100 Days of Olympic Greenwashing

April 18, 2012By Andy RowellBlog Post, Featured

Organisers of the London Olympics are celebrating 100 days to go until the start of what they have called “the Greenest Games Ever”. As the real countdown to the games begins, the main sponsors of the games will be exploiting their association with the Olympics to the maximum. Take BP – Its brand is all … Read More

A Culture Beyond Oil

November 29, 2011By Andy RowellBlog Post, Featured 1 Comment

“There is no money that is completely pure”, so says Nicholas Serota, the Director of the Tate gallery in London that is under fire once again for taking oil money from BP and Shell. Serota is right in many ways, there is no such thing as clean money but some funding is dirtier than others. … Read More

Bob Dudley: “All Mouth, No Trousers”

November 8, 2011By Andy RowellBlog Post, Featured

BP seems incapable of shrugging off the curse of the Deepwater Horizon at the moment, as the company jolts from one crisis to another. A quick flick at this morning’s headlines do not make great reading for CEO Bob Dudley, after the acrimonious collapse of BP’s $7.1 billion deal to sell a majority stake in … Read More

BP: Reprieved from Death Row

October 17, 2011By Andy RowellBlog Post, Featured

It’s been a good few days for BP. The company’s share price surged 5.1 per cent this morning after it was announced that Anadarko Petroleum will pay $4 billion to settle all claims for last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The US-based Anadarko Petroleum was a part-leaseholder of ill-fated Macondo well. As part of … Read More

Comeback Kid Hayward Severs Final Link With BP

September 12, 2011By Andy RowellBlog Post, Featured

Finally after 29 years, Tony Hayward, the former chief executive of BP, will sever all his ties with the oil giant. Although he resigned from being Chief Executive last year in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Hayward has remained on board of its Russian joint venture, TNK-BP. But it has announced that he … Read More