Here's a prediction: the Brent price fixing scandal will turn out to be larger than Libor. Energy prices ripple throughout the real economy and there will be not thousands but millions of angry punters ready to exercise a grievance if any of these allegations turn out to be true.

Oil company BP is being investigated over allegations of price-fixing, it emerged on Tuesday night. The European Commission said a series of unannounc...

Pollution and sabotage are linked in two ways: not only does sabotage cause pollution, pollution also causes sabotage. We know that garbage on the street increases the risk of criminality so there can be no doubt about the effect of massive oil pollution on the risk of sabotage.

This was meant to be a blog about Waitrose's relationship with fossil fuel giant Shell (Waitrose had been considering plans to open up shops in Shell petrol stations across the country), calling on Waitrose to end their partnership with the mass polluter. But Waitrose must be mind-readers because on Wednesday they did just that.

By Wim Thomas If we are serious about meeting our long-term energy needs in a sustainable way, then we need to get serious about using natural gas to...

Drilling for oil in the Arctic should be stopped until there are stronger protections against spills which could devastate the environment, MPs said t...

A key piece of equipment that would prevent a Gulf of Mexico style blowout has been field-tested for about the same amount of time that it takes me to get out of bed in the morning- and there was no independent verification of this anyway. Oh and did I mention that this equipment has never been tested in icy waters?

The row over executive pay was reignited on Tuesday after it emerged that rewards for blue-chip bosses rose 12% to an average of £4.8 million last ye...

Why is it that executive pay continues to seem so out of line with what common sense would tell us is justified?

Shell said today that it wanted a "speedy resolution" to a compensation dispute with farmers and fishermen after oil spills in Nigeria. Bosses said...

The price of petrol has reached a record high, meaning more misery for hard-pressed motorists. The average cost of a litre of petrol has risen to 1...

Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell today reported profits of $28.6bn (£18.1bn) for 2011, a jump of 54% on a year ago. The improvement for the Anglo-Dutch...