Oil companies should behave both as ‘corporations’ and as ‘citizens’; both for their ‘shareholders’ and ‘the planet’!

Try asking the $233.3 billion giant BP this & it would perhaps flash its sparkling new logo & utter, “We’ve re-christened ourself to BP! – Beyond Petroleum!” It has earmarked a walloping $8 billion as investments (through 2015) to its alternative energy division. The $175.1 billion oil-engine Chevron, too, pledged $5 billion in renewable technologies (during 2002-2009). Then there’re giants Shell & ConocoPhillips, which have already invested a mammoth $1.68 billion on bio-fuels till date.

So, while these global giants are donning the ‘Go Green’ hat, the champion – Exxon Mobil which re-wrote history by scripting a heart-stopping $39.5 billion in profits in 2006, begs to differ! Its argument as Rex Tillerson, CEO, Exxon Mobil puts it, is “to go in and invest like everybody else... Why would a shareholder want to own Exxon Mobil? We’re only going to invest shareholder money where they can get the returns they expect with Exxon!” Even forecasts by US Fed’s Climate Change Program (which concludes that fossil fuels will supply a strapping 80% of total energy needs by 2100) & EIA’s Energy 2007’s outlook (stating that natural fuels will provide 80% of energy even in 2030) support Rex’s strategy to not jump illogically into renewables.

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If you were astounded that India outrightly refused the World Bank’s $900 million annual water sector lending, pray read on, for the reason was not the 16% annual interest they were charging. The fact is, India really is not short of money for the water sector. Hadn’t dear Finance Minister P. Chidambaram allocated Rs.1,800 crore to NABARD for building 700 million new wells? And if this seemed less, then there is the Rs.12,400 crore grant for water related issues... and a separate Rs.100 crore for water harvesting programmes. As we said, it’s not about the money, but about the strategy!

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Cadbury is not short of suitors!

From the time it has announced its intentions of splitting its sweets and drinks business, it is believed that Cadbury has received around 12 proposals for the drink business. Sources claim that two private equity consortium have already been formed for bidding purposes. The bid is being valued at $16 million. Dr. Pepper and Snapple are two of its brands in the beverages business. A consortium comprising of Blackstone Group, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Lion Capital is supposed to be one of the parties in fray for cadbury’s business. Noticeably, Cadbury’s continental European beverages business was bought by Lion and Blackstone in February last year for $2.50 billion.

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