When the Deepwater disaster occurred in the Gulf of Mexico four months ago, many commentators argued that this was a “game changer” that would change the energy debate forever.
Politicians and the public would realise that the ecological and social cost of offshore drilling was becoming unacceptable, the thinking went.
If you morph the lessons of the [...]

If a tobacco company gave the World Health Organisation a $10 million grant to examine the health effects of smoking, health campaigners would be outraged.  They would also treat the results with great suspicion.
And the fact that Shell gave UNEP $10 million dollars to examine the cause of oil spills in Ogoni means that – [...]

Firstly pollution in Brazil:
At the end of last week a Brazilian court fined the local units of Shell  and BASF a total of BRL1.1 billion ($654 million) in compensation and medical costs to workers who were harmed by contamination at a chemicals plant in Paulinia, Sao Paulo.
The Paulinia unit was built by Shell in the [...]

First Greenpeace ran a competition to help BP redesign its logo, and now the Washington Post is running a competition for the public to suggest slogans to help BP repair its battered image.
The competition is running until tomorrow noon, if anyone wants to have a go. So far the entries are pretty predictable:
BP=Best Poison
BP=Better Pollution
BP…Gas [...]

BP’s spill does pose threats to human health and seafood safety, according to a new study published by the peer-reviewed scientific Journal of the American Medical Association.
The report comes days after President Obama swam in the Gulf at Panama City Beach and made of point of eating seafood for the cameras.
“Beaches all along the Gulf [...]