Latest updates 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...BP is depleting and polluting Southern Iraq’s scarce water suppliesFebruary 15, 2019“In Basra, all the wars weren’t enough for us to die in them, it became outdated that we died by bullet or by car accident. Now, even the taps kill us, the very taps that are the sources of water to our houses.” – Khalid Tawfiq Hadi Southern Iraq is facing a water crisis. […]... Read more...BP is exacerbating climate change in IraqFebruary 15, 2019“The smell is bad, the waste enormous, and the environmental impact appalling.” – a World Bank employee on encountering gas flaring at BP’s Rumaila oilfield BP’s long-term plans for its Iraqi oilfields directly contradict the urgent need to leave fossil fuels in the ground and transition rapidly to a zero carbon world. At the moment, […]... Read more...
