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Post by moabiter on Jun 1, 2010 19:20:56 GMT -8
Former Dick Cheney Spokesperson Begins Job at BP June 1, 2010 6:06 PM Anne Womack-Kolton, the 2004 campaign press secretary for Vice President Dick Cheney, began a new job today as BP's head of U.S. media relations, TPM reports. Reuters first reported BP's hiring of Womack-Kolton, who also worked as head of public affairs at the Department of Energy under former President George W. Bush. The company is looking to improve its battered public image in the wake of the disastrous and continuing oil leak in the Gulf. www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20006498-503544.htmlAlso of note: 1 June 2010. CBC.ca BP stock tumbles as feds announce oil-spill probes
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Post by moabiter on Jul 4, 2010 23:04:26 GMT -8
BP Hires Dick Cheney’s Press Secretary, Anne Womack-Kolton June 1 2010 Under threat of receivership and criminal investigation for its destruction of the Gulf of Mexico, foreign oil giant BP has hired a former top aide for Vice President Dick Cheney to be their new spokeswoman. Anne Womack-Kolton has been hired to be “head of U.S. media relations.” A rising star in the Bush-Cheney White House since the 2000 campaign, Womack-Kolton served as Cheney’s press secretary during the 2004 election before running public affairs in the Bush Department of Energy: ... [bio resume notes]... “Back in 2001-02 Anne Womack-Kolton defended Cheney’s secret energy task force,” Daily Kos contributor RL Miller writes. Cheney’s energy group met with several BP representatives, including a private meeting between Cheney and BP CEO John Browne. In 2007 Browne retired from BP “after lying to a court about his relationship with another man.” With its stock spiralling, BP hired her away from the Brunswick Group, the international communications and crisis management firm which BP has been paying to “craft its public response to the spill.” Womack-Kolton joined the Brunswick Group in 2007 to manage “high stakes communications surrounding public affairs issues and political risk management for domestic and global corporate clients.” thinkprogress.org/2010/06/01/cheney-bp-flack/
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Post by moabiter on Jul 20, 2010 22:51:42 GMT -8
MEDIA RELATIONS BP's Capricorn One Command Center & other fake photos www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/incident_response/STAGING/local_assets/images/GOM_simops_operations_top_kill_houston.jpgfrom - Monday, July 19, 2010 BP photoshops fake photo of crisis command center, posts on main BP site www.americablog.com/2010/07/bp-photoshops-fake-photo-of-command.htmlAs BP makes its latest attempt to plug its gushing oil well, news photographers are complaining that their efforts to document the slow-motion disaster in the Gulf of Mexico are being thwarted by local and federal officials—working with BP—who are blocking access to the sites where the effects of the spill are most visible. More than a month into the disaster, a host of anecdotal evidence is emerging from reporters, photographers, and TV crews in which BP and Coast Guard officials explicitly target members of the media, restricting and denying them access to oil-covered beaches, staging areas for clean-up efforts, and even flyovers. Last week, a CBS TV crew was threatened with arrest when attempting to film an oil-covered beach. On Monday, Mother Jones published this firsthand account of one reporter’s repeated attempts to gain access to clean-up operations on oil-soaked beaches, and the telling response of local law enforcement. The latest instance of denied press access comes from Belle Chasse, La.-based Southern Seaplane Inc., which was scheduled to take a New Orleans Times-Picayune photographer for a flyover on Tuesday afternoon, and says it was denied permission once BP officials learned that a member of the press would be on board.www.newsweek.com/2010/05/26/the-missing-oil-spill-photos.html
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Post by moabiter on Jul 20, 2010 23:00:52 GMT -8
