The biggest global warming crime in history
AlterNet
by Cahal Milmo
12/17/07
“BP, the British oil giant that pledged to move ‘Beyond Petroleum’ by finding cleaner ways to produce fossil fuels, is being accused of abandoning its ‘green sheen’ by investing nearly £1.5bn to extract oil from the Canadian wilderness using methods which environmentalists say are part of the ‘biggest global warming crime’ in history. The multinational oil and gas producer, which last year made a profit of £11bn, is facing a head-on confrontation with the green lobby in the pristine forests of North America after Greenpeace pledged a direct action campaign against BP following its decision to reverse a long-standing policy and invest heavily in extracting so-called ‘oil sands’ that lie beneath the Canadian province of Alberta and form the world’s second-largest proven oil reserves after Saudi Arabia...
http://www.alternet.org/story/70299/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cahal+Milmo
by Cahal Milmo
12/17/07
“BP, the British oil giant that pledged to move ‘Beyond Petroleum’ by finding cleaner ways to produce fossil fuels, is being accused of abandoning its ‘green sheen’ by investing nearly £1.5bn to extract oil from the Canadian wilderness using methods which environmentalists say are part of the ‘biggest global warming crime’ in history. The multinational oil and gas producer, which last year made a profit of £11bn, is facing a head-on confrontation with the green lobby in the pristine forests of North America after Greenpeace pledged a direct action campaign against BP following its decision to reverse a long-standing policy and invest heavily in extracting so-called ‘oil sands’ that lie beneath the Canadian province of Alberta and form the world’s second-largest proven oil reserves after Saudi Arabia...
http://www.alternet.org/story/70299/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cahal+Milmo
rudkla - 18. Dez, 11:27
