BP and the British Museum: Activists disrupt sponsored Iraq exhibition launch
Campaigners say the British Museum is allowing BP to ‘whitewash’ its involvement in Iraq in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion.
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Revealed: The revolving door between Westminster and the fossil fuel industry
Public interest is at risk when successive officials and elected representatives leave the corridors of power to join the fossil fuel lobby. Molly Scott Cato writes.
BP strengthens ties to abusive regimes with new China deal
Thin trade deals and cultural sponsorship allow BP to deflect attention from awkward questions about human rights
How we are tackling climate change by taking over the British Museum
By accepting BP sponsorship the British Museum gives the company a social licence to operate
How the coal lobby is already undermining the Paris climate summit
Our governments care more about the concerns of big business than scientists’ warnings about climate change
Killings, cancer, corruption and Azerbaijan: Eurovision in the Islamic Republic of BP
Greg Palast investigates the role of BP in the regime of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, a corrupt regime which kills its opponents.
Cameron ditches “Vote blue go green” and tells BP: ‘Drill, baby, drill!’
David Cameron drilled a further nail in the coffin of the ‘greenest government ever’ myth, with his support for BP’s North Sea oil drilling plans, reports Joss Garman.
Coalition in danger of being ‘oiliest government ever’
The Cameron administration has had firm aspirations to be the ‘greenest government ever’, but the reality is turning out to be quite different. Alongside having a transport secretary who advocates gas-guzzling changes to public policy and continuing to encourage road-building in a time of austerity, they have announced that the person almost certain to head up the coalition’s environemt and energy policy is a former BP policy advisor.
High Court green-lights legal challenge to coalition oil drilling plan
A High Court Judge yesterday green-lighted a far-reaching legal challenge that will have significant implications for ministers’ plans for new deep sea oil drilling off Scotland’s coast.
Big business oppose cuts – to greenhouse gas emissions
Big business is supportive of many of the public service spending cuts. But UK companies, and the business associations that represent them, are lobbying hard to delay cuts in another area where they could make a positive difference: greenhouse gas emissions. Europe-based companies, including BP and Eon, have been systematically supporting members of the Senate who obstruct action on climate change and these links were revealed in a recent report by Climate Action Network Europe.