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Volunteer quits Bergen International Festival over Statoil sponsorship
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Mar 15, 2013
Controversies around oil sponsorship of the arts aren’t confined to the UK. This is a translation of an article by Ragnhild Freng Dale printed in Bergens Tidende on March 1st, which you can find online here in its original Norwegian. The Bergen International Festival, an annual festival of arts and contemporary music in Bergen, released their...
Shell’s involvement in the arts targeted twice in one week
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Mar 13, 2013
It was an embarrassing week for all of those involved in Shell’s sponsorship of London’s cultural institutions. On the evening of Friday 1st March 2013, a group of singers and musicians called Shell Out Sounds made an unexpected musical intervention at the Southbank Centre, during the interval of a Shell-sponsored performance by members of the Berliner...
Photo story of Fares road blockades and resistance to Dana Gas
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Mar 11, 2013
Residents of the village of Fares near Aswan have suffered from collapsing homes, a flooded school and ruined orchards, after mysterious waters started rising out of the ground. The puddles and ponds started to appear after oil company Dana Gas began conducting seismic testing in the mango groves next to Fares. For several years, the...
التكالب على بترول مصر
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Mar 7, 2013
فى مقر نادى مرتفعات القطامية، وسط المروج الخُضر المشذبة وملعب الجولف، ناقش مديرون تنفيذيون من جنسيات مختلفة، جنبا إلى جنب مع مسئولين حكوميين اتفاقيات من شأنها تحديد مآل مليارات الدولارات؛ هل تستقر فى خزائن خاصة أم تذهب للخزانة العامة. تغييرات بسيطة فى عقد واحد قد تؤدى إلى إحداث فارق يزيد على الخمسة مليارات من الدولارات،...
Report: Shell gushed cash on Nigeria security
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Mar 5, 2013
Al Jazeera – August 20, 2012
Nigeria took 40 pct of Shell security spend in late 2000s-NGO
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Mar 5, 2013
Reuters – August 20, 2012
Shell paid Nigeria millions to guard oil facilities
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Mar 5, 2013
AFP – August 20, 2012
Shell spending millions of dollars on security in Nigeria, leaked data shows
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Mar 5, 2013
The Guardian – August 19, 2012
Shell ‘paying tens of millions to Nigerian security forces’
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Mar 5, 2013
The Telegraph – August 19, 2012
Shell suspends Arctic drilling for 2013
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Feb 28, 2013
We’re celebrating Shell’s announcement that the drilling programme in the Alaskan Arctic has been halted for the year! Here are a few perspectives on why this has happened and what’s going to happen next… 1) Company public relations describe this as an effort to ensure the drilling is safe: “Shell remains committed to building an...
The Work of Art in Critical Times – Open Day Symposium at Falmouth University, 8-9 March 2013
Feb 27, 2013
Platform will be participating in a symposium at Falmouth University on The Work of Art in Critical Times. Held at the Falmouth campus on 8-9th March, the symposium will explore questions such as ‘how can the work of artists and curators be effective in critical times?’, ‘what are the various cultural, political and environmental values...
‘Spatial Politics’ event, Royal Geographical Society, 8 March 2013
Feb 26, 2013
Radical geographer Doreen Massey – whom we hugely admire – gives a keynote speech at this event marking a new publication on her influence on theory, culture and politics. In the ‘Political Cultures’ workshop. Jane Trowell (Platform) is speaking alongside Dr Ian Shaw (Univ of Glasgow). This is at the RGS in central London, 11 –...
