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Is BP really on route to being a net zero firm?
Fossil fuel giant BP last week made three announcements that resulted in downgrading £ off the value of its oil and gas assets - around 20% of its market capitalisation.…
BP: Very much business as usual
BP, the British oil major which produces million barrels of oil per day and brought in $ billion in profit in 2018, has been running a PR campaign under the…
The fossil fuel industry is terrified of students
Cambridge Zero Carbon The Guardian's report that fossil fuel companies BP and BHP interfered with the University of Cambridge's decision to reject divestment in June 2018 underlines two things we…
Thousands march for climate action and against dirty energy
Art Not Oil protest BP's sponsorship of the Tate Britain. Image: Art Not Oil. Thousands of people took to the streets of London today to call for action on climate…
BP reach for the pinkwash with “LGBT Careers Event”
A BP flyer found in London. Image uses photo from Marine Photobank. We face an onslaught of unpleasant, greenwashing advertising from fossil fuel companies. Shell and their "We'll keep the…
Why we disrupted Tony Hayward's award at the University of Birmingham
by Tom Wragg I was part of a group of students who disrupted the talk Tony Hayward gave at Birmingham this week. Tony Hayward has a record of disgraceful actions…
Extract: The Oil Road – journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London
With the kind permission of the authors, Bright Green is publishing two excerpts from “The Oil Road – Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London”, a travelogue…
London 2012 has turned into one very big, very cruel, corporate joke
Stuart Roger I hate to put a downer on things as we reach the halfway point of London 2012. Like many people, I have spent the past week pinned to…
No shock doctrine for Libya
To say that the West's involvement in Libya was all about oil was always far too simplistic. For any country to commit military force, a number of people must conclude…
Gulf Voices Silenced as BP try their hardest to move on from an awful year
By Matthew Butcher - reporting from inside yesterday's BP AGM It hasn’t been the easiest year for BP or their shareholders. First their was the disastrous Deepwater Disaster which killed…