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100 Days That Changed the Industry .. Or Did it?

So we are 100 days into this disaster and what has changed? Well we have a new CEO of BP. The straight talking American Bob Dudley argues that the Gulf of Mexico spill has been "wake-up call not only for...

Scientists Attack White House Spin

The fall-out continues from the US government report saying that 75 per cent of the spilled oil from BP's macondo well has gone. Scientists say it is “just not true” that the vast majority of oil from the BP spill...

From Brazil to Nigeria, Shell Fights Pollution Allegations

Firstly pollution in Brazil: At the end of last week a Brazilian court fined the local units of Shell  and BASF a total of BRL1.1 billion ($654 million) in compensation and medical costs to workers who were harmed by contamination...

Koch brothers fund fight against California climate law

Earlier this year Greenpeace published an excellent report showing that the secretive and arch conservative billionaire Koch brothers were the main funders of leading right wing climate sceptic organisations. Since then it has emerged that Koch brothers are bank-rolling the...

“Brazil is the future for the oil industry”..

Are investors put off by the risks of ultra deepwater drilling after the Deepwater Horizon disaster? If the frenzy down in Brazil is anything to go by – the answer is a staggering no. Brazil’s national oil company, Petrobras, has...

Lessons of the Gulf

BP’s Drilling Disaster is quickly unfolding to become one of the world’s worst ever environmental catastrophes. Credible sources already are saying that the volume of oil gushing into the Gulf exceeds the Exxon Valdez, and shockingly, there is no end...

BP: “This was not our accident”

In the middle of potentially America’s worst environmental disaster, BP is attempting to squarely shift the blame for the Deepwater Horizon disaster from itself to Transocean. As BP’s CEO Tony Hayward prepares to meet key Congressmen in Washington today, you...

Tar Sands Lobby Tries to Exploit Spill

I was talking to a colleague who works on oil issues yesterday about the Gulf of Mexico spill. As we chewed over the unfolding disaster, he said “the trouble is that the spill might make Canada’s tar sands more attractive...