{"id":1836,"date":"2013-05-02T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/new-zealand\/press-release\/john-key-and-the-oil-cowboys\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T15:52:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T03:52:40","slug":"john-key-and-the-oil-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/story\/john-key-and-the-oil-cowboys\/","title":{"rendered":"John Key and the oil cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThis government is very clear, we won’t let cowboys operate here in New Zealand\u201d. That\u2019s what our Prime Minister John Key said as he welcomed a wagon trail of ten gallon hat-wearing oil executives in Auckland this week.<\/p>\n

The thing is, Key is bending over backwards to welcome cowboy oil operators to our waters. And you don\u2019t get more cowboy than one particular Texan company.<\/p>\n

The company is Anadarko and they were heavily involved in \u00a0the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. It was the worst environmental disaster in American history.<\/p>\n

An investigation published yesterday<\/a> exposes just how involved they were. They were up to their oily elbows in the disaster.<\/p>\n

The dirty dossier against them is compelling. The Government’s crackdown on our proud tradition of protest at sea looks very much like the direct consequence of some industry lobbying. Anadarko is embroiled in a legal mess because of their role in polluting the oceans. Speaking about the Gulf of Mexico disaster, they have claimed<\/a>\u00a0that: \u201cAt no time did Anadarko have any input or say in the operation of the well in the planning or execution\u201d. We now know that that isn\u2019t true. In the US, they are being prosecuted under the Clean Water Act and for evading environmental clean-up costs.<\/p>\n

In the past year, there have been are at least three major actions before (or pending within) the US courts directly relevant to Anadarko\u2019s reputation as a good corporate citizen and steward of the environment. Two are related to the Deepwater Horizon affair, where Anadarko was intimately involved in approving and funding the details of the well\u2019s operations before the blowout.<\/p>\n

If Anadarko were interested in reducing pollution and protecting the sea that we fish and swim in they wouldn\u2019t be going to the frontiers to get at the last drops of oil. They would be supporting a clean energy future for us all. But they are not. They are a roadblock to New Zealand\u2019s future prosperity.<\/p>\n

Anadarko don\u2019t want you to know what kind of company they really are. And that\u2019s because they\u2019re a bunch of cowboys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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