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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...

If only BP had stayed true to Beyond Petroleum….

“If BP had stayed true to its ‘Beyond Petroleum positioning, it is likely that a disaster of this magnitude would not have occurred.” So says the global brand consultancy, Interbrand, in its annual branding report that shows that BP has...

“Probably the most notorious branding crisis in memory”

First Greenpeace ran a competition to help BP redesign its logo, and now the Washington Post is running a competition for the public to suggest slogans to help BP repair its battered image. The competition is running until tomorrow noon,...

75 Per Cent of Oil Lobbyists Worked for Government

Talking to people about the Deepwater Horizon, often a response has been “how can something like that happen in the US.” Exactly that question is being forensically picked over by lawyers and Congressional investigators and the answers are increasingly looking...

BP: A Good Value for “Bargain Hunters”?

David Cameron’s government is now said to be preparing for the worst: that BP will collapse and be broken up. One way that could be avoided is if key investors buy large chunks of the stricken oil giant. But one...

From One Gulf to Another

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....

BP’s Long Term Business Strategy in Chaos..

A BP presentation to investors from March 2010 – a month before Deepwater – is doing the rounds on the net after being picked up by Propublica. In fact the presentation to analysts is on BP’s own website. The presentation...

Industry Steps Up Pro-Offshore Drilling Campaign

To pardon the pun, but the tide is turning. Soon everything could be back to normal. There is an aggressive lobbying campaign by the oil industry to overturn Obama’s offshore drilling moratorium, despite the fact that opposition of offshore drilling...