Who would be a BP shareholder? Last week the company's shares surged on the fact that the National Commission into the Deepwater disaster had not provided clear evidence of BP’s “gross negligence” into the spill. It could have been construed...
Earlier this month, I blogged how the tar sands lobby was trying to exploit BP’s Gulf of Mexico spill. Well the pro-tar sands argument has once again been blown out of the water by a report from the social investment...
Five years ago, I co-authored a book called “The Next Gulf- London, Washington and Oil Conflict in Nigeria”, that - as the title suggested - looked at the interlinked nature of oil politics from America, the UK and West Africa....
Oil Giant BP faces a barrage of criticism from investors at today's AGM at the Excel Centre in London Docklands over the environmental cost of its controversial tar sands project in Canada. BP’s showcase presentation to investors and shareholders is...
The BP spill on the North Slope is still reverberating - here is a post to the "safepipelines" discussion group: "You know I get asked all the time variations of; 'what do you expect'. What do you expect us to...
BP is on course this year to announce the largest profits ever by a British company, with annual profits of over $21bn (£12bn). This is despite the company taking a billion dollar hit over the fallout from Hurricane Katrina. The...
Our response to the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 moving out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
This analysis provides the Biden administration with overwhelming legal, economic, and environmental justification to stop the unchecked expansion of LNG exports.
Congo's vital rainforest and peatlands are to face destruction from 52 new oil blocks. This plunder is likely to fuel conflict and displacement, enriching Big Oil Companies and complicit leaders. The DRC cannot be a sacrifice zone. We need to...
Trump's meeting with oil executives is meant to ensure the future of Venezuela is being shaped in a way that maximizes Big Oil profits and his own power.
