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BP’s “Sunken Cities” Exhibition is “Beyond Parody”

Oh dear, BP. Last week was a lesson in how corporate sponsorship of the arts backfires badly.

How “Bullying” BP is Corrupting Iconic Arts Institutions

We have known for years that Big Oil companies like BP sponsor iconic arts institutions in the UK as a way of greenwashing their image and helping the company with its “social licence to operate”.

ExxonMobil’s PR Chief Gives Empty Retort to Oil Change

Last week we exposed ExxonMobil’s Outlook for Energy as a corporate fantasy rather than a forecast. ExxonMobil's head of public affairs called our work ill-informed and "odious" but chose not to answer our arguments...

Big Oil’s Front Groups Exposed

It has often been called the heart of public relations: but the third party technique is simple – it is putting your words in someone else’s mouth.

Big Coal’s “Fake” Social Media Campaign

As more and more of us search for news and information online, PR companies and their clients are increasingly trying to manipulate what you read.

“I was spied on by BP”

I discovered recently that I was being spied on by BP.

RBS Wriggles Over Tar Sand Investments

Has RBS stopped financing the tar sands?

ALEC and Heartland Try to Kill Renewables

Stealth lobby group ALEC is teaming up with our old-friends, the climate denial-machine, the Heartland Institute to write laws that repeal state-level renewable energy targets.

“A World of Infinite Gas”

So great is the fracking boom in the US that it has created a “world of infinite gas” according to Tony Hayward, the disgraced ex-boss of BP.