Chris Borrowman, meet Yuanhui Zhang. Chris is a pork producer in Illinois and he has a lagoon in his backyard the size of about 23 swimming pools that is filled with pig crap. Yuanhui is a professor at the University of Illinois that has developed a new process to turn pig manure into oil. This … Read More
Day: August 14, 2006
BP Spins Alaska Story
Public relations trade magazine, PR Week has reported that BP has “more than doubled the number of external communications people” working in its Anchorage office due to its current problems in Alaska. According to PR Week, “the company’s image is taking a battering because advocacy groups are wondering how such an ‘eco-friendly’ company let something … Read More
BP: Only Itself to Blame For Alaskan Fiasco
I am back from holiday, so lets go straight back to BP. The news that BP had to shut over half of its vast Prudhoe Bay operations because of pipeline corrosion has made headlines across the globe. It has also sent the price of oil nearly $2 dollars a barrel upwards. As BP apologized for … Read More