04-27-07 by Dugan Here’s news that screams “Brought To You By Big Oil” Well-reported stories from the AP and USA Today report a sharp oil price jump after news of a foiled Al Qaeda…
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Will profs learn from students?
4-26-07 by Simpson UC Berkeley’s faculty members could learn something from their students. Unlike the faculty senate’s toothless compromise resolution about the proposed $500 million deal with oil giant BP that could transform the campus…
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BP Losses Offset By West Profits
NEWS RELEASE April 24, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, (310) 392-0522 ext. 305, cell: (213) 280-0175, or Jamie Court, ext. 327 ‘Bumbling Petroleum’ (BP) Manages to Halt Record Profit Runs; Losses Elsewhere Offset by High Gasoline…
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Deal pushed at ‘warp speed’
Simpson4-23-2007 Why has UC Berkeley’s administration so vigorously pushed the $500 million deal with BP to fund a research institute? Prof. Anne Wagner offered an explanation to her colleagues last week. She is one of…
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Big Week for Big Oil
This is 1st quarter profit week for Big Oil. BP Tuesday, Conoco Wednesday, Exxon Thursday and Chevron Friday (Shell not until next week). Yet another record? We’ll be writing about it.
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Dumping the Guzzler
04-21-07 by dugan Happy Earth Day, OilWatchdoggers. To celebrate, the hubby and I dumped the 13-year-old guzzler and bought a Prius. OK, we’re way behind blogger Simpson, who’s been driving a sleeker, more efficient…
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It’s academic…
Simpson4-19-2007 Meeting in a special session, UC Berkeley’s faculty senate struggled with parliamentary procedures to reject resolutions that would have asked Chancellor Robert Birgeneau to delay signing a $500 million deal with oil giant…
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Don’t Turn Berkeley Into “UCBP”
NEWS RELEASE: April 19, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, (310)-392-0522, ext. 317, or cell: (310)-292-1902, or Jamie Court, (310)-392-0522, ext. 327 Don’t Let Big Oil Turn Cal Berkeley Into "UCBP," Consumers and Professor Warn Berkeley,…
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Lie Down With Despots…
04-17-07 by dugan BP put down its marker on Iraqi oil today, with a senior exec saying "I think we can help in all areas: enhanced oil recovery from existing fields, in discovered and not…
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Chevron ‘Ready to Engage’ E85?
04-16-07 by dugan …Well, ready enough that two of its mid-level managers phoned OilWatchdog and said the company “recognizes the tide of interest” in renewable fuels and wants gas station operators to “engage with us.”…
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Chevron’s Big Bet On Iraqi Oil
04-15-07 by dugan (05-08-07 UPDATE: The summit has been moved to Dubai, probably for security and better-hotels reasons. And BP, Shell and Conoco have signed on as lesser–read "less expensive" sponsors) The news popped two…
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Who to believe?
By Simpson4-15-2007 Proponents of the plan to have BP fund an alternate energy research institute at UC Berkeley squared off in the San Francisco Chronicle opinion pages against those who think the university is selling…
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Humbled? Don’t take the money
By Simpson4-12-2007 It’s not just consumers who are outraged by Big Oil CEO compensation. Disgruntled BP shareholders said a planned payment of an estimated £72 million — $124.5 million — to outgoing chief executive John…