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Cambo, a turning point for the North Sea? – Shell departs and leaves many questions

Cambo, a turning point for the North Sea? – Shell departs and leaves many questions

  Seven twenty in the evening of Thursday 2nd December the news breaks[1]: Shell announces that they are withdrawing from their joint venture with the company Siccar Point that intends to exploit oil in the Cambo field West of Shetland. The announcement is as dramatic as it is unexpected. That same evening it is long...
From Oil Road to Fire Road – of oil pipelines, gas pipelines and climate chaos

From Oil Road to Fire Road – of oil pipelines, gas pipelines and climate chaos

Authored by James Marriott of Platform drawing on the collective experience of so many others in Platform and the multiple organisations we’ve collaborated with. Prompted by an invitation from the Climate Cultures Festival in Berlin to speak about Crude Britannia and The Oil Road, co-authored with Mika Minio-Paluello, I returned to the Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline...
How to Capture the Future and Store Capital - the plans for CCS in Liverpool Bay

How to Capture the Future and Store Capital – the plans for CCS in Liverpool Bay

You can see the future from Formby Beach. You don’t even need to climb up on one of steep sand dunes to catch a glimpse of it. It is out there yellow and white lights blinking in the grey dusk away to the North West. It has supplanted the red dots of the turbines on...

Workers Case Studies for debate on The Need for an Offshore Training Passport

Ahead of the Scottish Parliament debate on The Need for An Offshore Training Passport, Platform and Friends of the Earth Scotland shared case studies from offshore workers about their experiences with training in the energy sector, the enormous personal expense in time and money as well as the barriers this represents to efforts to transition...

Offshore Training Passport Debate Briefing for MSPs

A Platform and Friends of the Earth briefing for MSPs ahead of a debate in the Scottish Parliament on the need for an Offshore Training Passport. Friends of the Earth Scotland and Platform believe an Offshore Training Passport is essential to ensure a Just Transition for workers in the energy sector. The lack of cross-sector...
Petrol Panic II – taking on the barriers to climate action

Petrol Panic II – taking on the barriers to climate action

Week two of the Petrol Panic – Monday 4th October. It looks like the pumps are working as normal in the BP petrol station at 232 Priory Road in Anfield, Liverpool, fed by road tankers filled at the gantries of Stanlow Refinery, 12 miles to south on the banks of the Mersey. But the Petrol...
Profiting from the Panic – how to use a squeeze in the oil flow to financial advantage

Profiting from the Panic – how to use a squeeze in the oil flow to financial advantage

Petrol Panic grips the nation. A second week of fuel shortages on the forecourts threatens to hobble the economy, or at least erode support for the Tories in their heartlands and overshadow the Conservative Party Conference. Will queues at the petrol pumps in Manchester crowd the prime minister’s show? The Shell stations in Bolton were...
Training costs: a barrier to transition for offshore workers

Training costs: a barrier to transition for offshore workers

In September 2020, Platform released a report, OFFSHORE: Oil and gas workers’ views on industry conditions and the energy transition, in collaboration with Friends of the Earth Scotland and Greenpeace UK. The report was the culmination of the first large-scale survey of offshore oil and gas workers in the UK, surveying 1,383 workers (approximately 5%...
PRESS RELEASE Training costs chaos blocks oil workers moving to renewables: Government must meet workers' demands to remove hurdles

PRESS RELEASE Training costs chaos blocks oil workers moving to renewables: Government must meet workers’ demands to remove hurdles

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   TRAINING COSTS CHAOS BLOCKS OIL WORKERS MOVING TO RENEWABLES: GOVERNMENT MUST MEET WORKERS’ DEMANDS TO REMOVE HURDLES   Survey of offshore workers reveals training costs averaging over £1,800 per year. Success of the UK’s transition to renewables currently depends on workers’ ability to pay to duplicate existing training certificates.  The UK...
Petition for a Just Transition in the North Sea

Petition for a 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 and gas 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, re-training and re-skilling, safeguarding worker rights...
Taking Control: Building oil and gas workers' power in the energy transition

Taking Control: Building oil and gas workers’ power in the energy transition

Do you work in the offshore oil and gas industry? Have you worked in the industry in the past? Join our workshops to determine what a just energy transition looks like and learn how we can fight for our demands.  First workshop: Saturday 13 March 2021 10:00am – 1:00pm over Zoom. Our report, OFFSHORE: Oil...

Press Release: Councils suffer £2bn hit to pension funds due to oil investments

New analysis reveals that £1.75 billion was wiped off UK council pension funds due to their oil investments crashing over the past three years. Platform London commissioned Transition Economics to conduct the analysis [1], which showed that * The combined investments by 56 local government pension funds into nine leading oil companies, including BP and...