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Cameron slammed for more North Sea oil support & subsidies
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.
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Does the EU think 40 Egyptian lives are worth less than one Ukrainian life?
On Wednesday, the European Union’s house bank froze its lending in Ukraine with the escalating violence, as the death toll passed 26. There have been reports of ‘death squads’ kidnapping opposition activists from hospitals, and today deaths have spiralled – some protestors claimed that 100 died. Western governments threatened sanctions and the President of the…
20 Feb 2014 admin -
February 14: Gas grabbing in Algeria, floods & fossil fuel subsidies & more
Gas grabbing in Algeria, Floods & fossil fuel subsidies & more 19 February 2014 Dear All,Welcome to our first newsletter of 2014. We’ve got some new reasearch published on the link between the UK’s “gas grab” and human rights abuses in Algeria, an intervention we’ve been making to link the recent flooding to fossil fuels, a report…
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We don’t want the oil companies! – Italian community says no to pipeline
This blog is also available in Italian. The future is alternative, sustainable sources of energy. We don’t want the oil companies! This can be an independent state, a Puglia free from the oil companies Alessandro Mancini slaps the wooden table square with his palm as he talks. I am sat in a warm kitchen discussing…
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New law in Nigeria could hold polluters to account
Last week, a letter coordinated by Platform and signed by 18 organisations was published in the Nigerian media. The letter focussed on a new piece of legislation designed to improve the response to oil spills. In 2012, Senator Dr. Bukola Saraki, the Chair of the Senate committee for the environment tabled a bill aimed at strengthening…
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Letter in Evening Standard on fossil fuel subsidies and floods
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…
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Floods, fossil fuel subsidies and the Daily Mail
Many people were pretty nauseated by the Daily Mail front cover at the start of this week, promoting a UKIP backed petition calling for David Cameron to scrap the foreign aid budget and to instead use it for the relief of flood victims. Beneath the populist posturing seemed to lie a more sinister intent. As…
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UK foreign policy & the Algerian dictatorship – “an ideal relationship?”
A guest blog from Hamza Hamouchene of the Algeria Solidarity Campaign and author of our newly published report Reinforcing Dictatorships – Britain’s Grab and Human Rights in Algeria. After more than six months of researching and documenting the British energy interests in my country Algeria, I feel extremely happy that the Algerian-British relations came under scrutiny from the…
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BP et le Royaume-Uni interpelés sur des accords de gaz et d’armement avec le régime algérien
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…
