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Picture This – A Portrait of 25 Years of BP Sponsorship
Download the report, or browse online below. How bad does a company have to be before an arts organisation refuses to be associated with it or take its money? How much outcry does a sponsor’s primary business have to provoke before a line is drawn? What kind of critique should send alarm signals up and…
24 Jun 2014 admin -
Polluted Promises: how Shell failed to clean up Ogoniland
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…
27 May 2014 admin -
Le Renforcement Des Dictatures – Accaparement du gaz par le Royaume-Uni et les violations des droits humains en Algérie
Télécharger ce rapport BP a signé sa première joint-venture en Algérie en 1995, trois ans seulement après le coup d’état militaire qui a annulé les premières élections législatives en Algérie depuis l’indépendance du joug colonial français. Le contrat a été signé alors qu’une guerre civile brutale faisait rage, avec la violence systématique de l’État et…
28 Apr 2014 admin -
Infographic: Culture Clash – Arts & Oil Money
Download as a pdf At the end of 2011, BP announced a £10 million sponsorship deal for four of London’s flagship cultural institutions over a five year period. The Culture Clash infographic shows pie charts of the four institutions – Tate, British Museum, Royal Opera House and the National Portrait gallery and breaks down their…
26 Apr 2014 admin -
تقرير يكشف عن خسائر تقدر على الأقل بـ 10 مليار دولار نتيجة لفساد صفقات تصدير الغاز في عصر مبارك
خسرت مصر نحو 10 مليار دولار من إيرادات الغاز من 2005 إلى2010، وفقا لتقرير صدر اليوم عن المبادرة المصرية للحقوق الشخصية و بلاطفورم بعنوان “فساد تعاقدات الغاز في عصر مبارك“، فقد سمحت العقود المبرمة في عصر مبارك بتصدير مليارات الأمتار المكعبة من الغاز إلى الأردن وأسبانيا وإسرائيل بأسعار بخسة. واستخدم تقرير المبادرة المصرية الصادر مؤخرا…
13 Mar 2014 admin -
Frozen Future: Shell’s ongoing gamble in the US Arctic
Royal Dutch Shell stands at a strategic crossroads. Its response to the reserves scandal in 2004 has been a global reserves replacement hunt through a programme of relentless capital expenditure, including an investment in US Arctic Ocean leases in the mid-2000s that dwarfed other companies’ spending. Shell’s US offshore Arctic plans have been a failure…
25 Feb 2014 anna -
Perenco: Oil Production At Any Cost
Download the report or browse online below. Who are Perenco? Perenco are an independent Anglo-French oil and gas company. Its headquarters are located in London but it also has offices in Paris and the Bahamas. Founded by Hubert Perrodo (1944-2006), the company is now run by CEO, Jean-Michel Jacoulot, and still partly belongs to his…
17 Feb 2014 admin -
Reinforcing Dictatorships – Britain’s Gas Grab and Human Rights Abuses in Algeria
UK foreign policy aims to lock North African natural gas into the European and British grids and is heavily influenced by arms and fossil fuel interests. As a result, the Conservative government has courted the Algerian regime and supported arms sales between British companies and Algeria as well as encouraging an expanded role for BP.…
9 Feb 2014 admin -
Energy Subsidies in the UK – Submission to the Environmental Audit Committee inquiry
In April 2013, the Environmental Audit Committee launched an inquiry into Energy Subsidies in the UK. This inquiry was planning to “investigate what should constitute ‘subsidy’, the extent of energy subsidies in the UK for nuclear energy, fossil fuel energy and renewables, and what the Government should be doing to identify and eliminate those subsidies…
22 Oct 2013 admin
