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...
For those who may not have heard yet, there's a huge and historic battle brewing in California. Proposition 23, if passed would suspend the California Global Warming Act of 2006 (AB 32) which requires that greenhouse gas emissions in the...
We know that the Koch brothers fund climate change deniers. But now a great new report by Climate Action Network Europe (CAN-E) has analysed new data to track where dirty money is going in American politics. They have found nearly...
To mark the 15th Anniversary of the execution of Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, we are exposing the public relations tactics that Shell employed to counter criticism of its operations in the country. The evidence is contained in documents collected for...
In a date that seems to pander to the needs of the investors and politicians rather than the engineers, BP has set a deadline of 27 July to cap the leaking Macondo well. According to the Wall Street Journal the...
The Washington Post leads this morning on how the critical players in the Gulf disaster are all hiring public relations consultants like they are going out of fashion to try and repair their battered and bruised images. BP, according to...
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....
Tens of millions of people watched the glittering closing ceremony last night as the Winter Olympics drew to a close in Vancouver. To cap off the games, Canada was celebrating a record number of gold medals and a prized win...
In the course of the past month, BP tripled the number of tar sands projects it’s developing, from one to three. While it rocked the tar sands industry back in December 2007, with its announcement of a joint venture with...
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...
