BP and Eden Project climb into eachother's arms
Gauguin-Gone-Green | 09.08.2005 23:50 | Ecology | Social Struggles
The Eden Project has teamed up with BP on a project called 'Carbon Credits: www.edenproject.com/6086.htm
Apart from anything else, carbon credits and the whole idea that planting trees can offset your emissions is very dodgy:
www.sinkswatch.org
Apart from anything else, carbon credits and the whole idea that planting trees can offset your emissions is very dodgy:
www.sinkswatch.org
If you would like to let them know how you feel about this situation, here are 3 addresses of people who are involved in the situation. (I'd suggest keeping it polite.)
TKendle@EdenProject.com, GGrand@EdenProject.com, BFoster@EdenProject.com
Here's a letter I wrote last week:
'Dear Mr. Kendle and associates,
I believe that your association with BP is highly gullible, at best, and at worst an insult to the countless people and movements around the world (though particularly in the global south) who are suffering and resisting the impacts of the oil industry every day of their lives.
There may be individuals within BP who have a strong desire to see the company move more committedly into the renewables sector, (though I imagine they are also passionate about BP maintaining a stranglehold in this emerging sector.) But they are in a minority, as the fact remains that the logo on your website represents a company committed above all
else to pulling 3.5% or more oil and gas out of the ground, year on year. For example, the Baku Ceyhan pipeline will transport 1 million barrels of oil, every day for 40 years or more. That's a whole load of carbon dioxide heading for our upper atmosphere.
The Eden Project's tacit approval of BP as a company allows the public gaze to be diverted from these facts, not to mention a worse-than-shoddy human rights and safety record. And if you are committed to a move away from fossil fuels, why is there a link to BP Ultimate, which is, unless I'm very much mistaken, 100% fossil fuel?
I am part of 'Art Not Oil', a project which attempts to wrench public attention back to a truer portrait of an oil company. I've added some information about it below. We'd love a link on your website!
I've also attached a copy of the Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading, formulated by mostly southern-based grassroots groups, which I hope is of interest.
It would be great to hear your thoughts on the issues I've raised here. In the meantime, thanks for reading and take care,'
TKendle@EdenProject.com, GGrand@EdenProject.com, BFoster@EdenProject.com Here's a letter I wrote last week:
'Dear Mr. Kendle and associates,
I believe that your association with BP is highly gullible, at best, and at worst an insult to the countless people and movements around the world (though particularly in the global south) who are suffering and resisting the impacts of the oil industry every day of their lives.
There may be individuals within BP who have a strong desire to see the company move more committedly into the renewables sector, (though I imagine they are also passionate about BP maintaining a stranglehold in this emerging sector.) But they are in a minority, as the fact remains that the logo on your website represents a company committed above all
else to pulling 3.5% or more oil and gas out of the ground, year on year. For example, the Baku Ceyhan pipeline will transport 1 million barrels of oil, every day for 40 years or more. That's a whole load of carbon dioxide heading for our upper atmosphere.
The Eden Project's tacit approval of BP as a company allows the public gaze to be diverted from these facts, not to mention a worse-than-shoddy human rights and safety record. And if you are committed to a move away from fossil fuels, why is there a link to BP Ultimate, which is, unless I'm very much mistaken, 100% fossil fuel?
I am part of 'Art Not Oil', a project which attempts to wrench public attention back to a truer portrait of an oil company. I've added some information about it below. We'd love a link on your website!
I've also attached a copy of the Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading, formulated by mostly southern-based grassroots groups, which I hope is of interest.
It would be great to hear your thoughts on the issues I've raised here. In the meantime, thanks for reading and take care,'
Gauguin-Gone-Green
e-mail:
info@artnotoilorg.uk
Homepage:
http://www.artnotoil.org.uk
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'This poem is sponsored by BP... '
10.08.2005 22:24
Oil launch at Oxford House on August 4th, and delivered by her there with
great passion and elan...
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'This poem is sponsored by BP... '
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The company is delighted to collaborate on this project,
continuing its commitment to education and the arts,
as part of its corporate social responsibility programme.
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that the poet farted whilst composing this piece.
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It will present a clean, friendly image.
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Don't you get it?
There's nothing to see.
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Everything's just fine.
Spo