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The death of Deep Horizon
The Natural Resources Defense Council has a multitude of interesting information about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on its web site including an animation of the daily movement of the slick. And...
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Torrey Canyon
The Torrey Canyon disaster was the largest shipwreck to that date and resulted in large sections of the British and French coastlines being polluted by crude oil. It was 1967. They didn’t know what to...
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Deep Horizon isn’t over
Naomi Klein describes how the Deep Horizon crisis isn’t over just because we can’t see the oil gushing. She spent a week on a research ship looking at the impact of the dispersed oil on ecosystems....
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Tradable Energy Quotas: a solution for peak oil and climate change?
Beth Stratford edited the recent report on Tradable Energy Quotas for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil Peak Oil on Wikipedia). She is Energy and Finance Campaigner for Friends of the...
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Sights and Sounds of Bitumen Extraction
“Changeable Places brings together individuals from different contexts working with stories about particular places of environmental sensitivity.” The post Sights and Sounds of Bitumen Extraction in...
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Brief to make KEYSTONE XL an international issue
Brief for a campaign extension Bill McKibben‘s team along with a number of other NGOs and activist groups in the US and Canada have been campaigning to stop Obama signing off the Keystone XL project....
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Shell accused of fuelling violence in Nigeria
PLATFORM continue to focus on the issues of corporate responsibility for oil conflict in the Niger Delta through their project Remember Saro-Wiwa. The Guardian‘s extensive story on a new report by...
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Corporations, Climate and the UN
A significant report from the Polaris Institute on corporate influence, documenting the ways that lobbyists infiltrate UN climate change negotiations. Parallel with PLATFORM‘s work on challenging the...
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Social license to operate
BP is definitely splashing around the cultural sponsorship – there has been press coverage of the £10 million to cultural majors in London, and now they are also sponsoring the Cultural Olympiad. Art...
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Oil, photography
Following up on Louis Helbig‘s presentation at Edinburgh College of Art comes Suzaan Boettger’s review in Brooklyn Rail of three books of photography of oil landscapes, Burtynsky’s Oil, J. Henry Fair’s...
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