BP's Post-Spill CSR Report Long on Rhetoric, Short on Goals

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By Matthew Wheeland
Published March 24, 2011

Reading any oil and gas company sustainability report is an exercise in parsing carefully bland wording -- "responding to stakeholder concerns," "extracting resources responsibly," and so on -- but never more so than in reading BP's 2010 Sustainability Review.
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There is one chart that, for me at least, really lays out the gist of the report. A small version is below, you can click on the image for the full-sized version.



What you see there is "BP in Figures," and the numbers in the shaded green box show figures that do not include the Deepwater Horizon spill. So these numbers represent a fork in the road, an alternative future as if the spill hadn't happened.

And the picture isn't that pretty: Even without Deepwater, the number and volume of oil spills were on the rise in 2010, and direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions were holding steady after climbing since 2006.


Read more: http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2011/03/24/bp-post-spill-csr-report-long-rhetoric-short-goals

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. And, BP is drilling NEW wells in the Gulf using the same faulty disaster plans

and mal-functioning blow out converter!