Supreme Court hears corporate human rights case
Updated: 2012-02-29 21:18:47
Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Supreme Court hears corporate human rights case Feb 29th , 2012 by John Donovan WASHINGTON , Feb 28 Reuters A number of Supreme Court justices expressed skepticism on Tuesday that corporations can be sued in the United States for alleged complicity in human rights abuses abroad , a case with important financial , legal and international implications The high court during arguments considered limiting the reach of a 1789 U.S . law that was largely dormant for nearly two centuries , but used in the past 20 years by foreign victims to sue multinational corporations for abuses committed . overseas The court’s conservatives voiced concern that
Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Court skeptical about overseas corporate abuse suits Feb 29th , 2012 by John Donovan By Robert Barnes Wednesday , February 29, 1:07 AM A majority of the Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed disinclined to allow human rights advocates to sue corporations in American courts over allegations that the companies might be complicit in atrocities committed . overseas About a dozen Nigerians charge that Shell Oil’s parent company aided and abetted the Nigerian government in torturing and killing people protesting the oil company’s operations in the Ogoni region during the . 1990s But conservative justices seemed skeptical that a more-than 200-year-old
Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Corporate Rights and Human Rights Feb 29th , 2012 by John Donovan On Tuesday , the Supreme Court heard arguments in Kiobel v . Royal Dutch Petroleum over whether corporations can be sued for human rights violations overseas . The plaintiffs filed suit in the United States under the Alien Tort Statute a law enacted by Congress in 1789, that empowers the federal courts to hear cases by foreigners bringing a civil suit for wrongs committed in violation of the law of nations . Should the Alien Tort Statute hold corporations liable for heinous crimes Is there a more effective way to do this DEBATERS A Permissable and Effective Way Oona A .
The release of the film version of the popular novel, “The Hunger Games,” has been preceded by a joint venture between the films stars, producers and two leading food aid organizations; World Food Programme (WFP) and Feed America.
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Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Hold Shell accountable for human rights abuses in Nigeria Feb 28th , 2012 by John Donovan Posted on February 28, 2012 by Ben Amunwa A global coalition of NGOs , human rights monitors , academics and analysts have joined Platform in sending a letter to the Board members of Royal Dutch Shell and Shell Nigeria which holds Shell to account for its role in recent human rights abuses in . Nigeria Below is a short extract from the : letter Today the US Supreme Court hears Kiobel v Shell a case that alleges Shell aided and abetted human rights violations and crimes against humanity committed by the Nigerian military against the Ogoni people from
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Although the BP / Deepwater Horizon trial maybe hogging the headlines, another courtroom battle is equally intriguing and important. It is almost 3 years since the trial of Wiwa versus Shell settled for $15.5 million on the eve of the trial. Along with the Wiwa action, there was a parallel legal case, Kiobel Versus Shell,...Continue reading 'Shell Should be Guilty Again'.
So the trial of the century may not happen after all. This morning, lawyers representing over 116,000 plaintiffs had been due in court in New Orleans to begin the trial against BP and other defendants resulting from the Deepwater Horizon. The trial could have lasted two years. Documents in the case run to more than...Continue reading 'BP Trial “Close to Settlement”'.
If Medicare is really an insurance program, than as I wrote last week, the premiums are absurdly low. And this isn’t even a rich-poor transfer issue – the premiums are too low for everyone. See the bar chart about halfway down on this page at the NY Times. Here is a screenshot: Take Social Security [...]
with Steve Kretzmann Much is being written and said about rising gas prices, Obama’s energy policies in general and the Keystone XL pipeline in particular. While the President’s opponents repeat ad infinitum the “Drill Baby Drill” mantra, it has been interesting to note that much of the mainstream press has been skeptical. And so they...Continue reading 'Rising gas prices, Keystone XL and the real solutions'.
If you read some of the Canadian press coverage, a recent scientific study has offered the pro-tar sands movement a real fillip in its attempts to spin its dirty fuel as “ethical oil” that is no dirtier than conventional crude. The Canadians are now essentially arguing it gives them the scientific back-up to carry on...Continue reading 'Tar Sands: “No get-out-of-jail-free card”'.
…in the long term, what the industry has affected is not increased security via Canadian oil to the gulf coast, but a concentration of the nation’s refining capacity in the heart of the nation’s hurricane corridor. The lessons of 2005 have clearly not been heeded. Pennsylvania labor activists marched on Capitol Hill yesterday in protest...Continue reading 'East Coast refinery shut downs are a symptom of the tar sands oil rush'.
2011 will remain as one of the year that shaped the fate of nuclear power the most. The Fukushima accident has had profound consequences on energy policies in several countries, and even France and its unique system have not escaped the controversy. But if the debate focuses mostly on an assessment of a partial or [...]
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Charles Hugh Smith
It’s not just gasoline consumption that’s declining–petroleum and electricity consumption are also dropping. Is that indicative of economic growth?
A number of readers kindly forwarded additional data sources to me as followup on last week’s entry describing sharply lower deliveries of gasoline. (Why Is Gasoline Consumption Tanking? February 10, 2012)
The basic [...]
Posted by Anders79 – 11 February 2012 at 3:50pm
A discussion between Anders Lorenzen, from SW London Greenpeace, and Rex Weyler one of the early Greenpeace pioneers, who’s still active today.
When Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, it was heralded as a victory by people the world over including myself. But as I looked more [...]
Posted on February 12, 2012
by Gail Tverberg
In the past month, three major peer-reviewed journals have published articles relating to limited world oil supply:
In Science,
Technology is Turning U. S. Oil Around But Not the World’s, by Richard A. Kerr;
In Nature, Climate Policy: Oil’s Tipping Point has Passed, by [...]
A drastic change in the way we produce and consume energy is necessary to contain the risk of a global environmental catastrophe. For its part, the EU has set targets for reduction of GHG emissions by up to 80-95% of 1990 levels by 2050 to keep global temperature increases below 2°C. One key policy for [...]
Each year the SEG (Society of Exploration Geophysicists) hosts an Honorary Lecture Program, which is a companion program to their long-standing SEG Distinguished Lecture Program. The purpose of the program is to recognize an individual’s contributions to advancing geophysical science and technology. The program also helps to foster a sense of community amongst geophysicists by [...]