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• 75 Per Cent of Oil Lobbyists Worked for Government

  Andy Rowell

  Jul22

  Talking to people about the Deepwater Horizon, often a response has been “how can something like that happen in the US.” Exactly that question is being forensically picked over by lawyers and Congressional investigators and the answers are increasingly looking unpalatable. But one thing for sure it could not happen without the raw power of…
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• “A major serial environmental criminal” who hides the evidence

  Andy Rowell

  Jun28

  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…
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• “A Global Laughing Stock”

  Andy Rowell

  Jun21

  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…
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• It’s Time for the Truth, Tony

  Andy Rowell

  Jun17

  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….
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• A Vital Week for BP – Will it Sink or Swim?

  Andy Rowell

  Jun14

  So the viral joke on the internet is that whether it be oil spills or footballs – England can’t contain either. After England goalie Robert Green’s disastrous mistake against the US on Saturday night at the World Cup – can England get anything right? For  BP there have been many weeks that have ebbed and…
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• BP: Brand Pollution

  Andy Rowell

  Jun09

  The general consensus – in the mainstream media and blogosphere – is that Tony Hayward is now toast. He will probably survives long enough to give evidence to Congress next week, but more and more people are betting he will be gone by Xmas. Obama banged another nail in Hayward’s coffin yesterday when he said…
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• BP Manipulates the Web

  Andy Rowell

  Jun08

  The online public relations battle is hotting up. BP may be losing the twitter war but is doing its damndest to make sure it won’t lose the Google war. According to ABC News, BP has purchased several phrases on search engines such as Google and Yahoo so that online users get directed to the company’s…
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• BP Losing Twitter War

  Andy Rowell

  Jun07

  BP has a problem. No its not the tens of millions of gallons of crude oil floating or submerged in the Gulf of Mexico. No its not the countless wildlife or fish or shrimps dying across the Gulf. No its not the thousands of livelihoods destroyed by the spill No its not the billions wiped…
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• Revealed: BP’s PR Company’s Links to Number 10

  Andy Rowell

  Jun04

  BP’s spin machine kicked up another gear yesterday as the company started airing adverts on American television showing the company’s embattled Tony Hayward apologising to those affected by the spill. “We will get this done. We will get this right,” says  a contrite looking Haywood at the end. The adverts come on a crucial day…
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• You Can Hide, But You Can’t Run

  Mark Floegel

  May12

  Now that BP’s jury-rigged contraption to contain its massive Gulf of Mexico oil spew has failed, the company’s only resort is to continue pumping massive amounts of dispersant into the water near the wellhead, in an attempt to – what exactly? The dispersant goes by the trade name “Corexit.”  It’s supposed to be a pun…
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