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Five Insurance Companies Are Propping Up Fossil Fuel Companies

April 23, 2025 The Canary. Resist! Allianz, Aviva, AXA, BP, climate crisis, Fossil Fuel, Insurance Companies, Intact, Oil and Gas Industry, Zurich

A new report exposes the complicity of global insurers in the climate crisis. Notably, it has revealed how five major insurance companies – Allianz, AXA, Aviva, Zurich, and Intact – have invested to the tune of $6.5bn in the fossil fuel corporations wrecking the planet. The report was authored by the Boycott Bloody Insurance campaign – which launched last month with a day of action. On Tuesday 25 March, the group targeted insurance offices nationwide. Now, its new publication Ensuring Climate Crisis: The Insurance Industry and Fossil Fuel Giants highlights how these insurance companies, while often presenting a green image, continue to support and profit from the fossil fuel industry.

Shut Down BP: It Is Complicit In Israel’s Genocide In Gaza

April 19, 2025 The Canary. Resist! BP, Climate Justice, England, Fossil Fuels, Israel, London, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, United Kingdom (UK)

Members of Fossil Free London, Energy Embargo for Palestine and the Free West Papua Campaign gathered outside BP’s London HQ in St James’s Square last night ahead of BP’s AGM, taking place today. Campaigners held a banner reading ‘stop fuelling genocide and climate breakdown’, and chanting ‘Shut down BP’. Since the wake of Israel’s genocide on Gaza, BP has come under fire for its supply of energy supplies to Israel. In September 2024, Energy Embargo for Palestine identified in a research report that 30% of Israel’s total energy supplies passes through the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, which has gone on to fuel military operations in Gaza.

Activists Burned Former BP Boss At An Annual Climate Lecture

February 13, 2025 Hannah Sharland, The Canary. Resist! BP, climate crisis, Climate Justice, Direct Action

Climate activists have held a former BP CEO and House of Lords peer’s feet to the fire at a key lecture on the climate crisis. As the climate-wrecking corporation announced another year of killer profits, lord John Browne didn’t quite get the welcome reception he had bargained for at the 10-year anniversary event. However, Fossil Free London made sure he got the one he deserved. To draw attention to more than a decade of him fronting the fossil fuel major branded ‘Blair Petroleum’ after the then Labour Party prime minister’s invasion of Iraq under false pretences, activists called on Browne to “pay up” for the warmongering company’s imperialistic past – and present.

Flash Mob Takes Over Museum To Call Out Planet-Wrecking BP Donation

December 2, 2024 The Canary. Resist! BP, climate crisis, Corporatism, Fossil Fuels, Museum, United Kingdom (UK)

On Saturday 30 November the Great Court of the British Museum was taken over by the Climate Choir Movement flash mob when around two hundred visitors at the British Museum café stood up and broke into three-part harmony to sing: ‘It’s time to drop BP! Don’t take their dirty money!’ The singers, including members of Bristol Climate Choir, then processed to the entrance of the British Museum Great Court, the largest covered public square in Europe, and performed the classical hit Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss, complete with new anti-BP words.

Big Oil Rallies To Obstruct Accountability

July 20, 2024 Emily Sanders, DeSmog. Resist! Big Oil, BP, Chevron, climate crisis, Energy, Environment, ExxonMobil, Fossil Fuels, Oil and Gas, Politics and Policy, Science Denial, shell

In the face of mounting scrutiny from local, state, and federal officials, fossil fuel companies and their allies are deploying a range of tactics to obstruct ongoing lawsuits and investigations concerning evidence that the industry has misled the public about the harms it knew its products would cause to the climate, environment, and human health. Far-right industry allies with ties to Chevron have mounted an “unprecedented” pressure campaign calling on the Supreme Court to stop a potentially historic climate deception lawsuit against oil majors from going to trial. Republican attorneys general are separately urging the Supreme Court to throw out similar climate fraud lawsuits from five states.

Report Exposes The Oil Giants ‘Fueling Israel’s War Machine’

March 15, 2024 Jake Johnson, Common Dreams. Educate! Big Oil, BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Israel, Oil and Gas, Palestine, Pipelines, Report

A report published Thursday shows that major fossil fuel companies such as Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and BP are playing a key role in propelling Israel's devastating military assault on Gaza, facilitating the country's supply of energy that powers Israeli jets and tanks as they bomb and shell civilians. The new research, conducted by Data Desk and commissioned by the advocacy group Oil Change International, examines the sources of Israeli jet fuel and crude imports in an effort to shine light on the web of countries and corporations implicated in the war on the Gaza Strip.

BP Suspends All Oil Shipments Through Red Sea In Response To Houthi Blockade

December 20, 2023 People's Dispatch. Educate! Blockade, BP, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Red Sea, Yemen

On Monday, December 18, oil giant BP announced that it would pause all oil shipments through the Red Sea due to Houthi’s blockade of all ships heading to Israel. BP is the first oil and gas company to do so. The Ansar Allah forces had announced its blockade on December 9. Yahya Sare’e, the spokesperson of Yemeni armed forces, announced that the blockade would continue until Israel ended its genocidal war on Gaza and lifted the blockade on the besieged Palestinian territory. As a result of the blockade, cargo ships have been forced to travel around the African continent rather than through the Red Sea, increasing shipping costs to Israel.On Monday, December 18, oil giant BP announced that it would pause all oil shipments through the Red Sea due to Houthi’s blockade of all ships heading to Israel. BP is the first oil and gas company to do so. The Ansar Allah forces had announced its blockade on December 9. Yahya Sare’e, the spokesperson of Yemeni armed forces, announced that the blockade would continue until Israel ended its genocidal war on Gaza and lifted the blockade on the besieged Palestinian territory. As a result of the blockade, cargo ships have been forced to travel around the African continent rather than through the Red Sea, increasing shipping costs to Israel.

