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The Carbon Web
This is our poster we made of the carbon web. [gview file=”https://www.ultimateholdingcompany.co.uk/~wwwplatf/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/36-the-carbonweb.pdf” height=”620px” width=”580px”] Open publication – Free publishing – More activism
26 Sep 2011 admin -
From Glass Box to Smoke Filled Room – How BP secretly renegotiated its Iraqi oil contract, and how Iraqis will pay the price
During the second half of 2009, Iraq held two auctions of its largest oilfields, awarding them to multinational companies such as BP, Shell and ExxonMobil to operate under 20-year contracts. Between them the oilfields account for over 60% of Iraq’s reserves. The contracts were service contracts rather than the companies’ preferred production sharing agreements, which…
30 Jul 2011 admin -
Death knell or crying wolf?
This briefing by Platform and Greenpeace examines George Osborne’s changes to North Sea tax, and how the oil industry might not have it as bad as they are making it out to be. It then considers ways in which the Chancellor may respond to the industry’s campaign against the changes.
28 May 2011 anna -
Dirty Money – Corporate greenwash and RBS coal finance
All over the world, diverse groups from community activists to schoolchildren, small businesses to faith-based networks, are starting to take action on climate change. Big business is following suit, but often with tactics that bring their integrity into question. Climate change is being used as to create a new kind of brand identity, without any…
20 Mar 2011 admin -
Off The Deep End – Foreign Policy and the dash for offshore oil and gas
This Platform report provides in-depth analysis of these trends and alerts policy makers to the environmental and safety concerns around present and planned offshore drilling in the UK North Sea and the Falkland Islands. It exposes significant capacity shortfalls in government inspection agencies and highlights key areas where better regulatory oversight is urgently required to…
10 Jan 2011 anna -
Liberate Tate Collected Works 2010 – Postcard Set
A set of eight postcards capturing the key performance moments of 2010 in Liberate Tate's artistic interventions in oil sponsorship. The beautiful images in high quality print postcards include performance details and quotes from key commentators in the debate around oil sponsorship of the arts. The stories of intervention into the issue travel around…
30 Dec 2010 admin -
No Condition is Permanent, 19 Poets on Climate Justice and Change
No Condition is Permanent features writing and poetry specially selected and written for PLATFORM’s season C Words: Carbon, Climate, Capital, Culture, which took place at Arnolfini, Bristol, October and November 2009. It takes its title from the packed night of performance and music which took place on November 7th in Arnolfini’s main gallery. C Words was a…
7 Nov 2010 jane -
A Bank for the Future: Maximising public investment in a low-carbon economy
The recent financial crisis cost the UK £129 billion in annual GDP and increased the structural deficit by £93 billion. The initial budget cuts announced by the coalition government demonstrate the pain this is causing to public services. The UK can’t afford another meltdown, yet short term, high risk, carbon intensive investments are still business…
25 Jun 2010 anna -
Licence To Spill
This short publication looks at how oil companies need and use sponsorship of the arts.
20 Jun 2010 admin
