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BP shareholders at loggerheads over vote on tar sands development
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 4th, 2010
Guardian: Large shareholders will be pitted against each other this week in a row over oil giant BP's involvement with tar sands in a battle that is set to dominate this year's round of company annual meetings. A special resolution has been filed by 143 shareholders for BP's annual meeting on 15 April, demanding the company provide a full report by next year about the risks of its planned tar sands development in Canada. The Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF) has sparked conflict ...
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Aral Sea ‘one of the planet’s worst environmental disasters’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 4th, 2010
Telegraph: Published: 12:00AM BST 05 Apr 2010 The sea which has shrunk by 90 per cent has ruined the once-robust fishing economy and left fishing trawlers stranded in sandy wasterlands. The sea shrank largely due to a Soviet project to boost cottong production in the arid region. Its evaporation has left layers of highly salted sand, which winds can carry as far away as Scandinavia and Japan, and which plague local people with health troubles. Ban Ki-Moon toured the sea by ...
BP fights to limit controls on shale gas drilling
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 4th, 2010
Guardian: BP is lobbying on Capitol Hill against a federal US environmental agency being given jurisdiction over the use of a controversial method of extracting gas from shale deposits, ahead of an important meeting this week. The London-based oil company wants decisions on drilling techniques such as hydraulic fracturing – which uses high-pressure liquids to force fissures – to be taken at state level, rather than being left to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), whose specialist ...