BP, Evergreen Suspend Red Sea Tanker Traffic; Yemen Continues Attacks

December 18, 2023 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! BP, Evergreen, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Red Sea, Supply Chain, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

BP said it will pause all its tanker traffic through the Red Sea following an escalation of attacks on commercial shipping by Yemen’s Ansarallah resistance movement in response to Israel's brutal bombing campaign in Gaza. “In light of the deteriorating security situation for shipping in the Red Sea, BP has decided to temporarily pause all transits through the Red Sea,” the company said in a statement on 18 December. Similarly, Taiwanese container shipping line Evergreen said on Monday that it has decided to temporarily stop accepting Israeli cargo and instructed its container ships to suspend navigation through the Red Sea until further notice.

BP Dropped By National Portrait Gallery

February 24, 2022 Alex Green, The Ecologist. Resist! Art Museum, BP, Corporate Whitewashing, Fossil Fuels

The National Portrait Gallery has announced the end of its partnership with BP, becoming the latest institution from the world of art and culture to distance itself from the oil giant. The Royal Shakespeare Company and Tate have already ended sponsorship deals with BP following environmental campaigns launched by artists and employees. BP has been the main sponsor of the National Portrait Gallery’s annual portrait award since 1989 when it took over from tobacco company John Player & Sons. Portraiture The prize did not take place this year or last year while the gallery’s central London building is closed for redevelopment. In a joint statement, the gallery and BP confirmed they would not be renewing their current partnership when its contract ends in December.

Extinction Rebellion Tots Take Down BP

February 23, 2020 Jess Glass, The Ecologist. Resist! BP, Extinction Rebellion, Fossil Fuels, Museums

London - Children and families have held a die-in at the Science Museum in an Extinction Rebellion protest against air pollution. Protesters, including children as young as two, staged the peaceful demonstration at the Making The Modern World gallery in the central London museum on Thursday morning. The group lay on the floor for 20 minutes wearing bespoke gas masks reading Enough Is Enough On Air Pollution on and holding signs referencing the impact on children's health including poor lung development. Other signs quoted the government's figures on air pollution in London, which found there are around 9,400 excess deaths in the capital due to long term exposure to particulates and harmful gasses.

BP Headquarters Blocked By Greenpeace

February 7, 2020 Jess Glass, Theecologist.org Resist! Activists, BP, Climate Change, Energy, Greenpeace

Greenpeace members have blocked BP's headquarters with solar panels and oil barrels to mark the first day of the oil giant's new chief executive. More than a hundred environmental activists took 500 solar panels to the central London building at 3am today (Wednesday) as Bernard Looney prepared to take up his new role.

‘Crude Truth’ Protest At National Portrait Gallery BP Awards Exhibition.

October 23, 2019 Staff, Realmedia.press Resist! BP, Climate Change, Exploitation, Protests

The final day of the BP Portrait Awards exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery was interrupted by protesters from various campaign groups working together to highlight BP’s part in the exploitation and repression of frontline communities, especially in the Global South, as well as its role in the climate and ecological crisis. The National Portrait Gallery flaunts its 30 year relationship with BP, but recently the RSC announced that it was ending its association with BP, and the National Gallery has also jettisoned Shell...

School Strikers Threaten To Boycott RSC Over BP Sponsorship

October 3, 2019 Staff, Bp-or-not-bp.org Resist! BP, Climate Change, Schools, Strikes

Today, school strikers from twelve cities, towns and regions will send a letter to the Royal Shakespeare Company calling on it to immediately drop BP. The oil giant currently sponsors the theatre company’s £5 ticket scheme for 16-25-year-olds, but following the record-breaking protests last Friday, the school strike movement is turning its attention to the way in which BP is targeting their age-group directly through arts sponsorship.

How Big Oil Blocked The Nation’s Greenest Governor On Climate Change

September 12, 2019 Marianne Lavelle, Insideclimatenews.org Educate! BP, Climate Change, Oil

It was Valentine's Day 2018, and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee was about to be jilted. Few outside Inslee's circle of advisers knew that one of the nation's most ardent advocates of climate action had been working for weeks to forge an alliance with one of the state's leading greenhouse gas polluters—the oil giant BP. Now, on the day before a key hearing for Inslee's proposal to enact the nation's first carbon tax, the kind of comprehensive climate plan he had been talking about since taking office, BP was evasive.

BP Portrait Award Protests

June 18, 2019 Marianne Brooker, Theecologist.org Resist! Art, BP, Protests

Entrances to National Portrait Gallery blocked by performance activists, preventing guests from entering the gallery. A group of thirty artists, performers and activists arrived at the National Portrait Gallery to disrupt the announcement ceremony of the BP Portrait Award this week. While some of the group linked arms in doorways and chained themselves to gates to prevent party guests from entering the building, others handed out a fake awards programme that challenged BP’s long-standing sponsorship of the award.

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