Broken pipeline causing massive oil leak into the Arctic Ocean.

The pipeline is owned by BP…an oil company that has an environmentally-friendly image.

The publicity caused by the leak in the the 30-year-old pipeline could seriously damage BP’s image, which has been carefully crafted to show it as a company concerned about the environment. Unlike other major oil companies, BP boasts that it is fully signed up to the dangers of global warming and it makes a conspicuous effort to flaunt its green credentials, tackling local environmental problems and erecting wind turbines above its petrol stations.

After the Exxon-Valdez oil spill in 1989, this is the largest recorded oil spill in Alaska.

Also, according to some, BP had been warned about this sort of thing happening, but did absolutely nothing.

Tsk. Tsk.