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.
Entries Tagged as 'deepwater horizon'
Crucial Lessons from the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster
July 29th, 2010 · View Comments · Business Ethics, Energy & Sustainability, Uncategorized
Tags: bp·deep sea oil drilling·deepwater horizon·energy policy·fossil fuels·nuclear power
BP’s Form Response to Offer of Help: They STILL Don’t Have a Clue
June 20th, 2010 · View Comments · Business Ethics, Energy & Sustainability, language
My friend Paul Krupin of Direct Contact PR sent me this memo from the Deepwater Horizon recovery team. Even if the Gulf of Mexico weren’t drowning in BP’s oil–a situation in which you’d expect the form letters would at least act grateful for the advice–this is one of the worst examples of corporate messaging I’ve [...]
Tags: bp company memo·Carl-Henric Svanberg·deepwater horizon·gulf oil spill·Tony Hayward
Wall Street Reform + Oil Cap + Gay Marriage
July 16th, 2010 · View Comments · Business Ethics, Democracy, Energy & Sustainability, General Commentary, Politics, Protests and Crackdowns, Social and Economic Justice, Socially Responsible Investing, media-general
Rarely do I open up my morning paper and see even one positive story among the day’s major news. Today—though I already knew about two of them from other sources—there were three: 1. The Wall Street Reform Bill has passed both houses of Congress. Is it everything I want? Of course not. Is it more [...]
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Tags: Argentina Gay Marriage·deepwater horizon·news stories·Oil Cap·Wall Street Reform