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  • The Oil Road – reviews, interviews and analysis

     The Oil Road has been getting an incredible response from the press, blogs and activists alike. We’ve cobbled together a selection of the best quotes from reviews with links to  the full articles. “An elegantly written travel book…a distinctive blend of travelogue, reportage and history…will make you think the next time you fill the tank”…

    The Oil Road – reviews, interviews and analysis

  • 26 Oct 2012 admin
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    A secret military subsidy – pirates and oil corps

    New Internationalist featured a blog from Platform on our new briefing A Secret Subsidy: Oil companies, the Navy and the response to piracy. Here’s what we wrote: This week the Combating Piracy Conference has been taking place in London, behind closed doors. This industry-organised event brings together representatives from European Union, NATO and oil and…

    A secret military subsidy – pirates and oil corps

  • 26 Sep 2012 admin

    Divide and fall? Total criticise Arctic oil drilling

    As Andy Rowell wrote this morning, “this is big news”. Total are the first major oil company to publicly state that companies should not be drilling for oil in the Arctic. A divide amongst the oil majors will only increase pressure on companies, like Shell, who despite having to abandon this years drilling plans, still…

    Divide and fall? Total criticise Arctic oil drilling

  • 24 Sep 2012 admin

    “An unexpectedly engaging tale” – The Oil Road reviewed in the FT

    This weekend the Financial Times featured a great essay by Ed Crooks on some accounts of the oil industry. We were thrilled that Crooks led with Fuel on the Fire and Platform’s new book The Oil Road, as well as Jeff Rubin’s The Big Flatline. Fuel on the Fire, published in 2011, reveals the oil…

    “An unexpectedly engaging tale” – The Oil Road reviewed in the FT

  • 20 Sep 2012 admin

    MPs find government support for Arctic drilling ‘reckless’

    The UK government’s support for Arctic Oil drilling was labelled ‘reckless’ today by the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC). The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has been quietly supporting oil companies’ Arctic ambitions but this is the first time there has been public scrutiny of the department’s actions in relation to Arctic drilling. The Committee published…

    MPs find government support for Arctic drilling ‘reckless’

  • 7 Aug 2012 admin

    The Oil Road – Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London

    The new Paperback edition has a brand new Afterword… “★★★★★…The Oil Road opens the lid on the often-shady energy economy, weaving absorbing travel reportage into powerful investigative journalism…. If you want to know why oil matters, read this book.” – Time Out (book of the week) “An elegantly written travel book…will make you think the next…

    The Oil Road – Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London

  • Que Sera Sera: the UK Government and Arctic oil

    Last week ministers appeared in front of the Environmental Audit Committee to defend their position on Arctic oil extraction. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Polar Regions Unit states that while it is concerned with “the effects of climate change on the Arctic” they also recognise “the potential of the Arctic to strengthen energy security” –…

    Que Sera Sera: the UK Government and Arctic oil