It is a damning document that may well decide Tony Hayward’s fate. It will certainly give him sleepless nights before his Congressional appearance on Thursday. Remember what Hayward said a few weeks ago. “This was not our accident … This...
The general consensus – in the mainstream media and blogosphere - is that Tony Hayward is now toast. He will probably survives long enough to give evidence to Congress next week, but more and more people are betting he will...
The online public relations battle is hotting up. BP may be losing the twitter war but is doing its damndest to make sure it won’t lose the Google war. According to ABC News, BP has purchased several phrases on search...
One of the ongoing tragedies of the Exxon Valdez oil spill is that thousands of people who worked on the cleanup are sick, have gotten sick, and continue to die from inhaling the lethal cocktail of oil and dispersant. The...
For a month now people have been demanding that BP comes clean over the amount of oil being spilt in the Gulf of Mexico. For a month BP has resisted. For a month now, people have been saying that the...
When faced with a PR battle, one of the fossil fuel industry’s tactics is to set up a supposed grass-roots organisation or “Astroturf” organisation. So Citizens for the Environment had no citizens in it – it was just a front...
Has Obama morphed into President Bush? We were used to Bush strutting his stuff before glistening US military hard-ware, but Obama seems to have followed suit. In pictures reminiscent of Bush, yesterday Obama made an announcement in front of a...
Exxon has often been signalled out as the company doing the most to undermine the science of climate change. But this is no longer the case. There is a new secret climate sceptic funding machine and it is called Koch...
The start of an unusual mobilisation of pension fund members has been kicked off by the British organisation FairPensions to hold BP and Shell to account for their investment in the dirty Canadian tar sands. The idea is simple: individuals...
One year on and its not looking so good for Obama. How the political land-scape can change in a year.. The Democrats are in deep political shock this morning as a truck-driving lawyer, Scott Brown took the prized seat of...
