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Search Results for: BP Berkeley bioscience
BP abandons its cellulosic agrofuel ambitions
Yep, the British oil giant’s dream that spawned the largest corporate academic grant in history is dying, reports Bloomberg: BP Said Planning to Close US Cellulosic Operation by End-1Q 2015 BP Plc (BP/) plans to close down its U.S. cellulosic … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Amyris, Inc.
Greg Palast offers acidic take on the BP verdict
BP, the half-billion-dollar corporate sponsor of the University of California here in Berkeley, was the target this week of a scathing 150-page compendium of findings that help BP liable for billions in damages for the Gulf oil disaster. In dialog … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Corpocracy, Deep Politics, Environment, Europe, Global Corporate U., Governance, Health, Law, Nature, Politics, Resources, Video, Wealth
Berkeley’s benefactor and the Gulf oil tragedy
The explosion of the Deepwater Horison offshore drilling platform at BP’s Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico on 20 April 2010 killed ten oil workers and began a massive oil spill causing massive environmental damage and leading to last … Continue reading
Posted in Corpocracy, Deep Politics, Environment, Global Corporate U., Governance, Law, Nature, Politics, Resources, Video, Wealth
UC Berkeley’s role in the death of ecosystems
If you thought the economic news was grim, consider a newly published study just published in Nature, that most eminent of scientific journals. Written by a team of 22 internationally respected academics, the study paints a grim picture of a … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Agriculture, Asia, Corpocracy, Development, Environment, Governance, Human behavior, Latin America, Nature, Resources, Science, Video
Berkeley scientists dash agrofuel dreams
In a paper published in the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering, scientists at UC Berkeley’s Joint BioEnergy Institute have thrown a dash of cold water on some of the more utopian dreams of Cal’s euphoric would-be agrofuel entrepreneurs — including their … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Agriculture, Amyris, Inc., Corpocracy, Environment, Global Corporate U., Nature, Science
Berkeley’s latest agrofuel bonanza: Gasacco
Someday soon, if Berkeley’s bioengineers have their way, when your engine is smoking, it may be because your engine really is smoking — as in fueled by genetically engineered tobacco. Yep, while UC-BP is betting the farm on miscanthus, a … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Corpocracy, Environment, Global Corporate U., Nature, Resources, Science, Wealth
BP agrofuel boss: Pushing for policy changes
Sue Ellerbusch is BP’s president of U.S. agrofuel operations, making her a very important figure when it comes to UC Berkeley’s Energy Biosciences Institute, the research center built with $500 million in BP funds to devise new ways of making … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Corpocracy, Politics, Resources, Science
UCBP’s benefactor scores record profits
Protestors challenging the record-breaking agreement between UC Berkeley and the former Anglo Iranian Oil Company carried signs dubbing the university-by-the-Bay UCBP. And with good reason, since Cal’s pact with the oil giant gave the university a controversial $500 million Energy … Continue reading
Posted in Corpocracy, Global Corporate U., Photography, Wealth
WikiCables: Berkeley-grown firm gets noticed
In light of our previous post, we bring you three State Department cables from the WikiLeaks stash, each featuring a UC-Berkeley spawned agrofuel firm, launched sand perpetuated with a hefty cash infusion from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. The … Continue reading
Ex-Berkeley prof takes dimmer view on agrofuel
A few years back, when UC Berkeley and BP were starting the mutual seduction that led to the Cal’s $500 million BP-funded Energy Biosciences Institute, Dan Kammen was an enthusiastic booster of he project, dispatching researchers to India and Africa … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Europe, Global Corporate U., Nature, Politics, Resources, Science
BP in the news: UC, Gulf tarballs, plus a pipeline
BP, the oil company that bought UC Berkeley, is back in the news these days, and here’s a wrapup of the latest developments from the company that launched the overthrow Iran’s first democratically elected government, paving the way for all … Continue reading
Posted in Corpocracy, Deep Politics, Environment, Global Corporate U., Nature, Resources
BP’s Gulf spill: Damage control, hidden tragedy
So BP — the former Anglo Iranian Oil Company — launches a $500 million university-based research program, winning much praise from the press and high quarters. A few skeptics raise concerns that corporate control will result in efforts to control … Continue reading
Posted in Corpocracy, Environment, Governance, Nature, Science, Secrecy
Agrofuel Roundup: Monsanto, BP, & Amyris
It’s been a while since we took an in-depth look at agrofuels, a complex subject of immense importance to large parts of the world. While promoters of the push to transform crops into fuels are promising us a world of … Continue reading
PBS Frontline airs BP documentary tonight
And from what Ginia Bellafante writes at the New York Times, it’s a devastating look at a company with a long record of environmental and human catastrophes. This is the same company currently bankrolling the $500 million UC Berkeley-based Energy … Continue reading
Posted in Corpocracy, Environment, Global Corporate U., Nature, Resources
A must-see: Jennifer Washburn on the UC-BP pact
In this video, writer Jennifer Washburn talks with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! about BP’s $500 million research contract awarded to an academic alliance based at UC Berkeley. Washburn, author of the study Big Oil Goes to College, is a … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Corpocracy, Global Corporate U., Science, Secrecy
The UC-BP fracas gets curiouser and curiouser
UC Berkeley Executive Director of Public Affairs Dan Mogulof responded to our post on Jennifer Washburn’s report on conflicts of interest in the $500 mllion research pact between the university and BP with an email from a University of Washington … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Global Corporate U., Politics
BP’s dream: ‘The green parts’ of the globe
Steve Koonin, the former BP chief scientist who headed the corporate research program at UC Berkeley’s Energy Biosciences Institute, said the oil company wanted “the green parts” of the globe as home for is plantations of crops grown for fuels: … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Agriculture, Corpocracy, Geopolitics
Report: UC Berkeley-BP pact riddled with conflicts
BREAKING NEWS Jennifer Washburn, perhaps the nation’s best writer on the plight of the American university in the corporate era, has written a stunning report on the influence of oil companies on American universities. Big Oil Goes to College, released … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Amyris, Inc., Corpocracy, Global Corporate U., Public service
Berkeley and the great global agrofuel land rush
Corporate hunger for the promised profits of turning farmland and rain forests into agrofuel gold has sparked a global land rush that could leave millions, even billions, malnourished and starving as the fruits of their lands are diverted fill the … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Agriculture, Amyris, Inc., Banksters, Corpocracy, Development, Economy, Environment, Geopolitics, Latin America, Nature, Resources, Science, Wealth
Gulf spill puts UC-BP deal back in the news again
When UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau announced Cal had negotiated a $500 million research “partnership” with the Company Formerly Known As The Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., a small but vocal group of faculty and students spoke out. Critics charged that the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Agriculture, Corpocracy, Culture, Development, Economy, Environment, Global Corporate U., Governance, MSM, Nature, Politics, Resources, Science, Secrecy, Wealth
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