9-10-07 by simpson San Juan College School of Energy in Farmington, NM, has just announced it will receive $750,000 from BP over the next three years to train natural gas field technicians. San Juan College…
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Fall semester delayed at “UC BP”
08-30-07 by simpson Students have returned to college campuses across the country, but there apparently is a delay in the fall semester for Big Oil U’s largest extension campus at the University of California at…
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BP Got The Message
08-24-07 by simpson Bumbling Petroleum – BP – finally listened to the expressions of outrage about its plans to increase pollution pumped into Lake Michigan after it completes a $3.8 billion refurbishing of its Whiting,…
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Clueless Mary Nichols
08-20-07 by dugan When Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed former California Air Resources Board director Mary Nichols last month to head the same agency in his administration, reaction in the enviro world was mostly relief, tinged…
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Will Dynes’ Legacy = UCBP?
NEWS RELEASE: August 13, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, (310) 392-0522, ext. 317, or (310) 292-1902, cell Consumer Advocates Warn Dynes Legacy Must Not Be Commercialization of UC System Santa Monica, CA — Robert C….
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Invest Wisely, Don’t Pollute
08-01-07 by simpson BP – Bumbling Petroleum – is deservedly under fire for plans to dump more toxic ammonia and mercury into Lake Michigan and spew more pollutants into the air as part of a…
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Chevron Record Refinery Profit
NEWS RELEASE July 27, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522, ext. 305, or cell: 213-280-0175, or John Simpson, ext. 317 Chevron Record Profit Driven by Refining Profits Up 41% in US, 30% Overall, On Record Gasoline…
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You’re Big Oil’s Piggy Bank
07-26-07 by dugan Once Upon a Time, Big Oil made its big profits on drilling oil. Now the oil guys are pickpocketing motorists directly, racking up ever-larger profits on gasoline and diesel production. Exxon…
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BP’s Refining Shores Up Profit
NEWS RELEASE July 24, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522, ext. 305, or cell: 213-280-0175 BP’s 2nd Quarter Refining Windfall Shores Up Lower Profit Elsewhere; Rest of Big Oil Will Show Same Pattern Of More Money…
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BP Launches Alaskan PR Blitz
07-10-07 by Simpson Oil Giant BP is fighting back from its damaged image in Alaska last year resulting from a major oil spill caused by a lack of proper maintenance. The massive statewide PR campaign…
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Big Oil U Offers New Major
07-09-07 by Simpson Big Oil U is marching on, and the latest extension campus, The University of Texas at Austin funded with $5 million from Chevron, is offering a new "major". Instead of alternative energy,…
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Soon, the Monolith
07-5-07 by dugan Someone recently asked me why Shell sold its mega-profitable Southern California refinery to the refining company Tesoro. Umm, I dunno, was my brilliant reply. Today, there’s a blazingly obvious answer, but…
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First Venezuela, Then….
06-25-07 by dugan ExxonMobil and Conoco Philllips are playing a high-stakes game of chicken with Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez over his seizure of control in the companies’ Orinoco oilfields. The worst-case result could be the…