May 18
Let's interrogate Shell's CSR in Nigeria
Note: This piece needs to be treated with care. I was the victim of a sophisticated hoax. I apologize to
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Paul Seaman
Analyst and PR consultant
May 12
Risk free energy? Boycott BP? No way!
BP and the makers of the Titanic both at some point understated the potential risk involved in their respective challenges. That's all the more reason, I believe, for BP to use the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to set the record straight with the public about the realities of its business.
3 min read
May 04
Stockholm Accords interrogated – part 2
Here's the second in my trilogy on the Stockholm Accords. This one deals with the Accords themselves, following
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May 02
Stockholm Accords interrogated - part 1
This is for everyone interested in the Stockholm Accords and the debate about the future of PR. This is a
18 min read
Apr 29
This s**t storm was Brown through and through
Gordon Brown's “Bigotgate” gaffe was fabulous. He's caught complaining that his staff put him with the
3 min read
Apr 26
Taking the terror out of nuclear power
Every form of energy is bottled force. The chemical, biological, defence, aviation, oil, gas, hydropower industries all - like nuclear - suffer from occasional accidents. All can theoretically produce or be turned into weapons of mass destruction. So what?
17 min read
Apr 26
Brilliant BBC Horizon
The Linear No Threshold (LNT) model for assessing radiation risk is flawed. We should base our assumptions on the reassuring factual evidence from Chernobyl rather than continue with old gloomy assumptions, which were based on flawed extrapolation from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
8 min read
Apr 26
Chernobyl and the media: case studies
Three examples of misinformation or fake news about the consequences of the Chernobyl accident promulgated by mainstream media.
4 min read
Apr 26
Getting real about the world's nuclear waste
Why should we hold up the development of nuclear power stations whilst we wait for the politics of waste disposal to come right? The question I want to explore, however, is how did this link ever arise in the first place, and how do we break it?
7 min read
Apr 26
Chernobyl's death toll interrogated
The Guardian newspaper reported 500,000 were killed by Chernobyl in Ukraine. While Ukraine health ministry reported in 1995 that 125,000 people had died from all causes in the Chernobyl-affected parts of Ukraine in the nine years following the accident. It doesn't add up.
7 min read
Apr 26
Ukraine’s controversial nuclear future
Ukraine is piggy-in-the-middle, caught between Russia and the West. Its nuclear prospects are exciting on several fronts – but its overall energy-dependency means it has to be diplomatic.
8 min read
Apr 26
Three Mile Island: BBC gets it wrong
Veteran journalist Martin Bell’s account of the TMI accident of 1979 relied on his own memories of the event and on archive material and fresh interviewing, but Bell has ignored a mass of evidence, which would tell a very different tale to the one broadcast.
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