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BP using crackdown to steamroll unpopular project in Egypt
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Jul 21, 2014
BP is back in Cairo. The multinational never quite left, but intense community opposition put its flagship North Alexandra project on hold during the last three years. With former military leader Abdel Fattah El-Sisi firmly installed in the President’s chair, now BP has seen an opportunity to restart drilling and construction. CEO Bob Dudley was...
‘Picture This’ report extract – BP’s ongoing Gulf Coast disaster & ‘artful dodging’
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Jul 1, 2014
Last week we published a critical new report ‘Picture This – A Portrait of 25 years of BP Sponsorship‘, timed with the opening of the National Portrait Gallery London’s new ‘BP Portrait Award’ exhibition. In a series of blogs, we are featuring extracts from the report. Today’s blog shares devastating testimony and analysis from two...
‘Picture This’ extract – 25 years of BP Sponsorship, year by year
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Jun 27, 2014
Today we focus on the section of our report that outlined BP’s track record 1989 – 2014, the period of BP’s sponsorship of the National Portrait Gallery’s Portrait Award. Here’s the whole report. We have pulled out 25 examples of BP’s worst environmental and human rights disasters and also evidence of dodgy and backroom deals...
New report ‘Picture This’ on the BP Portrait Award – extract on National Portrait Gallery
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Jun 25, 2014
Our new report Picture This – A Portrait of 25 years of BP sponsorship is in 5 parts. Each part addresses a different aspect of the issue, and should cause deep concern in any institution’s corporate sponsorship department that wants to operate ethically. Even though its publication is triggered by the 2014 BP Portrait Award...
Shell in the High Court today
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Jun 20, 2014
Lazarus Tamana Coordinator of MOSOP Europe writes from court today. Today is the preliminary judgement in the case brought by the people of Bodo in Ogoni by legal firm Leigh Day & Co against Shell. The judgement will form the legal issues that will be part of the trial expected to take place at the High Court in London in...
Shell chief to visit Nigeria in effort to clean up oil spills
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Jun 1, 2014
Terry Macalister, The Guardian
Stop playing games with Ogoni people, activists tell Shell
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May 29, 2014
Ben Ezeamalu, Premium Times, Nigeria
Shell’s ‘polluted promises’ in Nigeria means it’s time for #ActionSaroWiwa
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May 28, 2014
This week sees the publication of our latest briefing Polluted Promises, How Shell failed to clean up in Ogoniland, based on research done on the ground in the Niger Delta in October 2013 by our campaigner Sarah Shoraka, with allies from the Delta. The new report and research was covered in the Daily Mail yesterday....
Polluted Promises: how Shell failed to clean up Ogoniland
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May 27, 2014
Download the report or browse online below. Shell is responsible for a toxic legacy in the Niger Delta. People are dying, sick, can’t feed themselves and have no clean water because Shell destroyed their environment by drilling for oil. UNEP researched the destruction, publishing a report in 2011. The report concluded that Shell had not...
20 year’s since Ken Saro Wiwa’s arrest – 20 years of Shell’s inaction
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May 22, 2014
Twenty years ago today, Ken Saro-Wiwa was arrested for the final time. Eighteen months later he and eight others were dead; hanged by the Nigerian military government on trumped up charges, for campaigning against Shell’s destruction of their home. Today is also Shell’s London AGM – a chance to foreground the voices of those still...
