A leaked email has revealed that BP faces criminal investigation into the huge 270,000 gallon oil spill the company caused in Alaska in March. Although BP received the subpoena in April from a Grand Jury, it has only now become...
A Norwegian independent energy company - DNO- plans to produce oil in Iraqi Kurdistan early next year after successful initial drilling. If further tests are also positive, it could lead to the first barrels produced by a foreign oil operator...
Now – you might start thinking we have it in for BP, especially in the Arctic region. No, this is not true. The company seems to be doing enough damage to its corporate reputation and the environment without us. But...
Good article by George Monbiot in today's Guardian, attacking Shell and BP’s for greenwashing and spinning the truth. He talks about the BP spill in Alaska that we have been blogging about requently on the site. “For a company that...
BP and Exxon both make top ten worst companies in 2005, according to Multinational Monitor. BP "In November 2005, BP said that it expects to spend as much as $8 billion in alternative-energy projects, including solar, wind, hydrogen and carbon-abatement...
The World Bank has unveiled a new project to promote the use of clean energy in developing countries, where it argues that up to 40 billion dollars a year is needed to cover the costs of adapting to projected climate...
There are apparently three things we can be sure of in life: death, taxes, and that when the oil industry gets in trouble, environmentalists will get blamed and more money will be thrown at Big Oil. Yesterday, rather than addressing...
As oil-price fever gripped Congress this week, both political parties have said they are ready to revoke oil and gas incentives that were passed as recently as eight months ago. Top Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee have...
Republicans in the Senate yesterday dropped their proposals to tax the oil industry, just days after coming up with the idea - and the reason for doing so was: hmmm, the oil industry and business leaders did not like it....
Really interesting article in Business Week entitled “Why You Should Worry About Big Oil”. Big Oil, says the article, has big problems. One of the main problems is finding enough oil. With soaring worldwide demand, we are consuming oil at...
