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  • Ukraine & the grip of gas – caught in the machine of Crude Britannia

    The newsfeeds hiss and rumble with stories of a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. We are all of us left waiting. Is this truly going to happen, a military conflict between Russia and NATO? Or is this a fevered concoction that aids the Kremlin, the US Administration, and the UK’s flailing Prime Minister? Will the…

    Ukraine & the grip of gas – caught in the machine of Crude Britannia

  • From Oil Road to Fire Road – of oil pipelines, gas pipelines and climate chaos

    Authored by James Marriott of Platform drawing on the collective experience of so many others in Platform and the multiple organisations we’ve collaborated with. Prompted by an invitation from the Climate Cultures Festival in Berlin to speak about Crude Britannia and The Oil Road, co-authored with Mika Minio-Paluello, I returned to the Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline…

    From Oil Road to Fire Road – of oil pipelines, gas pipelines and climate chaos

  • The Invisible Machine – a gas pipeline in the Caucasus and a handshake in No10

    On the evening of Thursday 26th April 2018, it was warm and sunny in London. President Ilham Aliyev strode down Downing Street and was met by Prime Minister Theresa May with smile and a handshake. They posed for the cameras on the red carpet outside No 10 and then retired inside. A short formal chat…

    The Invisible Machine – a gas pipeline in the Caucasus and a handshake in No10

  • EU urged to honour Paris Agreement, withdraw support for gas mega-pipeline

    Brussels, Belgium — In an open letter released today, climate scientists, indigenous leaders, environmental and social justice groups, actors and artists call on the European Union to immediately withdraw its support for a gas mega-pipeline that would ‘destroy Europe’s climate targets’. While European leaders criticised the United States for pulling out of the Paris Agreement,…

    EU urged to honour Paris Agreement, withdraw support for gas mega-pipeline

  • 8 Mar 2016 admin

    Walking the Line. New Interactive Documentary

    In Italy, Azerbaijan and the UK people are fighting against the devastating impacts of import pipelines and wresting back control over their energy system. In this beautiful documentary we made with Global Motion, Re:common and Counter Balance we meet the people who live alongside the Euro-Caspian Mega Pipeline and are organising against this gargantuan piece…

    Walking the Line. New Interactive Documentary

  • 2015 – The End of the Eternal Present

    Notes after a conversation with Doreen Massey, which took place ten days before the one-year anniversary of Syriza’s landslide victory of 25th January 2015. We were reflecting on the past year. What an extraordinary set of events has unfolded in those twelve months – the Syriza election, The Green Surge of last Winter, the transformational…

    2015 – The End of the Eternal Present

  • The Management of Democracy – a report from the BP AGM 2015

    The low hanger of the ExCeL building – the London Exhibition Centre – squats grey and devoid of windows on the northern quayside of the former Royal Victoria Dock which was closed and privatised in 1981. Despite having visited this hall for most of the BP Annual General Meetings of the past decade, the place…

    The Management of Democracy – a report from the BP AGM 2015

  • European Public Bank promises €700 million for the Euro-Caspian Mega Pipeline

    The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has promised up to €700 million for the disastrous Euro-Caspian Mega Pipeline. In a statement the Managing Director for Energy at the public bank said “the EBRD will invest €600-700 million in the Trans Adriatic Pipeline.” The Euro-Caspian Mega Pipeline (ECMP) is a huge piece of infrastructure…

    European Public Bank promises €700 million for the Euro-Caspian Mega Pipeline

  • 18 Mar 2014 james

    Gas grabs and 5 questions to power at the Caspian Corridor Conference

    The Euro Caspian Mega Pipeline is a massive infrastructure system designed to suck gas out of the Caspian into Western Europe. Construction of the pipeline involves politics and finance as much as it does concrete building materials,  and the conference I’m about to go to is one in a series of events attempting to make…

    Gas grabs and 5 questions to power at the Caspian Corridor Conference

  • BP is planning a $40 bn pipeline and wants us to subsidise it

    BP pushed for major subsidies at the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) AGM in Istanbul last weekend, while hyping the grand scale of its Euro-Caspian Mega Pipeline plans. Between speeches by Prime Ministers and sessions on “Supporting Growth Amidst Austerity”, oil companies revealed their intentions to spend $40 billion expanding Europe’s gas grid…

    BP is planning a $40 bn pipeline and wants us to subsidise it