Nat King Coal

January 19, 2011By Andy RowellBlog Post, Featured

There is a new climate villain on the bloc. No its not a big oil company. But a 39 year old aristocrat banker from Britain. Nathaniel Rothschild, commonly known as “Nat” comes from a dynasty that is built on banking and wine. But Nat, “who has sometimes struggled to live up to the dynastic name”, … Read More

Bolshoi Petroleum is “environmental villain number one”

January 18, 2011By Andy RowellBlog Post, Featured

Ever since BP’s complex deal with Russian giant Rosneft was announced late last Friday, the list of critics to the deal has been growing. Take today’s leader in the Financial Times that calls the deal “risky, ethically vexing” and a “difficult transaction to spin.” I am surprised that a tabloid newspaper hasn’t spun the deal … Read More

EPA 1: Big Coal 0

January 14, 2011By Andy RowellBlog Post, Featured

So its game on. The EPA may be under attack from the Republicans, but its not rolling over and waiting to be stripped of its powers, without a fight. It is taking on Big Coal in the battle over mountain top removal. In what is being seen as an historic decision, the EPA has said … Read More

Free at Last?

January 13, 2011By Andy RowellBlog Post, Featured

For 300 long years Greenland has been part of Denmark. Denmark pumps $620 million into Greenland’s anaemic economy every year—more than $11,000 for each Greenlander. But this may be all about to change. In November 2008 its citizens voted overwhelmingly for increased independence from Denmark, which has officially ruled Greenland in some form since 1721. … Read More

Preventing Another “National Scandal”

January 11, 2011By Andy RowellBlog Post, Featured

We already know that the official Commission into the Deepwater disaster criticised BP for systematic management failures. But the Commission is set to criticise the Obama administration later today when the full and final report is launched at the National Press Club. It will argue that the Administration has not gone far enough to reform … Read More

A New Year: A New Spill

January 10, 2011By Andy RowellBlog Post, Featured

Who would be a BP shareholder? Last week the company’s shares surged on the fact that the National Commission into the Deepwater disaster had not provided clear evidence of BP’s “gross negligence” into the spill. It could have been construed that the New Year was the beginning of a new chapter in the company’s ragged … Read More