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$450 million in US ‘development’ finance for fracking in Patagonia
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Sep 12, 2019
The US development finance corporation OPIC has just loaned $450 million to a large fracking project in Argentinian Patagonia – despite objections from eight US senators, Indigenous rights concerns, and the climate crisis. The two loans will fund Vista Oil & Gas and Aleph Midstream (respectively sister company and subsidiary to London-listed Riverstone Energy) to...
More Like Texas: US state involvement in the Vaca Muerta mega-project in Argentina
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Sep 12, 2019
Read the briefing (pdf) – Leer en castellano (pdf) As US Energy Secretary Rick Perry said in June 2018, the aim of US foreign energy policy in Argentina was to help the country become “more like Texas” by bringing US business to work on unlocking Patagonia’s shale oil and gas reserves. The US State Energy...
Government issues nearly £2 bn for fossil fuels abroad… and 0.0005 as much for renewables
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Jul 3, 2019
New data shows: last year the UK government supported oil, gas and coal projects in other countries to a tune of £1.8 billion – through UK Export Finance (UKEF), a government department that purports to support UK businesses operating elsewhere. We’ve analysed UKEF’s annual list of loans and financial guarantees, and here’s some of the...
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...
Comunicado: No al fracking por empresas británicas en Patagonia
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May 22, 2019
En el día de hoy, una delegación de representantes del gobierno y del sector empresarial argentino se encuentra en Londres para tratar inversiones en fracking. Argentina Solidarity Campaign, Reclaim the Power y Fossil Free London se reúnen para oponerse a la expansión del fracking en Argentina, y al rol de las empresas y el gobierno...
Statement: don’t frack Patagonia
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May 22, 2019
Today a delegation of Argentinian officials and businesses is in London to talk about fracking investments. Argentina Solidarity Campaign, Reclaim the Power, and Fossil Free London are coming together to protest the expansion of fracking in Argentina and the role of the UK Government and British companies in this venture. From Lancashire to Sussex communities...
UK-Argentina fracking talks targeted by protest
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May 22, 2019
For immediate release – 22 May 2019 Platform / Argentina Solidarity Campaign / Reclaim the Power / Fossil Free London Contact: Anna Markova +447942044472 [email protected] Supplementary images available: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b596qa3dxfky2pj/AAC5sqsJBeDBcKiPP2O5aeR_a?dl=0 Protestors’ statement in full: https://platformlondon.org/2019/05/22/statement-dont-frack-patagonia/ Talks between UK and Argentinian officials on investments in shale oil and gas became the target of a protest by climate...
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...
PHOTOS: ‘Fracking rig’ & 10-metre projection protests fossil fuel finance on doorstep of UK government export body
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Nov 30, 2018
Contact: Eliana Harrigan, Fossil Free London, +44 7541507517. Anna Markova, Platform, [email protected], +447942044472 Images available, credit Alban Grosdidier. As G20 governments gear up for their summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the climate talks are set to get underway in Katowice, the UK’s export finance department (UKEF) was hit by protests yesterday over its financing of oil...
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...
UKEF: don’t frack Patagonia, don’t fund fossil fuels
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Nov 27, 2018
The UK government pledges billions of pounds every year in finance for UK businesses abroad through UK Export Finance (UKEF). In 2017 UKEF announced a new £1 billion credit line for UK businesses working in Argentina, with then minister Greg Hands stressing that “the UK’s expertise in areas like infrastructure, green energy and healthcare” were...
To Bruce Mackenzie – For these and future memories
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Nov 27, 2018
In the flurry of a Tuesday afternoon, I receive an unexpected e-mail from Vicki Carroll. The header has your name in it Bruce, and I know instinctively within an instant what the message holds. I hover a while and then open the text to read the inevitable. You have stepped over, passed through the...
