Posted by jamie — 28 July 2010 at 1:35pm
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Fishermen scoop oily sludge from the oil spill in Dalian, China (c) Arthur JD/Greenpeace
Arthur JD writes from Dalian in China...
I arrived in Dalian on the day of the funeral for firefighter Zhang Liang, who drowned beneath the thick crude when his crew jumped into the ocean - without safety gear - to attempt, in vain, to fix an underwater pipe. Our lead photographer, Jiang He, who by now has reached legendary status globally for capturing the final seconds of Zhang's life, continued to cover the very emotional moments of this oil spill disaster.
BP is being
prevented from selling fuel anywhere in central London this morning by Greenpeace activists who
have shut down every petrol station in the capital and put up signs which say:
"Closed. Moving beyond petroleum".
Later this
morning BP is expected to announce the appointment of Bob Dudley as the
company's new CEO. Greenpeace is urging Dudley, who once worked at BP's solar
and wind business (1), to take the company in a new direction after his
predecessor's obsession with high risk, environmentally reckless sources of
oil.
Posted by jamie — 27 July 2010 at 5:58am
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This morning, starting at 5.30am, teams of Greenpeace volunteers have
been shutting down BP stations across London.
We aim to close dozens down this morning.
The teams - each named after an animal
threatened by BP's reckless oil exploration - fanned out across
the capital in their electric and hybrid cars, going station to station and disabling
the pumps.
Why today? Because BP is expected to
announce later the appointment of Bob Dudley as the company's new head to
replace the gaffe-prone Tony Hayward, who led BP during the disastrous Gulf of
Mexico oil spill.
Posted by jamie — 14 July 2010 at 2:54pm
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Our colleagues in the US have been blogging regularly about the ongoing disaster in the gulf and Greenpeace's involvement in the response to the oil spill. Here, Mike Gaworecki sheds some light on the clean-up operation BP has been carrying out on its image.
There's no way to clean up an oil spill. We've seen this time and again - in Alaska's Prince William Sound, for instance, where oil from the Exxon Valdez spill is still having an impact on local ecosystems. Corporations like Exxon or BP that find themselves responsible for an oil spill - or, as was the case for Exxon and now is the case for BP, an oil disaster - are really left with only one option to handle the problem: public relations, damage control and fierce lobbying.
Greenpeace has launched a groundbreaking new
competition which invites designers and industry experts, as well as members of
the public, to redesign BP's logo to better reflect the company's operations
abroad.
Posted by jamie — 20 May 2010 at 10:54am
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A quick selection of images which have come in from BP HQ in St James's Square, where climbers have installed themselves to rebrand the company. Also included is the full page advert appearing in today's Guardian.
Climbers have scaled BP's London HQ and are
currently hoisting a large oil-soaked version of the company's bright green logo
above the entrance. Chief Executive Tony Hayward is expected to arrive
imminently to chair a board meeting which will focus on the oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico.
The Greenpeace volunteers arrived at 0530
before climbing onto a small metal balcony above the front door. They then
attached a specially designed giant flag to the company's flagpole bearing the
words "British Polluters" alongside the altered BP logo.
Posted by jossc — 4 January 2010 at 6:37pm
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It's been a long, difficult and wild ride at times, but an end to climate damaging carbon emissions from new coal power stations could be in sight at last. Finally, some politicians seem to have recognised that we can't cut our CO2 emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 AND keep
pumping the stuff out of our power plants - hooray!
Last December the government announced a new energy bill that explicitly recognises this reality. So far so good - but (as you'll be
shocked to discover) there's a problem. As yet the bill has no teeth - whilst it says that new power stations must be able to capture some of their emissions from the get go, it contains no guarantee that by 2025 all carbon emissions from coal must be captured, and that's the bit that really counts.