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Un nouveau rapport interpelle BP et le Royaume-Uni sur des accords de gaz et d’armement avec le régime algérien
Un nouveau rapport interpelle BP et le Royaume-Uni sur des accords de gaz et d’armement avec le rĂ©gime algĂ©rien. Le rapport estime que les politiques extĂ©rieures britanniques et europĂ©ennes renforcent un rĂ©gime rĂ©pressif et corrompu, en donnant la prioritĂ© aux intĂ©rĂŞts des entreprises des Ă©nergies fossiles et Ă la main mise sur le gaz algĂ©rien,…
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Egypt lost $10 billion in corrupt gas contracts, as daily blackouts spread
Egypt lost $10 billion in gas revenues from 2005-2011, according to a report launched yesterday by EIPR and Platform. Contracts signed during the Mubarak years allowed the export of billions of cubic metres of underpriced gas to Jordan, Spain and Israeli-occupied Palestine. Some of the individuals behind these deals were convicted of corruption. EIPR and…
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Shell’s new direction needs to address Arctic investor risk and Niger Delta clean up
Thurs 13th March 2014 ** For immediate release ** Commenting on today’s Shell Management Meeting where CEO Ben van Beurden sets out new directions for the company, Sarah Shoraka, an oil and human rights campaigner from Platform said: Shell’s profit warning in January was exactly a decade on from the Shell Reserves Scandal of 2004.…
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Shell shareholders urged to force Arctic retreat
In the wake of plummeting profits, spiralling exploration costs and increasing scepticism among other oil majors about commercial prospects in the US Arctic, pension savers across the UK are urging Shell shareholders to call on the company to abandon plans for high-cost, high-risk drilling projects in the US Arctic Ocean. The project is a shareholder…
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Cameron slammed for more North Sea oil support & subsidies
Despite the UK pledging to phase out fossil fuel subsidies in 2012 along with other G20 nations, Cameron is announcing a whole new package of political support to the North Sea oil and gas industry.
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BP et le Royaume-Uni interpelés sur des accords de gaz et d’armement avec le régime algérien
BP et le Royaume-Uni interpelĂ©s sur des accords de gaz et d’armement avec le rĂ©gime algĂ©rien. En marge d’une confĂ©rence d’affaires sur les investissements en AlgĂ©rie, des militants appellent au respect des « droits humains » en AlgĂ©rie et s’opposent à « l’accaparement britannique du gaz algĂ©rien ». Lundi 10/02/2014 A distribuer immĂ©diatement Des photos de qualitĂ© « impression » et…
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BP & UK challenged over gas and arms deals with the Algerian regime
BP & UK challenged over gas and arms deals with the Algerian regime Demonstrators at business conference call for “Algerian human rights, not Britain’ gas grabs” Monday 10/02/2014 A protest took place this morning over Britain’s “gas grabs” and its complicity in human rights abuses in Algeria at an an investor conference in London attended…
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Hague heads to Azerbaijan amidst election controversy for “mega gas deal”
On Tuesday Foreign Secretary William Hague will be one of the first European politicians to visit Azerbaijan after Ilham Aliyev’s internationally condemned re-election as President. Hague will be there to attend the ceremony for the signing of a pipeline agreement that will see two trillion cubic meters of gas pumped from Azerbaijan to Europe. Hague…
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BP sponsorship provokes Tate Member resignations at AGM
Friday 6 December 2013 A number of fee-paying Tate Members will tonight publicly resign at the Members AGM at Tate Britain over the on-going controversy about the sponsorship relationship with oil giant BP. The resignations come after a larger group of Tate members attempted to raise the issue at the AGM last year, and sent…
