11-29-07 by simpson BP pleaded guilty today to failing to prevent a huge spill in America’s largest oil field on Alaska’s North Slope. Bumbling Petroleum has agreed to a fine of $20 million for one…
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More Chevron Downside
11-28-07 by dugan Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez’s campaign to win Latin American hearts and minds has developed a new twist that should set hearts aflutter (not in a good way) at Chevron’s investor…
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No Room for Denial
11-17-07 by dugan Some disasters seem just too enormous to grasp. Every version of the U.N. climate change report is more dire and more certain about the effects of climate change. The final…
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Next: Oil Tanker Meth Labs?
10-30-07 by dugan If you’d like to run a small meth lab on the open seas, away from national laws, ExxonMobil may have a high-paying job for you! That’s a reasonable intrpretation of…
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BP Moves ‘Beyond Problems’
10-29-07 by Simpson First BP tried to position itself as Beyond Petroleum, though Bumbling Petroleum is more accurate. Now with cold cash — just pocket change to the oil giant — BP is trying to…
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Exxon’s Good Supply of Lawyers
08-23-07 by dugan ExxonMobil is quick to raise gasoline prices whenever "supplies are short." But its ability to go slow is phenomenal when it comes to big lawsuits. Exxon’s army of lawyers has spent more…
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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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Sting Of Toxic Tones
If you watched the primetime broadcast of the Live Earth concerts last Saturday night, you may have caught the segment where Sting and his wife Trudie Styler told the 2 billion plus in the world-wide…
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NY Judge KOs Chevron
6-28-07 by Court Chevron failed to convince a US District Court judge in New York that the case against the company for contaminating the Amazon should be sujbect to arbitration and removed from Ecuador’s justice…
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Big Oil vs. OilWatchdog
06-04-07 by dugan It’s the most exciting debate since… Paris Hilton’s Prison Sentence? Read me taking on Tom Tanton of the Exxon-funded Institute for Energy Research, in the LA Times’ Opinion section “Dust-Up" online. We…
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Listen To Your Workers
By Simpson05-10-07 ConocoPhillips refinery workers showed up at the Big Oil company’s annual meeting and warned that budget cuts are compromising plant safety. It’s nothing new in the industry. Remember the worst industrial disaster in…
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Attack Of The Chevron Attorneys
5-2-07 by Court Chevron’s attorneys are at it again, this time breathing down the necks of editors at the San Francisco Chronicle over my oped last week, "Is Chevron Going Green?" I got the call…
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BP Chief Quits; Admits Lies
By Simpson5-01-07 Lord John Browne, the once high-flying executive who seemingly could do no wrong, resigned abruptly after admitting he lied to a court about how he had met his former gay companion. Browne had…