Hints and tips:
...SBTi was still “finding their way a little bit,” said Randeep Somel, manager of the M&G Climate Solutions Fund, but investors had “very quickly recognised that SBTi is effectively . . . the gold standard...
...“I’m dependent on that money to feed my kids.”...
...“I call the pilot of the port of Valdez and basically asked him, ‘Can you tell me what’s going on?’,” the Brooklyn-born founder of Pira Energy says of the Exxon Valdez disaster....
...If there’s going to be an Exxon-Valdez privacy moment, I’m beginning to think it may be in this area of medical records, which we actually own, but are being used in a variety of ways we don’t understand...
...Antonio Davon Brown, 29 Brown, was reportedly a captain in the US Army Reserve and a graduate from Florida A&M University....
...“I say to myself ‘OK, I’m 50, recently divorced, frequently make weekend trips to Canada to ski’. I want it to sound as natural as possible.”...
...“Because if you’re going to offer me chump change, I’m going to give it to the attorneys and throw the dice.”...
...“Based on what I’ve seen so far I’m cautiously optimistic that $20bn is more than enough,” said Mr Feinberg, while noting that government clean-up costs would also be claimed from the fund as well as the...
...Thomas Shirley, professor of life sciences at Texas A&M University, warned that the report that three quarters of the oil was gone was “largely an estimate”....
...“And I’m sure it’s because my name’s Kindra Arnesen, but that’s fine. I don’t care. He can eat the other end of my attorney.”...
...Prof Kysar said: “I’m not saying he was right or wrong to make those rulings; the point is simply that in the wake of Louisiana’s last disaster, he showed no sign of overreaching to help out victims.”...
...That fate is likely to be BP’s, and may tie it up in court for more than a decade if the Exxon Valdez experience is anything to go by....
...“Lord, I feel like going home/I tried and I failed and I’m tired and weary/Everything I done was wrong/And I feel like going home.”...
...“They’re saying ‘Say nothing, do nothing, admit nothing’ and I’m sitting on the other shoulder saying ‘Tell it all, tell it fast and tell it truthfully’.”...
...Shares in BP have fallen by almost 50 per cent since the explosion at its Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico created the worst crude oil spill since the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska in 1989....
...Nor, I’m told, is it equipped with airbags. Were anything to abruptly appear in our path – say, a rogue kayaker – Jeff McAllister could not just slam on the brakes and dive under the nearest lifeboat....
...“If everybody is mad at me, I’m probably about where I have to be.” Congress has yet to recognise energy decisions may have a cost for the consumer....
...“I’m getting more customers coming through my door these days,” says Enrique Morales, a long-time La Candelaria resident and bakery owner....
...(The only pity was that he sounded a bit like the beetle-infested train company boss: “I’m disappointed, I’m upset, but I can ensure your viewers that we are doing everything we can about the situation,”...
...Each of the ones we remember – Titanic, Bounty, Beagle, Spray, Victory, Mayflower, Exxon Valdez – summon up in a few syllables a wealth of history, adventure or human folly....
...I’m not an expert. Are we dealing with something genetic? Pure bad luck? Or possibly related to a change in the environment?” he asks....
...M r Raymond commanded a great deal of respect in the industry but he was hardly diplomatic....
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