Latest updates 10 big problems with BP’s ‘Net Zero’ claimsMay 6, 2021BP wants you to think it’s doing its bit for the climate, by saying that it will go ‘net zero’ by 2050. But its plans are nowhere near enough to curb climate breakdown. [...]Read more...How BP avoids paying any tax in the UKJuly 17, 2019In 2018 BP made £5.6 billion in profits but paid no tax in the UK – instead, it received £133 million in tax credits from the public purse. [...]Read more...From war to warming: the shameful story of BP in IraqFebruary 15, 2019The British Museum’s current blockbuster exhibition, I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria, is sponsored by its regular partner, the oil giant BP. This is painfully ironic, given that many of the objects on display were originally looted by the British from modern-day Iraq, and BP was one of the biggest profiteers […] [...]Read more...Iraqis have held massive protests against the impacts of foreign oil companiesFebruary 15, 2019“In Basra you see the wealth pouring out of the community every day – from oilfields over there, less than a kilometre from where we are sitting – and then you see the poverty and lack of employment in the villages, while companies import thousands of foreign workers.” – Ali, who was involved in the […] [...]Read more...BP is extracting Iraq’s wealth with no benefit to ordinary IraqisFebruary 15, 2019‘BP, ExxonMobil and others have systematically been grabbing control over the Iraqi oil industry ever since the US invasion… The people of Iraq gain very little from their own oil industry and in fact have to ask how does it benefit us at all? We get environmental problems, higher cancer rates, but the money doesn’t […] [...]Read more...
