Archive for June, 2010

Lend Lease bans its subsidiary Bovis from nuclear work because it is “unethical”.

June 11, 2010 Change for Good, Nuclear

Bovis Lend Lease has had to pull out of a nuclear deal with EDF energy at the eleventh-hour after parent company Lend Lease objected to working in the sector.

“After the credit crunch, next it will be oil”: FT op-ed.

June 10, 2010 Commentaries, Oil

In the light of the Deepwater Horizon disaster,  BP’s need to recognise peak-oil risk when it publishes its annual Statistical Review of World Energy today ….and henceforth. So I argue in the FT.

BP chief economist says “oil supply will never peak”.

June 9, 2010 Commentaries, Oil

This he says as he launches BP’s annual Statistical Review of World Energy. As I describe in this Guardian article, when asked how safe he feels in presenting his shareholders with such a risk assessment, he replies “very safe.” We’ll see.

Responsible businesses outperform rivals in both good and hard times.

June 7, 2010 Change for Good

Those companies managing and measuring their corporate responsibility issues through the CR Index continued to outperform their FTSE 350 peers on Total Shareholder Return (TSR) in seven out of the eight years from 2002 to 2009, an IPSOS-MORI survey shows.