MEDIA RELATIONS Wackenhut, G4S Security hired by BP to guard beaches Posted on June 29, 2010 WMR’s sources on the Gulf coast report that BP Security personnel are being augmented by off-duty Alabama state troopers and G4S Wackenhut private security guards. The BP Security personnel ensure that no observers are present on Gulf coast beaches during night time hours when BP contractors scour the beaches and pick up and covertly dispose of dead dolphins, turtles, birds, and other sea animals that wash ashore covered with oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. BP is secretly disposing of the dead animals in order to avoid paying fines and compensation for killing endangered and protected species like turtles, dolphins, and brown pelicans. The sharp drop off in oxygen levels in the Gulf is forcing many sea animals into shallower waters in order to breathe, however, sharks are also following the easier prey into coastal rivers and inlets... BP Security continues to harass journalists and photo-journalists who are attempting to cover the full extent of the damage to the Gulf. One of our photo-journalist colleagues was told by BP Security that he could not take photographs on public land in Alabama of beach cleanup efforts by BP contractors. bpoilspillcomp.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/wackenhut-g4s-security-hired-by-bp-to-guard-beaches/
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Post by moabiter on Jul 20, 2010 23:47:13 GMT -8
Quite botched-looking on that article source! Oi veh. Environment/Oil-Spills/Alabama-State-Troopers-Moonlighting-as-BP-Security-Guards Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Chicago' for 'CDT/-5.0/DST' instead in /home/hot2040/public_html/modules/mod_swmenufree/functions.php on line 35 Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Chicago' for 'CDT/-5.0/DST' instead in /home/hot2040/public_html/modules/mod_swmenufree/functions.php on line 35 Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Chicago' for 'CDT/-5.0/DST' instead in /home/hot2040/public_html/modules/mod_swmenufree/functions.php on line 35 Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Chicago' for 'CDT/-5.0/DST' instead in /home/hot2040/public_html/modules/mod_swmenufree/functions.php on line 35 oilprice.com/Environment/Oil-Spills/Alabama-State-Troopers-Moonlighting-as-BP-Security-Guards.html
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Post by wtf2 on Jul 21, 2010 14:34:04 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Sept 29, 2010 0:16:36 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Feb 4, 2011 11:25:16 GMT -8
Greenberg runs a strategic research firm, not a lobbying shop -- according to the case study detailed on the firm's website, they "helped BP plan and evaluate its successful re-branding campaign, focusing the company's branding on energy solutions, including the development of solar and other renewable energy sources." Emanuel and Greenberg are friends. Emanual's free-rent 'play condo' owned by Rep. Rosa DeLauro wired for blackmail. mediamatters.org/blog/201006080025
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Post by moabiter on Apr 8, 2015 20:35:38 GMT -8
BP misuses data to fit its claim the Gulf won't suffer long-term from spill: Editorial www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2015/03/bp_misuses_data_to_suit_its_st.htmlon March 18, 2015 at 6:03 AM, updated March 18, 2015 at 6:04 AM With the fifth anniversary of the massive BP oil spill a few weeks away and hefty fines pending in federal court, the oil company badly wants the world to think that things are OK in the Gulf. "Areas that were affected are recovering and data BP has collected and analyzed to date do not indicate a significant long-term impact to the population of any Gulf species," Laura Folse, BP executive vice president for response and environmental restoration, said in the report's introduction. Not so fast. This sort of tactic from BP is nothing new. The company has been trying to put a positive spin on the massive spill since oil started spewing into the Gulf five years ago. As the Deepwater Horizon rig sank on April 22, 2010, an expert told BP that the well would spill 82,000 barrels a day if unobstructed, according to internal BP email messages disclosed later in a federal lawsuit. The company kept that vital information from government officials who were preparing the disaster response. Without the data, the first official estimate on April 24, 2010, was set ridiculously low -- at only 1,000 barrels a day. An expert task force later found that the true flow at that time was 62,000 barrels a day, which was much closer to the maximum flow estimate BP had received the day the rig collapsed. BP also tried to renege on the terms of a 2012 court settlement for economic damages from the spill. The company was unhappy that claimants were not required to show a direct link to the spill for their losses. But as the New Orleans, St. Bernard Parish and River Region chambers of commerce and chambers in Alabama and Florida pointed out in a brief filed with the Supreme Court last fall: The settlement terms were "written in plain English" and vetted by BP and its lawyers.
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