Posts in April 2010
“What the hell did we do to deserve this?”
“What the hell did we do to deserve this?” is the question, baby-faced BP CEO Tony Hayward apparently asked his stunned fellow BP executives as they saw billions wiped off the company’s share price due to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The reason for the shareholder panic is that much more oil is escaping…
Continue reading ‘“What the hell did we do to deserve this?”’.Obama’s Foolish Move
Less than a month ago, Barack Obama told us he wants to open 167 million acres of America’s continental shelf to oil drilling. At the time, he promised the nation that we have the technology to do this in a safe, clean and environmentally sound manner. Now, before the “April Fool” window has closed, we…
Continue reading ‘Obama’s Foolish Move’.BP spill: “Burn Baby Burn” is all they have
The latest estimates from BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are that the amount of oil escaping from the sunken rig is much worse than previously thought. Yesterday the estimates were 1,000 barrels a day. Today that has been revised to 5,000 after a new leak was discovered.
BP’s “Silent Running” Slips Up Over Slick
In BP’s magazine last year a senior company executive bragged that the company was focussed on “operational excellence” and “silent running”. “Silent Running” was a new concept within the global oil giant. The final years of Lord Browne’s reign were plagued by the Texas fire in 2005 when 15 people died and by a notorious…
Continue reading ‘BP’s “Silent Running” Slips Up Over Slick’.Chevron in the Dock Again
Big Oil company Chevron may have hoped that its legal troubles as far as Nigeria were over. However, in a great victory for human rights campaigners, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has fixed June 14, 2010 to open appeal hearings in the case.
Avatar director: Tar sands Are “Black Eye” to Canada
When faced with a PR battle, one of the fossil fuel industry’s tactics is to set up a supposed grass-roots organisation or “Astroturf” organisation. So Citizens for the Environment had no citizens in it – it was just a front for big oil and other polluting industries. The Global Climate Coalition was also no such…
Continue reading ‘Avatar director: Tar sands Are “Black Eye” to Canada’.If one volcano can do this, what will peak oil do?
To anyone in North America, the Icelandic volcano fiasco must seem something of a distant story, unless you are trying to fly to Europe right now, when it will be a living hell. It is a hell being experienced by hundreds of thousands of people stuck abroad who are unable to get home from their…
Continue reading ‘If one volcano can do this, what will peak oil do?’.Ecuador accuses oil firms of “abusing” country
It is the latest twist in the on-going soap opera of Ecuadorian oil. You have the Indigenous Indians fighting in the courts in a multi-billion battle against Texaco’s lethal toxic legacy – a battle that has been going on for decades. But now the tiny Latin American country is threatening to follow its powerful neighbour,…
Continue reading ‘Ecuador accuses oil firms of “abusing” country’.When two worlds collide – the chardonnay wins
If you have never been to an oil company AGM it is worth going to watch two parallel words colliding for a few hours. On the one side are the protestors arguing passionately for the company to listen to how their activities are destroying someone’s homeland or are polluting the earth. Up on the top…
Continue reading ‘When two worlds collide – the chardonnay wins’.Tar Sands Dominates BP’s AGM
Oil Giant BP faces a barrage of criticism from investors at today’s AGM at the Excel Centre in London Docklands over the environmental cost of its controversial tar sands project in Canada. BP’s showcase presentation to investors and shareholders is being overshadowed by a resolution tabled by over 140 shareholders asking the oil firm to…
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