19 April 2001
BP fends off AGM hostility
 http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/business_story.html?in_review_id=382912&in_review_text_id=328791

DESPITE a barrage of criticism from environmental and human rights groups, Britain's largest oil company BP Amoco fended off calls at its annual meeting today for the disposal of its stake in PetroChina and a phased withdrawal from fossil-fuel production, writes James Mclean.

Chairman Peter Sutherland disallowed three questions from Tibetan activists and shareholders calling for BP to sell its 2.2% stake in the State-backed Chinese oil company, saying that such a sale would be incompatible with BP Amoco's strategy in China.

Sutherland also said that a controversial plan to exploit hydrocarbon assets in Alaska's protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could be achieved 'without causing long-term damage'.

Thursday April 19
Green, Tibet activists drive messages home to BP
By Jonathan Leff

LONDON, April 19 (Reuters) - Environmentalists and pro-Tibet campaigners took their messages to the owners of oil supermajor BP on Thursday, winning over five percent support for a more directed ``green'' drive and divestment from a Chinese firm.

 http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010419/l19149225_5.html



Tibetan pipeline row dents BP's new image
Stuart Millar and Terry Macalister
Thursday April 19, 2001

(VERY GOOD ARTICLE)

Gendun Rinchen has come a long way in seven years. In May 1993, the Tibetan tour guide was thrown into jail outside Lhasa for attempting to pass a document detailing human rights abuses by the occupying Chinese forces to a visiting European delegation. He survived eight months without trial before an international campaign forced his release.

But this morning he faces a bigger challenge. At the Royal Festival Hall in London, he will stand before an audience of City investors and well-heeled home counties pensioners to challenge the might of the board of BP, the pride of British business.

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,475016,00.html



THURSDAY APRIL 19 2001
Oil barons find price pressures supplanting green concerns
BY CARL MORTISHED

A CACOPHONY of discordant voices will be heard today at the Royal Festival Hall in London. No modern choral work; just the annual shareholders’ meeting of The British Petroleum Company. A gaggle of protesters will attempt to upstage Sir John Browne, BP’s chief executive, as he addresses investors. The dissidents accuse the oil company of failing to honour its commitment to seek alternatives to fossil fuels, to go 'beyond petroleum' as the cute BP advertising slogan puts it.
BP will be scrupulously polite in responding. Privately, the company is furious that its effort to lead the industry towards greener pastures is so visibly stuck in the mud.

 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,37-116634,00.html

...may soon be mouldering in his grave.
Operation soft drill has started with kkkops in the US.
It is diversifying over to capitalist criminal conspriracy.
Contracts are being drawn up for the heads of nike,media moguls,monsanto execs,arms manufacturers and assorted warlords and snakeheads.It will be a pleasure to add JB to the hit list.There is a lot of clean drugs and mojo-pounds on offer so let the bidding begin!
Soft drill is a violence minimisation project for the global rock and rolling revolution.

Wouldn't it be simple and cost effective in the long term, to install solar panels on one house in African villages or towns, which would generate enough power for the rest of the area and beyond...and the same in the next town, and so on? If nothing, else, Africa has an abundance of sunlight?