysis of inadequate oil regulation by DTI; argument against trusting oil companies to develop renewable energy.
Index on Censorship #4
- August 1997 (tel. 0171 278 2313) - focusing on oil and human rights, especially Caspian Sea.
The Prize - the epic quest for oil, money and power
- by Daniel Yergin, pub. Simon & Schuster 1991 - The classic text on the history, politics and culture of the oil industry.
Oil, Shell Briefing Service, 1990
- The basic, easy-to-understand, introduction to what the oil industry does and how it does it - given by Shell to its employees. Available free with a good blag from Group Public Affairs (tel. 0171 934 5293).
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