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Total's biggest critics are watching this activity with interest, but not without skepticism. "It's good they are going through the motions," says Gavin Hayman of Global Witness, a British group that has been fiercely critical of Big Oil's actions in Africa. "They are moving in the right direction but nowhere near fast enough...
...renamed Myanmar by the regime) - which Total vigorously denies - and the 1999 wreck of the tanker Erika, which created a devastating oil spill that polluted some of France's best-loved beaches. "They had a lot of dodgy relationships [with governments] and the whole system was opaque," says Gavin Hayman of U.K.-based Global Witness, a fierce critic of Big Oil's behavior in Africa. But Total officials insist that they've changed their spots. So bribery and leaky old tankers are out; codes of conduct and wind energy are in. Instead of ignoring protest groups like Greenpeace, the company...
...part of an estimated $85 million Total spends on such societal projects annually, according to the company's first CSR report, published earlier this year (on recycled paper, naturally). Total's biggest critics are watching, but not without skepticism. "It's good they are going through the motions," says Hayman, of Global Witness. "They are moving in the right direction, but nowhere near fast enough." For all his doubts, Hayman was pleasantly surprised earlier this year when Jean-Pierre Labbé dropped by Global Witness's London offices, saying: "I am here to listen." Labbé, 55, a former head...
...this scale of patchiness in the landscape that once minimized the danger of horrific conflagrations like the infamous Hayman fire of 2002. In a single day, it is sobering to recall, the Hayman fire flared across some 60,000 acres in Denver's watershed, torching the crowns of trees and cooking the soil. Among the casualties were most of the 300-to-600-year-old ponderosa pines on a 7,500-acre site that Kaufmann has closely studied. It was a beautiful site, he says, ungrazed and unlogged. The only problem was that fuel loads were off-scale because...
...such as protecting valuable stands of trees. The logical next step, as Finney sees it, is to implement these measures across hundreds of thousands of acres. It is already clear, he notes, that prescribed burns have the power to modulate the behavior of big fires. One branch of the Hayman fire, for example, stopped at the edge of an area where a large prescribed burn had been conducted the year before, and the Rodeo-Chediski fire, for its part, was forced to detour around prescribed burns on forest lands managed by the White Mountain Apache tribe...