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Egyptian gas, Mubarak’s corruption and Israeli power – Aljazeera documentary about Platform research
Mubarak and Israeli businessmen made enormous profits at the expense of the Egyptian people, by exporting underpriced gas. Platform’s research into corrupt gas exports from Egypt to Jordan, Spain and the Israelis led to this Al-Jazeera documentary. Over $10 billion were lost, as blackouts became increasingly normal. Now that Egypt can no longer export gas,…
30 Nov 2014 admin -
Interviews about the Living Memorial to Ken Saro-Wiwa
At an event on 22 May – the 20th anniversary of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s arrest we showed this video. There are interviews with: sculptor Sokari Douglas Camp talking about the living memorial and Celestine AkpoBari from Social Action in the Niger Delta, talking about the bus returning to Ogoniland.
23 Jun 2014 admin -
The Oil Road on Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle bring The Oil Road to life with sound and music. Words provided by Platform’s Anna Galkina and James Marriott.
3 Dec 2012 admin -
Tales of Transition
James Marriott talks about Platform’s new book The Oil Road in advance of the Transition Network Conference taking place at Battersea Arts Centre. James will be inspiring people with stories of his travels from the oil fields of the Caspian to the refineries and financial centres of Northern Europe. He will also consider how we…
13 Sep 2012 admin -
Network Africa interview with Platform on Shell’s human rights abuses
Network Africa, the BBC World Service’s flagship programme broadcasting across the continent, interviewed Platform’s Ben Amunwa about the new report which implicates Shell in a decade of new human rights abuses in Nigeria. Shell declined to attend the interview.
7 Oct 2011 admin -
Report ties Shell to human rights abuse, environmental destruction in Niger Delta
US radio station Free Speech Radio News interviews Platform's Ben Amunwa on the new report, Counting the Cost, which implicates Shell in new human rights abuses in Nigeria.
5 Oct 2011 admin -
Shell fuelled conflict in the Niger Delta
BBC Business Daily interviewed Platform in detail about its new report on Shell’s human rights abuses in the Niger Delta. Shell were invited to the interview but refused. The BBC World Service broadcast the report to hundred millions of listeners worldwide. The report, titled ‘Counting the Cost’ implicates Shell in cases of serious violence in…
4 Oct 2011 admin -
Shell funds militant clashes in Nigeria
CBC Radio Canada broadcast an interview with the author of Platform’s new report, Counting the Cost, on Shell’s human rights abuses in Nigeria.
4 Oct 2011 admin
