The Age of Corporate Environmentalism

[random3434]

On the company's Web site, casual visitors can select from the following tabs: "About BP," "Environment and Society," and "Products and Services." In that order. Never mind that BP's spending on green projects constitutes less than half of 1 percent of its revenue. It publicly supports stricter pollution regulations and the Kyoto Protocols, the international agreement calling for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and gives money to groups that lobby for both. BP is selling itself as the anti-ExxonMobil.

ExxonMobil has long been a favorite target of environmental activists, especially since the tanker Exxon Valdez sank off the coast of Alaska in 1989, covering all those adorable Arctic animals in oil. Unlike BP, the company publicly opposes the Kyoto Protocols and has done so for years. That isn't its biggest problem, though. According to Robert L. Bradley Jr., president of the Houston-based Institute for Energy Research, one major reason environmentalists go after ExxonMobil is the company's history of funding free market groups such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Heartland Institute (and Bradley's own organization).

Ironically, Exxon is also one of the biggest investors in clean technology. Their recent safety record is also significantly better than BP's. Says George Washington's Rivera, "The surprising thing about Exxon is that their facilities are run very well." Better, in fact, than BP's: After a March explosion at a BP plant in Texas City that killed 15 people and injured 170, the EPA and other agencies concluded that the deaths were preventable and that they were primarily the result of carelessness by BP management. The Houston Chronicle editorialized that "BP's carefully nourished image as an environmentally sensitive, innovative company is at odds with its history, particularly in the Houston area."

http://reason.com/archives/2006/02/01/the-age-of-corporate-environme/singlepage

 

[Oddball]

They see a way to separate the gullible from their money...Nothing new under the sun there.

Nice source.

 

[random3434]

They see a way to separate the gullible from their money...Nothing new under the sun there.

Nice source.

Sorry, the Libertarian Times website wasn't working.

 

[uscitizen]

It is all about appearance, not truth.

 

[Old Rocks]

BP's past record, and the negligence demonstrated in the present disaster should lead to criminal charges for those in control of this operation. Any executives of the company that knew of the chances being taken, and did not speak out against that, should also be charged.

We are in the process of losing a very large, beautiful, and important part of our nation. Part of the heritage of the children of this nation has been destroyed. Do we just say, oh well, the price of doing business?

 

[Oddball]

Any executives of the company that knew of the chances being taken, and did not speak out against that, should also be charged.

They were more or less forced into drilling a mile under the surface of the ocean, in international waters, because nutbar environmentalist wackaloons like you poop your pants when oil companies want to explore on dry land.

We are in the process of losing a very large, beautiful, and important part of our nation. Part of the heritage of the children of this nation has been destroyed. Do we just say, oh well, the price of doing business?

You could be asked the same question...Has being a reactionary nutcase, who freaks out at the thought of producing energy in America, been worth it?

 

[xsited1]

You just can't trust British Corporations. Damn you Britain!!!!!

 

[random3434]

You just can't trust British Corporations. Damn you Britain!!!!!

Did California Girl hack your account xsited1?


He wants his life back! And he's not quitting!

http://alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE6540G1.htm

 

[xsited1]

You just can't trust British Corporations. Damn you Britain!!!!!

Did California Girl hack your account xsited1?

These people are corrupt down to the last and anyone who doesn't know that is a fucking idiot. Fuck the GOP! Fuck the Dems! Bankrupt the bastards rather than giving them a law to hide behind!

 

[random3434]

You just can't trust British Corporations. Damn you Britain!!!!!

Did California Girl hack your account xsited1?

These people are corrupt down to the last and anyone who doesn't know that is a fucking idiot. Fuck the GOP! Fuck the Dems! Bankrupt the bastards rather than giving them a law to hide behind!

She did hack your account!

I better get my IT people on it right away!

And let's not forget those poor marine animals, the dolphins, the birds, the fish, Samson's squid. I'm sure our children won't mind either.

 

[Bfgrn]

Any executives of the company that knew of the chances being taken, and did not speak out against that, should also be charged.

They were more or less forced into drilling a mile under the surface of the ocean, in international waters, because nutbar environmentalist wackaloons like you poop your pants when oil companies want to explore on dry land.

We are in the process of losing a very large, beautiful, and important part of our nation. Part of the heritage of the children of this nation has been destroyed. Do we just say, oh well, the price of doing business?

You could be asked the same question...Has being a reactionary nutcase, who freaks out at the thought of producing energy in America, been worth it?

Come on DUD...you HAVE to be a real 'Jethro' to parrot the mantra of 'Empty Vessel' Palin.

