Break Free From Fossil Fuels
“Break Free From Fossil Fuels”: worldwide escalated mobilisations to end the fossil fuel era GLOBAL — Today, 9th March 2016, a global platform “Break Free” has been launched featuring a series of peaceful, escalate…
New PIB: Coming in Four Draft Bills?
New PIB is coming in four parts Petroleum industry watchers in Nigeria have been wondering whether the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) that has been in the works for almost a decade would eventually be junked. Information …
Halt the Assault on the Ekuri Community and other Forests
Some of the best preserved rain forests in Nigeria are the Cross River National Park and the Ekuri Community Forest all in Cross River State, Nigeria. These forests are under serious threat of being destroyed to make way…
Ending Gas Flaring, Building Mini Refineries
There are two oily stories that should catch our attention. One is about designing and fabrication of a refinery at a Nigerian university and the second one is about new dates for ending gas flaring in Nigeria. First is …
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Download and read the 10th edition of Eco-Instigator Analyses of COP21, Reports and Books you should read. All in the package. Read. Share. Send comments. Contribute to future editions. Eco-Instigator #10…
Eco-Instigator #10
As is the tradition of HOMEF, Eco-Instigator #10 was issued at close of December 2015 in order to bring you some comments from the Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). …
Dreadful Liars on Heartless Shores
Corporatized consciences Think little of spreading fires Dreadful liars Selling adaptation suits for funeral pyres 3 degrees 5 degrees 7 degrees Flame throwers watch the Planet burn As fire works herald the New Ye…
Infernal Oil Pipes of the Niger Delta
Perhaps the most horrendous crude oil pipeline incident of 2015 was an explosion that occurred on 9 July while repairs of a damaged pipeline were ongoing at Azuzuama, along Nigerian Agip Oil Company’s Tebidabe-Clough Cre…
Two Good Days of Inspiring Indignation
For two days in the Maison des Metallos, Paris, experts, victims, prosecutors and judges presented or listened to cases of crimes against Mother Earth and at the end judgements were passed. There were solemn spiritual mo…
The Secure and the Dispossessed
This is a synopsis of the great book, THE SECURE AND THE DISPOSSESSED, from the TNI staple: What if government and corporate elites have given up on the idea of stopping climate change and prefer to try to manage its con…
Recognising Climate Crooks
The COP is an interesting space where climate criminals prowl about in well cut suits dripping with blood. Of course the COP means two key things: Conference of Polluters and more importantly, Conference of Procra…
