Oil industry wakes up to its battered image
- added July 9, 2008
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"As oil companies reap huge profits and are blamed for greenhouse gas emissions, even industry insiders acknowledge they have an image problem and that slick adverts are not the answer."
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"Climate change is rapidly becoming one of the defining challenges of this generation and much of the public's fear and frustration is directed at the oil and gas sector," said Leor Rotchild, secretary of the World Petroleum Council Youth Committee.
He said the industry has also "developed a negative image by being connected, in some instances, with human rights abuses, corruption scandals, explosions and oil spills."
As a result, a dwindling number of young workers are joining the industry, he said in an article for WPC News, the daily gazette issued at the WPC.
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"Climate change is rapidly becoming one of the defining challenges of this generation and much of the public's fear and frustration is directed at the oil and gas sector," said Leor Rotchild, secretary of the World Petroleum Council Youth Committee.
He said the industry has also "developed a negative image by being connected, in some instances, with human rights abuses, corruption scandals, explosions and oil spills."
As a result, a dwindling number of young workers are joining the industry, he said in an article for WPC News, the daily gazette issued at the WPC.
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- pablomelendez
- 3 months ago
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If only that were a truly viable way of crippling this filthy industry: convincing people everywhere not to join its workforce. One can dream.
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- pablomelendez
- 3 months ago
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