Posts in June 2010
BP: Ignoring the Lessons from History
When BP’s leak is finally plugged and the forensic examination begins into the disastrous events leading up to the spill, it should also examine the catastrophic events since the spill: and one of those will be the use of dispersants. The use of dispersants has been heavily criticised on this blog and well as by…
Continue reading ‘BP: Ignoring the Lessons from History’.BP’s Long Term Business Strategy in Chaos..
A BP presentation to investors from March 2010 – a month before Deepwater – is doing the rounds on the net after being picked up by Propublica. In fact the presentation to analysts is on BP’s own website. The presentation shows how so much has changed for BP since the disaster – and if nothing…
Continue reading ‘BP’s Long Term Business Strategy in Chaos..’.“A major serial environmental criminal” who hides the evidence
We all know that criminals like to cover their tracks. And BP is no different. On Saturday, the Anchorage Daily News – a paper that has battled BP in Alaska for a number of years a recently retired federal attorney who spent years dogging BP Exploration (Alaska). Jeanne Pascal, who worked 18 years as a…
Continue reading ‘“A major serial environmental criminal” who hides the evidence’.Clean tar sands and safe deepwater drilling “more PR than reality.”
The industry’s PR response from Deepwater is shaping up nicely. This is the industry message: We will give you improved safety and you give us resumed drilling. The Gulf of Mexico represents energy security and jobs for the boys to boot. The tar sands of Canada also represent energy security, so if you let us…
Continue reading ‘Clean tar sands and safe deepwater drilling “more PR than reality.”’.Industry Steps Up Pro-Offshore Drilling Campaign
To pardon the pun, but the tide is turning. Soon everything could be back to normal. There is an aggressive lobbying campaign by the oil industry to overturn Obama’s offshore drilling moratorium, despite the fact that opposition of offshore drilling continues to rise. Part of the industry campaign is to argue that support for offshore…
Continue reading ‘Industry Steps Up Pro-Offshore Drilling Campaign’.“A Global Laughing Stock”
The Washington Post leads this morning on how the critical players in the Gulf disaster are all hiring public relations consultants like they are going out of fashion to try and repair their battered and bruised images. BP, according to the paper, “has assembled a formidable team of Democrats for its Washington lobbying and public-relations…
Continue reading ‘“A Global Laughing Stock”’.From Humpty Dumpty, to Mr Bean to Mr Has-Been..
Did we get any real answers from Tony Hayward yesterday when he appeared before an influential Congressional cmmittee? No Did we get the truth from Hayward, currently depicted as the most hated man in America? No All we got from Tony Hayward was stone-walling, evasion and a deadpan panto of going through the motions.
Congress continues to support oil industry
Twice in the last several days we’ve been reminded of the uphill struggle we face in the US to separate oil and state. First, on Tuesday, the US Senate actually defeated a proposal that would have eliminated some oil industry subsidies. Then, earlier today, Representative Joe Barton actually apologized to BP’s Tony Hayward for establishing…
Continue reading ‘Congress continues to support oil industry’.It’s Time for the Truth, Tony
Yesterday was yet another gaffe from BP, but thankfully it was not yet another one from the company’s CEO Tony Hayward. This time it was the company’s chairman who was speaking to the media for the first time. As he left the White House, BP’s chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said: “We care about the small people….
Continue reading ‘It’s Time for the Truth, Tony’.Big Oil Blames BP, Just Don’t Mention the Walruses….
Is this what the beginning of the end of the oil age looks like? Millions of gallons of oil continue to pour out across the Gulf, devastating wildlife and countless livelihoods, from tourism to fishermen. Thousands of people are employed scooping, skimming, burning and mopping up oil in a largely fruitless gesture.
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