The most expendable Iraqi forces were arrayed in southern Kuwait behind mine belts, sand berms and oil-filled ditches that were set aflame.
Browne who was revered earlier in his career at BP, now fears the oil giant may ditch the slogan, 'Beyond Petroleum', because of it is associated with him.
For environmental activist Bill McKibben, the best way to pressure oil companies to ditch fossil fuels is to divest from them altogether.
Dismay greeted reports on November 6th that BP, an oil firm, was ditching plans to build a wind farm at the Isle of Grain, a blowy expanse of industrialised desolation in Kent.
So, in January, we ditched oil for our own carbon-free solar power and California's increasingly clean electricity grid and signed a three-year lease for an all-electric 2013 Nissan Leaf.
It was a Super Puma AS332 L2, carrying 16 passengers and two crew from the Borgsten Dolphin oil rig, which ditched in the North Sea at about 18 20 on Friday.
While Total isn't ditching oil and gas completely, the firm plans to dial back production of oil from tar sands, forgo fossil fuel exploration in the Arctic and apply a price to carbon when assessing future investments, according to a report detailing its new strategy.
"We are afraid because we expect to be attacked at any moment," said Raghad Majid, an art student who said she was ready to ditch her oil painting of a male head because it seems stilted.
In another show of official efforts to stem public ire over menaces to food safety, China's Supreme People's Court, the country's highest court, on Friday issued guidelines for sternly punishing related offenses, like taking "ditch" cooking oil that has been used and dumped in drains and processing it to be resold for cooking.
Through next Friday The painter Billy Al Bengston, one of the Los Angeles "car culture" stars of the 1960's and 70's, was among the first to ditch traditional oil paint on canvas, opting instead for sprayed layers of automobile lacquer on aluminum in soft colors, achieving a highly reflective, translucent surface.
