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BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill – A Drop in the Bucket?
As BP’s Deepwater Horizon continues to exceed the company’s efforts to control it, theĀ arrogance and irresponsibility ofĀ the oil major’s chief executive, Tony Hayward and his team has never been as clear.Ā The consequences of BP’s mismanagement of the rig loom large, with estimated legal costs currently pegged at $60bn, and rising. Since the quantity of oil…
26 May 2010 ben -
“Summer of Tears” in Louisiana’s Bayous
FrontlineĀ waterkeepersĀ from Louisiana’s bayous have begun to tell of the devastation caused by the Macondo rupture in the sea floor. Tracy Kuhns, is theĀ Louisiana BayoukeeperĀ as well as running the Fishing Community Family Support Center. Her husband, Michael Roberts, is a fisherman and they live on Bayou Barataria where fishing is down for multiple reasons, one being…
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PLATFORM reveals Congo oil contracts that threaten resource wars and $10 billion rip-off
Tullow & British Embassy push disputed deal that could cut Congo’s revenues by $10 billion Confidential oil contracts held by UK companies Tullow and Heritage in the Democratic Republic of CongoĀ were leaked today, revealing the danger of economic rip-off and rights abuses in one of Africa’s most unstable countries. The Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) are…
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RBS AGM – the aftermath and the follow up
On the 28th of April, RBS held its Annual General Meeting in Edinburgh. Amidst the various motions relating to executive bonuses and a report back on the rocky road to recovery, two people raised concerns over the impact that RBSā investments were having on indigenous communities in very different parts of the world. Eriel Tchekwie…
19 May 2010 Kevin -
FT folds to Shell pressure before AGM
The Financial Times pulledĀ an Amnesty advertĀ challenging Shell’s pollution in the Niger Delta today. The full page ad was due to appear the morning of Shell’s AGM, to contrast the company’s $9.8 billion profit with its role in causing Nigerian communities to drink polluted water, eat contaminated fish, farm on spoiled land, and breathe in air…
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Cleaning up Museveni’s oil mess in Uganda
Taimour Lay envisions the potential for a new government in 2011 to renegotiate and restructure Uganda’s oil contracts with Tullow, Total and CNOOC: “Faced with the mess Museveni has bequeathed, the new president will find that the most important thing he ever does in power is to mobilise support for renegotiation of the oil agreements.…
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NEW REPORT: A Lake of Oil – Congo’s Controversial Contracts
Cross posted from the PLATFORM blog, here is a new report exposing how British oil companies are making huge profits from oil in the Congo. PLATFORM reveals Congo oil contracts that threaten resource wars and $10 billion rip-off Tullow & British Embassy push disputed deal that could cut Congo’s revenues by $10 billion Confidential oil…
17 May 2010 ben -
Skytruth challenges BP attempts to downplay spill
TinyĀ SkytruthĀ have been challenging BP’s estimates on how much crude is spilling out of the Macondo well into the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The organisation began analysing satellite & radar data soon after the Deepwater Horizon rig sank on April 22nd. BP initially claimed 1,000 barrels were spilling daily – after Skytruth pointed…
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Who to blame for the Gulf of Mexico spill?
As the leaking crude in the Gulf of Mexico chokes sperm whales, wipes out local fishing incomes and ruins tourist destinations, we’ll see continued debates over who is to blame. Obama is pointing at BP, insisting the company won’t be let off the hook. BP’s claiming that they weren’t really on the scene – Transocean…
10 May 2010 mika
