CorpWatch: Music Video Asking Unilever to Clean Up Mercury Waste in India Goes Viral, Soma Oil & Gas Faces UK Criminal Investigation for Somalia Deals

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Music Video Asking Unilever to Clean Up Mercury Waste in India Goes Viral
by Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch Blog
August 7th, 2015

A music video asking Unilever, an Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant, to clean up mercury waste from their former Indian factory notched up two million views in less than a week, prompting a reply from the company CEO.

See http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=16048

Soma Oil & Gas Faces UK Criminal Investigation for Somalia Deals
Richard Smallteacher
August 5th, 2015

British regulators are investigating Soma Oil & Gas, a UK-based company, for allegedly paying bribes to the Somali government in exchange for exploration rights. Under scrutiny is the payment of $580,000 for “capacity building arrangements” at the Ministry of Petroleum in Mogadishu, according to Financial Times sources.

See http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=16049

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