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Entries Tagged as 'bp'

Faked Photos: Is There No End to BP’s Stupidity?

August 2nd, 2010 · View Comments · Business Ethics, Transparency vs. Secrecy, propaganda

Just when you thought, oh, the well is capped and Tony Hayward’s gone, maybe we can get back to normal—comes this little bit of news, courtesy of my colleague Chris MacDonald, a business ethics guy in Canada: BP faked a photo of its Houston command center to make it look busier and more determined than [...]

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Crucial Lessons from the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster

July 29th, 2010 · View Comments · Business Ethics, Energy & Sustainability, Uncategorized

All deep-sea offshore drilling needs to be shut down until the appropriate safety measures are in place so that Deepwater Horizon is not repeated. It’s a lot harder to put the genie back in the bottle than to keep it in to begin with.

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Does Being Green Require Being Good?

June 29th, 2010 · View Comments · Business Ethics, International Association of Earth-Conscious Marketers

What about a tougher case? Suppose someone has been involved with the sustainability initiatives over at BP (a company that actually at one point was fairly well regarded by mainstream environmentalists)? Some kind of arbitration system will be needed to determine who qualifies and who does not. Any ideas for how to set that up?

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Limbaugh’s Lies on Environment and Safety

May 12th, 2010 · View Comments · Business Ethics, Media Ethics, Social and Economic Justice, propaganda

It’s really hard to imagine that anyone could take seriously the nonsense—make that the total falsehoods—spewed by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. It would make for good humor, except that people believe these shameless harlots who have dedicated their lives to the service of corporate greed and gratuitous attacks on progressives (or [...]

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