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Regents Must Review UC-BP Deal
NEWS RELEASE October 31, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, 310-392-0522, x317, or cell: 310-292-1902 Consumer Advocates Insist UC Regents Review $500 Million "UC-BP" Deal; Demand Proposed Contract Terms Be Made Public Santa Monica, CA — The University of California Board of Regents must approve any contract with BP creating the controversial Energy Biosciences Institute at [...]
Continue reading...UC-BP About to Open
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
10-30-07 by simpson The contract covering the $500 million deal for BP to fund the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) at UC Berkeley is about to be signed. Though the project was announced last February, negotiators have taken longer than expected to reach a contract. Signing is expected next week. According to a report in the [...]
Continue reading...Students Fight to Thwart UC-BP
Thursday, October 4, 2007
10-04-07 by simpson I supplied the T-shirts and The Student Campaign to Stop BP at Berkeley offered up a demonstration to drive home the potential damage of Big Oil U on one of the nation’s premier research universities. About 200 people — mostly students – protested the $500 million BP deal that would create [...]
Continue reading...Students Warn About “UC-BP”
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Rally, T-shirts Warn Cal Could Become “UC-BP”; $500 Million BP Deal Near Completion As Big Oil Pumps Money Into Colleges Berkeley, CA — Oil giant BP must not be allowed to use a $500 million research deal to turn Cal Berkeley into “UC-BP,” the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) warned today as it [...]
Continue reading...Chevron, Can You Spare a Dime?
Friday, September 28, 2007
09-28-07 by dugan Greenpeace, eat your heart out. A day after announcing a $15 billion stock buyback, Chevron today announces a new $15-million ad campaign to boost its sorry corporate image. $15 million is only .1% of the stock buyback, but it’s still an unimaginable media budget for Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Consumers Union or [...]
Continue reading...BP Keeps on Bumbling
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
09-26-07 by dugan Lots of folks have sent along a Financial Times report that BP’s CEO sees its third-quarter performance as "dreadful." (Here’s a later recap from the Guardian, with updates). BP CEO Tony Hayward tried to blame some of the bad outlook on lower refining profits, but other analysts say in a CNN [...]
Continue reading...“Boston Legal” Pillories Big Oil U
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
NEWS RELEASE September 26, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, (310) 392-0522, ext. 317, or (310) 292-1902, cell Big Oil U Pilloried On "Boston Legal" Season Premiere; $500 Million BP Deal at Berkeley Near Completion; Oil Dollars Flow to Colleges Across the USA Santa Monica, CA — ABC’s popular TV show "Boston Legal" took its plot [...]
Continue reading...“Boston Legal” Focuses on Big Oil U
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
9-26-04 by simpson ABC’s Boston Legal likes to base its plots on real life and the plot of last night’s season premier was drawn from Big Oil U campuses at Stanford University and UC Berkeley. I didn’t watch the show, but this e-mail from my colleague Doug Heller outlines the plot. The show pretty [...]
Continue reading...BP Funds Another Campus
Monday, September 10, 2007
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 is one the fastest growing community colleges in New Mexico. A key to the program is the development Internet-based computer [...]
Continue reading...Fall semester delayed at “UC BP”
Thursday, August 30, 2007
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 Berkeley. As you’ll recall, BP announced with great fanfare last February a plan to fund a $500 million alternative energy [...]
Continue reading...Will Dynes’ Legacy = UCBP?
Monday, August 13, 2007
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. Dynes’ legacy as University of California President cannot be allowed to be the commercialization of the nation’s finest public university [...]
Continue reading...Big Oil U Offers New Major
Monday, July 9, 2007
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, it’s back to the "classics" — getting oil. In an announcement today Chevron said it has formed a research alliance [...]
Continue reading...“Sticks And Stones…”
Monday, June 25, 2007
06-25-07 by Simpson Now I’m being compared to Joe McCarthy and Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels for pointing out that when a university takes Big Oil money it hurts the credibility of research done there. Big Oil companies are pumping money into research projects at universities across the country, a trend we’ve dubbed “Big Oil U.” [...]
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