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Just Transition
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May 26, 2020
Just Transition in the North Sea Platform’s Just Transition campaign seeks a well-managed phase out of oil and gas production in the North Sea. This includes preventing future oil licensing rounds, halting fossil fuel subsidies and, most importantly, ensuring that Just Transition measures are implemented during the phase out (i.e. large-scale job creation in...
“Yes Shell bribed me.” 24 years after the execution of the Ogoni 9, key witness tells court.
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Nov 10, 2019
Today is 10th November 2019, 24th anniversary of the judicial murders of the Ogoni 9. Due to unstoppable widows of the Ogoni 9, new evidence has come to light on Shell’s complicity in their arrest and corruption of their trial. The nine men were elders and community leaders from the Niger Delta who had been...
Of Turmeric and Truth – ‘Fuel for Thought’ and the struggle in Ogoni
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Jun 12, 2019
This blog is co-authored by Andy Rowell (Oil Change International) and James Marriott (Platform) Lazarus Tamana, Europe Coordinator of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), holds up a small round plastic container, an inch deep, two inches across. It is filled with a rich yellow-ochre coloured powder. “This was grown...
North Sea oil: The unmentionable climate emergency scandal… until now
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May 15, 2019
We’re in a climate emergency – so why is the UK aiming to extract 20 more billions of barrels of oil?! Our research, out today, shows just how far out of touch with reality this plan is – and what the UK needs to do instead, not only to protect the climate, but also workers’...
Sea Change: Climate emergency, jobs and Managing the Phase-out of UK Oil & Gas Extraction
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May 15, 2019
This report reveals why UK must stop drilling new oil and gas fields in the North Sea in order to meet Paris climate commitments – and how the transition away from fossil fuels can create decent jobs and revive UK industry. Published by Platform, Oil Change International, and Friends of the Earth Scotland. Supported by...
Report: UK oil and gas drilling plans incompatible with responding to climate emergency
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May 15, 2019
Wednesday 15 May 2019 Contact: Anna Markova // Platform // [email protected] // 07942044472 Greg Muttitt // Oil Change International // [email protected] // 07508 421 527 Connal Hughes // Friends of the Earth Scotland // [email protected] // 0131 243 2715 Download report The UK’s oil and gas drilling plans are incompatible with responding to the climate...
Compelled to Be Wise in the Tent that Can Hear
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May 10, 2019
This is a Guest Blog by Will Essilfie, educator and researcher, on Platform’s event ‘The Tent that Can Hear‘. In this event, Platform looked back at ecological issues in London in 1989 when we made the ‘Tree of Life, City of Life’ project, and forward to 2049. This was a 30th anniversary return as the...
Iraq, BP and the British Museum – look upon these works and hang our heads in shame
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Mar 14, 2019
I had read in advance the briefing that Culture Unstained had put out to accompany the planned action. The protest at the British Museum was to be against BP’s sponsorship of the exhibition ‘I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria’, a display of treasures from the land of Iraq. I read lines...
Silence in the Storm – Business and No Deal Brexit
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Feb 28, 2019
The storm in Westminster rages so ferociously that at times it’s hard to hear ourselves think. There is second by second coverage of the House of Commons and Downing Street from every conceivable angle. Backbenchers so obscure that we’ve never heard of them before are dragged through the TV studios and closely cross-questioned. Others...
G20 summit: Major oil spill in Argentina leads to suspension of YPF/Schlumberger licence
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Nov 28, 2018
Photos, video available – see below. Ahead of this week’s G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentinian authorities have suspended the licence of a YPF/Schlumberger partnership at a shale well in the Vaca Muerta shale province. The suspension of the licence follows a major well blow-out at Bandurrias Sur block in Patagonia in October that contaminated...
A Love of the Surface of the Earth – beyond the petroleum world
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Oct 17, 2018
Quite suddenly the light has gone. We are left to complete our voyage in the growing dark. The sea charts cease to become legible, the OS map strains the eyes. The words of that fount of all Thames Estuary sailing advice, Charlie Stock, are ringing in our ears ‘When night sailing, do not use...
Victory at Leith Hill! Divest Fracking! Resisting sites of speculation
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Oct 12, 2018
This piece was written before the news of the draconian jail sentences passed on those opposing fracking in Preston, Lancashire … but that bitter ruling does not destroy the reality that shortly before that decision we celebrated a Victory! The News of an Amazing Victory! We wrote of it as follows … The permission to...
