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INTERVIEW: Kevin Smith of PLATFORM – Unravelling the Carbon Web
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Aug 16, 2008
Fossil fuels are the primary cause of climate change, which threatens catastrophic damages including massive sea-level rise, rising incidences of flood, drought and other extreme events, major water and food supply reductions, and the spread of disease. PLATFORMs Unraveling the Carbon Web focus is to reduce the environmental and social impacts of oil and to...
Open letter: BP can’t buy our silence
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Aug 2, 2016
Today’s Times has published an open letter from Mark Rylance, Naomi Klein, Nnimmo Bassey, Matthew Herbert, and 215 artists, actors, arts managers, musicians, frontline activists, campaigners, and scientists, arguing: We cannot afford another five years of BP-branded culture. Last Thursday BP announced the renewal of its flagship sponsorship programme. Its partners, this time: British Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Royal...
When Art Meets Activism. As Tate faces the Information Tribunal over BP sponsorship, is there a line between art and ethics?
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Sep 26, 2014
Interview with Kevin Smith (Platform) and Hannah Davey (Liberate Tate)
Tate fears that “protests might intensify” over BP sponsorship
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Sep 19, 2014
Richard Aydon, the Tate head of legal yesterday admitted in a tribunal that Tate fears that “protests might intensify” as a result of potential revelations about its controversial sponsorship relationship with BP. The statement was made when Aydon was acting as a witness before the Information Tribunal where Tate was appealing against a March ruling...
Tate’s BP sponsorship disclosure on trial at Information Tribunal
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Sep 9, 2014
Tate is to appear before the Information Tribunal on Thursday 18 September in the culmination of an almost three-year long legal battle over its refusal to disclose information surrounding its controversial sponsorship relationship with oil company BP. Tate has been subject to long-standing Freedom of Information requests regarding both the amount of money it had...
Extent of oil money in the arts revealed by new research and infographic
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Apr 28, 2014
Oil money only ‘tiny sliver’ in comparison to overall incomes New research from oil industry watchdog Platform today has revealed how small the amount of oil money going into UK arts institutions compared to their overall budgets. At the end of 2011, BP announced a £10 million sponsorship deal for four of London’s flagship cultural...
Un nouveau rapport interpelle BP et le Royaume-Uni sur des accords de gaz et d’armement avec le régime algérien
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Apr 28, 2014
Un nouveau rapport interpelle BP et le Royaume-Uni sur des accords de gaz et d’armement avec le régime algérien. Le rapport estime que les politiques extérieures britanniques et européennes renforcent un régime répressif et corrompu, en donnant la priorité aux intérêts des entreprises des énergies fossiles et à la main mise sur le gaz algérien,...
Infographic: Culture Clash – Arts & Oil Money
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Apr 26, 2014
Download as a pdf At the end of 2011, BP announced a £10 million sponsorship deal for four of London’s flagship cultural institutions over a five year period. The Culture Clash infographic shows pie charts of the four institutions – Tate, British Museum, Royal Opera House and the National Portrait gallery and breaks down their...
Cameron slammed for more North Sea oil support & subsidies
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Feb 24, 2014
Despite the UK pledging to phase out fossil fuel subsidies in 2012 along with other G20 nations, Cameron is announcing a whole new package of political support to the North Sea oil and gas industry.
Letter in Evening Standard on fossil fuel subsidies and floods
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Feb 17, 2014
by Kevin Smith, Platform Unedited version of the letter here: Ed Milliband is entirely right to critique David Cameron for breaking his promise to deliver “the greenest government ever.” Failing to act now on climate change, like the government’s cuts to flood defences, is a prime example of how spending cuts don’t equate to saving...
BP et le Royaume-Uni interpelés sur des accords de gaz et d’armement avec le régime algérien
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Feb 10, 2014
BP et le Royaume-Uni interpelés sur des accords de gaz et d’armement avec le régime algérien. En marge d’une conférence d’affaires sur les investissements en Algérie, des militants appellent au respect des « droits humains » en Algérie et s’opposent à « l’accaparement britannique du gaz algérien ». Lundi 10/02/2014 A distribuer immédiatement Des photos de qualité « impression » et...
BP & UK challenged over gas and arms deals with the Algerian regime
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Feb 10, 2014
BP & UK challenged over gas and arms deals with the Algerian regime Demonstrators at business conference call for “Algerian human rights, not Britain’ gas grabs” Monday 10/02/2014 A protest took place this morning over Britain’s “gas grabs” and its complicity in human rights abuses in Algeria at an an investor conference in London attended...
