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    13 Jan 2006 admin
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    Signing away Iraq’s democracy

    This report was first published in Platform’s carbon web newsletter, issue 3. As Carbon Web goes to press, Iraqi politicians are still haggling over the key roles in forming a new government. The outcome will be closely watched not only by Iraqis, but as a recent PLATFORM report reveals, by multinational oil companies, hoping to…

  • 6 Jan 2006 admin

    Turbo-Charging Investor Sovereignty: Investment Agreements and Corporate Colonialism

    [gview file=”https://platformlondon.org/app/uploads/2012/02/turbo_charge_invstr_sov-1.pdf”] How draconian legal agreements have guaranteed corporate profits in the Caucasus at the expense of host countries, and are set to be applied in Iraq. Jointly written with the Corner House, and published as a chapter of Destroy and Profit: Wars, Disasters and Corporations, by Focus on the Global South.

  • Article
    6 Jan 2006 admin

    Signing away Iraqs democracy

    PLATFORM’s new report exposes the true cost to Iraq of the oil majors’ agenda As Carbon Web goes to press, Iraqi politicians are still haggling over the key roles in forming a new government. The outcome will be closely watched not only by Iraqis, but as a recent PLATFORM report reveals, by multinational oil companies, hoping to…

  • 22 Nov 2005 admin

    Crude Designs: The rip-off of Iraq’s oil wealth (Italian)

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  • 22 Nov 2005 admin

    Crude Designs: The rip-off of Iraq’s oil wealth (Arabic)

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  • 22 Nov 2005 admin
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    Crude Designs: The rip-off of Iraq’s oil wealth

    Also available in Arabic and Italian. Control of Iraq's future oil wealth is being handed to multinational oil companies through long-term contracts that will cost Iraq hundreds of billions of dollars. 'Crude Designs: The Rip-Off of Iraq's Oil Wealth' reveals that current Iraqi oil policy will allocate the development of at least 64% of Iraq’s reserves…

    Crude Designs: The rip-off of Iraq’s oil wealth
  • Article
    6 Oct 2005 admin

    Iraq Constitution lays ground for oilfield selloff

    As Iraq goes to the polls in this month’s referendum on the draft Constitution, the fate of the country’s oil reserves has once again escaped public scrutiny – despite their central importance to Iraq’s future economy. According to Oil Ministry officials, contracts will be signed with foreign oil companies during the first nine months of…

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    1 Oct 2005 admin
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    Nigeria Ten Years On

    10 years on from Saro-Wiwa the Niger Delta remains one of the world‘s most unstable oil provinces, despite US-UK ambitions. – This report was first published in Platform’s Carbon web newsletter, issue 2.   Ten years ago on 10th November, 9 men were hanged in a squalid courtyard at Port Harcourt Prison, Delta State, Nigeria.…

  • Article
    26 Jul 2005 admin

    Remember Saro-Wiwa

    This report was first published in Platform's carbon web newsletter, issue 1.   On 10th November 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his colleagues were executed by the Nigerian dictatorship following their campaign against the devastating environmental impacts of oil companies – including Shell and Chevron – in the Niger Delta. Ten years on and…

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    26 Jul 2005 admin
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    Development aid or oil industry subsidy?

    This report was first published in Platform’s Carbon web newletter, issue 1.   As the G8 meeting has brought Africa and climate change to the fore, a report by Platform Research reveals that British development aid is being spent on oil projects that exacerbate both climate change and poverty. ‘Pumping Poverty’ details how the government’s…