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...bill, which eventually passed, was co-sponsored by council members Todd E. Plants '01 and Stephen N. Smith '02, among others, and called on Harvard to use its influence as a "large shareholder" in the BP-Amoco Corporation to vote for resolutions encouraging renewable energy use and discouraging new oil exploration at an April 19 shareholders' meeting...
...above the surface to allow animals to pass beneath. A truck leaking a pint of transmission fluid is treated as an oil spill, reported as such and laboriously cleaned up. Even so, there are limits. "Drilling for oil is an industrial process," concedes Ronnie Chappell, the main spokesman for BP Amoco on the North Slope. "Some things you can't get rid of--like pipelines." The oil industry by its very nature is rugged and intrusive...
None of these arguments carry much weight among the oilmen. Phillips Petroleum, BP Amoco and ExxonMobil all hope to profit from ANWR leases. So do Halliburton--the oil-field services giant headed until recently by Vice President Dick Cheney--and Enron, a large energy marketer run by Bush buddy Kenneth Lay. For them, it seems, the only good oil field is a tapped oil field...
...afford to be interrupted. It's a matter of life and death," says Dr. Ake Almgren, CEO of Capstone Turbine Corp., which has sold more than 1,000 units in two years to outfits ranging from high-tech start-ups and hospitals to a Blockbuster Video store and a BP Amoco gas station. According to estimates, 10% to 20% of new power will be distributed by 2010, so it's no wonder that heavyweights like Honeywell and Ingersoll-Rand are moving into the burgeoning business. Still, Maureen Helmer, chairman of the New York State public service commission, insists that "this...
...Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Dow Chemical, IBM and Johnson & Johnson have all made (and followed through with) pledges to cut their production of carbon dioxide; recently, Du Pont, Shell and others joined in a voluntary plan to reduce the wasteful use of energy and produce cleaner products. And just last week, BP and Ford donated $20 million to Princeton University to develop a technique called carbon sequestration, which could potentially stow carbon emissions safely within the earth...