Environment-friendly and accountant-friendly may be converging at the consumer end of the production chain - where resource savings often bring green in line with lean, and create a selling point that enables more to be charged for less. Further up, fierce trade-offs are still in evidence. BPs plans to upgrade and expand an oil refinery in Indiana have been halted by pollution discharge targets which it says are unattainable with present technology.
BPs green drive dangles axe over $3.8bn US refinery development
Posted by Finance Week in Strategy & Planning, Risk & Regs on Wed, 06/08/2008 - 11:20
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The Bottom Line: Britain still great for business
Political strategy needed to show that Britain is still great for business, says Richard Thomas
"Out of one side of his mouth, Gordon Brown is saying he will make Britain an attractive place to invest, but out of the other he is clobbering higher earners with 50%, which sends out the opposite message.