Posts in May 2010
Tar Sands Lobby Tries to Exploit Spill
I was talking to a colleague who works on oil issues yesterday about the Gulf of Mexico spill. As we chewed over the unfolding disaster, he said “the trouble is that the spill might make Canada’s tar sands more attractive for American politicians.” Right on cue, hours later another colleague sent an article from the…
Continue reading ‘Tar Sands Lobby Tries to Exploit Spill’.BP: “This was not our accident”
In the middle of potentially America’s worst environmental disaster, BP is attempting to squarely shift the blame for the Deepwater Horizon disaster from itself to Transocean. As BP’s CEO Tony Hayward prepares to meet key Congressmen in Washington today, you can see part of BP‘s PR strategy in play with the simple message: We are…
Continue reading ‘BP: “This was not our accident”’.Lessons of the Gulf
BP’s Drilling Disaster is quickly unfolding to become one of the world’s worst ever environmental catastrophes. Credible sources already are saying that the volume of oil gushing into the Gulf exceeds the Exxon Valdez, and shockingly, there is no end in sight. As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, as fisherman watch…
Continue reading ‘Lessons of the Gulf’.For this, we are risking our coasts
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