Blogposts tagged 'Rosneft'

BP's 'sadly naive' attitude

Posted by ben - 2 February 2011 at 11:22am - 3 Comments

BP has learned little from its experience in the Gulf of Mexico

BP’s results for the last quarter of 2010 were published yesterday, with the firm admitting that the total cost of the Deepwater Horizon spill will be about £26bn. This off the back of making a total loss of £3.1bn for last year, despite final quarter profits of £2.9bn (made mainly because of the high oil price).

Article tagged as: arctic, BP, climate change, deepwater horizon, go beyond oil, oil spill, rosneft

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Who's going to defend the Arctic?

Posted by jamess - 18 January 2011 at 5:43pm - 13 Comments

Oil companies are taking their drills to the Arctic

The masters at Marvel comics would struggle to find bad guys worse than these.

Take two of the world’s biggest environmental villains – Russian Rosneft (special powers: oil leaks. 7,526 in 2009 alone) and British BP (special powers: oil spills. Gulf of Mexico, 2010).