All Posts from June, 2010
Getting the facts straight in Nigeria
Today’s New York Times includes a front-page story on oil spills in Nigeria. Good investigative journalism is needed to bring attention to and increase understanding about this important environmental issue. Unfortunately, readers don’t get it with this article. Reporter Adam Nossiter simply gets the facts wrong.
A response on response plans
Tuesday’s Congressional hearing made for interesting political theater. In particular, a lot of hay was made of the apparent similarity among various energy companies’ oil-spill response plans. Here are some facts you might not have picked up from the hearing …
Tuesday’s hearing
Yesterday, the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment held a five-hour hearing on the Deepwater Horizon incident. Our chairman and CEO, Rex Tillerson, appeared with other industry executives. While the hearing was contentious at times, it provided an opportunity for the executives and members of Congress to address many of the issues on everyone’s minds – safety standards, energy security needs, spill response capabilities and more.
Addressing the Gulf of Mexico spill
What happened at the Deepwater Horizon rig is a tragedy on many levels – from the terrible loss of life involved, to the ongoing impact of the spill on the environment, communities and businesses of the Gulf Coast. Everyone at ExxonMobil shares in the concern over the accident and spill, and we have contributed personnel and equipment to help with the response.
Welcome to ExxonMobil Perspectives
I’m Ken Cohen, ExxonMobil’s vice president of public and government affairs. I’d like to welcome you to ExxonMobil’s new blog, Perspectives. We’ve been planning this blog for some time as a means of helping to encourage dialogue on the world’s energy challenges, and the policies and technologies that can best meet them. There’s no better time for it than now.
