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BP Lies Down With Russia, Gets Up With Fleas

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

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BP Lies Down With Russia, Gets Up With Fleas

British oil giant BP would like us all to forget its record oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year, a deadly 2005 explosion at its Texas City oil refinery and a major Alaskan oil spill in between–all of them the result of a company that cared more about the bottom line than about [...]

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Chevron Oil Leak in Gulf of Mexico?

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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Chevron Oil Leak in Gulf of Mexico?

Hard to interpret the technical language in this early Reuters report, but not good that Chevron refused to comment. When the screwup is not an explosion in view of the world, it’s all too easy to delay, downplay and diminish what’s going on. Maybe it’ll turn out to be minimal. Or not. However, it’s all [...]

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