 

[Oddball]

I'm parroting nothing, pinhead.

Actions have consequences....Were the BP accident in shallower water or on dry land, this accident would've been mopped up in a few days, and anyone with half a brain --which obviously excludes wackjobs like you and Old Rocksinthehead-- knows it.

 

[Bfgrn]

I'm parroting nothing, pinhead.

Actions have consequences....Were the BP accident in shallower water or on dry land, this accident would've been mopped up in a few days, and anyone with half a brain --which obviously excludes wackjobs like you and Old Rocksinthehead-- knows it.

Hey pea brain. BP could drill a hole in their parking lot...only one problem, they'd get more oil breaking into my garage and stealing my case of Valvoline 10W-30.

 

[random3434]

 

[Old Rocks]

I'm parroting nothing, pinhead.

Actions have consequences....Were the BP accident in shallower water or on dry land, this accident would've been mopped up in a few days, and anyone with half a brain --which obviously excludes wackjobs like you and Old Rocksinthehead-- knows it.

Dooodeee.......
1. There is a valve, $500,000, that would have prevented this whole affair. It is in standard use in Europe and off South America.

2. There was no reason to assemble the blowout protector without the right blue prints.

3. And then, when put into place, they could see the blow protector was not functioning. But they went ahead, anyway.

4. Then there is the matter of the casing. By their own standards, the casing was inadaquete, and had a danger of failure at the pressures they were seeing in the well.

5. Yet, because they were behind schedule, against standard operating procedures, against the advice of the people from Haliburton that did the cementing job, they withdrew the drillers mud before the cement had cured.

The explosian that destroyed that platform and killed 11 men was not an accident, it was the result of criminal negligence.

Now if you want to excuse BP with some kind Eco-Nazi bullshit, you go right ahead. But be sure you have branded yourself as a total idiot.

 

[California Girl]

Apparently, refusing to march in lock step with stupidity amounts to 'defending'. Go figure.

 

[Oddball]

Apparently.

 

[Oddball]

U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study

The decision by the department's Minerals Management Service (MMS) to give BP's lease at Deepwater Horizon a "categorical exclusion" from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on April 6, 2009 -- and BP's lobbying efforts just 11 days before the explosion to expand those exemptions -- show that neither federal regulators nor the company anticipated an accident of the scale of the one unfolding in the gulf.

 

[Old Rocks]

Yep. The MMS. Bet there are going to be a number of investigations and people doing time, both the bribed, and the bribers. Won't be any exemptions in the near future, for sure. Maybe none ever needed again as we as a nation measure the risk vesus benefits of offshore drilling.

 

[Samson]

On the company's Web site, casual visitors can select from the following tabs: "About BP," "Environment and Society," and "Products and Services." In that order. Never mind that BP's spending on green projects constitutes less than half of 1 percent of its revenue. It publicly supports stricter pollution regulations and the Kyoto Protocols, the international agreement calling for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and gives money to groups that lobby for both. BP is selling itself as the anti-ExxonMobil.

ExxonMobil has long been a favorite target of environmental activists, especially since the tanker Exxon Valdez sank off the coast of Alaska in 1989, covering all those adorable Arctic animals in oil. Unlike BP, the company publicly opposes the Kyoto Protocols and has done so for years. That isn't its biggest problem, though. According to Robert L. Bradley Jr., president of the Houston-based Institute for Energy Research, one major reason environmentalists go after ExxonMobil is the company's history of funding free market groups such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Heartland Institute (and Bradley's own organization).

Ironically, Exxon is also one of the biggest investors in clean technology. Their recent safety record is also significantly better than BP's. Says George Washington's Rivera, "The surprising thing about Exxon is that their facilities are run very well." Better, in fact, than BP's: After a March explosion at a BP plant in Texas City that killed 15 people and injured 170, the EPA and other agencies concluded that the deaths were preventable and that they were primarily the result of carelessness by BP management. The Houston Chronicle editorialized that "BP's carefully nourished image as an environmentally sensitive, innovative company is at odds with its history, particularly in the Houston area."

The Age of Corporate Environmentalism - Reason Magazine

Couple of interesting points:

1. "Never mind that BP's spending on green projects constitutes less than half of 1 percent of its revenue."

I wonder if that would be more or less % revenue of the US Government's $6.3 million it spent on researching oil spill prevention?

2. "Ironically, Exxon is also one of the biggest investors in clean technology."

When congress cuts off their subsidies as Obama has encouraged, you can kiss all that "investment in clean technology" goodby.