You Can Hide, But You Can’t Run

May 12, 2010By Mark FloegelBlog Post

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 … Read More

Message from a Blow-out: Don’t Blame Me

May 12, 2010By Andy RowellBlog Post

Predictable and cynical. Two words used by the New York Times in its editorial today to describe the behaviour of Big Oil at a Senate hearing yesterday. The three senior executives from BP, Halliburton and Transocean – predictably and cynically – tried to blame each other for the spill, to the point that the “hearings … Read More

Voters demand clean energy as Big Oil squabbles over spill

May 11, 2010By Andy RowellBlog Post

New research by the influential pollster Joel Benenson, who was the key strategist for Barack Obama during the 2008 election, shows that in the aftermath of the Gulf oil disaster, American voters “overwhelming support a comprehensive clean energy bill.” Nearly two thirds of Americans – some 61% of voters – now support a bill “that … Read More

Putting Tar Sands in Your Tank …

May 10, 2010By Andy RowellBlog Post 1 Comment

Disaster One. New estimates put the amount of oil per day pouring into the Gulf of Mexico at one million gallons a day. If this is so, BP’s disaster may have spilt more oil than the Exxon Valdez, when at least eleven million gallons poured from the stricken tanker. Disaster Two. There is another ecological … Read More

The Gulf of Oil

May 6, 2010By Mark FloegelBlog Post 7 Comments

Venice, LA – I’m down at the oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico or what for now is the Gulf of Mexico.  Rick Steiner, a marine conservationist and oil spill expert flew over the gulf Wednesday morning and said, “It’s not the Gulf of Mexico any more. It’s the gulf of oil.” Rick’s been … Read More

Tar Sands Lobby Tries to Exploit Spill

May 5, 2010By Andy RowellBlog Post

I was talking to a colleague who works on oil issues yesterday about the Gulf of Mexico spill. As we chewed over the unfolding disaster, he said “the trouble is that the spill might make Canada’s tar sands more attractive for American politicians.” Right on cue, hours later another colleague sent an article from the … Read More

BP: “This was not our accident”

May 4, 2010By Andy RowellBlog Post 14 Comments

In the middle of potentially America’s worst environmental disaster, BP is attempting to squarely shift the blame for the Deepwater Horizon disaster from itself to Transocean. As BP’s CEO Tony Hayward prepares to meet key Congressmen in Washington today, you can see part of BP‘s PR strategy in play with the simple message: We are … Read More

Lessons of the Gulf

May 3, 2010By Steve KretzmannBlog Post, Separate Oil and State

BP’s Drilling Disaster is quickly unfolding to become one of the world’s worst ever environmental catastrophes. Credible sources already are saying that the volume of oil gushing into the Gulf exceeds the Exxon Valdez, and shockingly, there is no end in sight. As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, as fisherman watch … Read More