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Compassionate Organising
Exploring barriers to participation in climate action faced by folks who experience racial and/or social marginalisation.
11 Apr 2023 emma -
Europe’s Gas Grab – the Euro-Caspian Mega Pipeline
In this illustrated leaflet we follow the route of the Euro-Caspian Mega Pipeline – meeting people who are talking out against the pipeline and the impact it will have on their lives. The leaflet joins the dots between climate change, human rights abuses and fuel poverty. It talks about the impacts of the pipeline in…
15 Aug 2013 emma -
How fossil-fueled is your university? Take part in our research!
Many UK universities support the fossil fuel industry both directly and indirectly through their research, their endowments and investments and their partnerships with companies like BP and Shell. We are campaigning to expose and sever these links – and we are asking for your help! People & Planet and Platform are trying to collect as…
1 Jul 2013 anna -
Europe’s Keystone XL? The Planned Mega-pipeline
Behind the closed doors of company boardrooms and government offices a mega-pipeline is being planned and promoted. This huge piece of infrastructure would carry gas over 4,000 kilometres from the Caspian Sea to central Europe, and in the process would lock Europe into gas dependency for at least the next 35 years. Such a project…
27 Jun 2013 emma -
Shell: Global Mega-Frackers
This briefing compiles numerous examples of Shell fracking around the world, but does not claim to be an exhaustive list. By timing the release with Yoko Ono’s involvement in the Meltdown Festival at the Shell-sponsored Southbank Centre, we hope to: Increase awareness of the enormous role that Shell is playing in expanding fracking operations all…
14 Jun 2013 Kevin -
Russian Roulette: International Oil Company Risk in the Russian Arctic
International Oil Companies (IOCs) face pressure from investors to achieve a positive reserves replacement ratio. With governments around the world increasingly asserting control over natural resources in their territory, as well as conventional oil reserves dwindling, the Arctic is one of the frontier areas targeted by IOCs. In Russia, IOCs have entered a number of…
21 Apr 2013 anna -
Take the Money and Run? Some positions on ethics, business sponsorship and making art
Is any money free from exerting an influence on the artist or art it enables? Is all money equally ‘good’ or ‘bad’, regardless of the source? In this Live Art Development Agency Study Room Guide, Jane Trowell from Platform has selected some key texts that are useful in helping to position yourself ethically with regard…
16 Apr 2013 Kevin -
Making a Killing: Oil Companies, Tax Avoidance and Subsidies
Oil company mega-profits are being made at the expense of the public purse, as youth centres shut, hospitals struggle and the queues at food banks grow. Companies like BP & Shell receive major government support including direct subsidies and military and diplomatic services, but seem to pay very small amounts of UK tax in comparison…
16 Feb 2013 Kevin -
Repeated Misadventures: Key questions for Shell on its Alaskan Arctic programme
On 8th January 2013, the U.S. Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, announced a review of the 2012 Alaskan Arctic offshore drilling programme “to review practices and identify challenges as well as lessons learned.” The review to be completed within 60 days will focus on the successive setbacks encountered by Shell during 2012. These include its failure…
14 Jan 2013 anna -
Russian Roulette – the BP and Rosneft deal
On 22nd October BP plc announced it had agreed heads of terms to sell its 50% stake in TNK-BP to Rosneft. BP’s official announcement of the proposed deal refers to Rosneft’s 2011 oil reserve replacement ratio of 127% and dividend of 25% of IFRS net income. However, there are a number of areas of concern…
5 Nov 2012 james
