BP

Damages

 * They did Deepwater Horizon...
 * According to climate100+, BP do not meet any of the criteria put forward by the Transition Pathway Initiative for companies to be sustainable (lol)
 * A history of BP in 10 objects: http://www.historyofbp.org/waira/

“It’s completely unacceptable - we know that BP is up there with the worst of the worst, they clearly have no moral qualms about anything they do. How can institutions that are supposed to be leading the country, that are supposed to be thought leaders, that are supposed to be an expression of our freedom - be built on oil money. It is so disheartening. “Our revolution was, in a large part, about autonomy. About creating a country that acts in the best interests of its citizens, a country that isn’t beholden to the will of foreign governments and multinational corporations, a country that feeds its people before polluting its waters. BP, as the largest foreign investor in the country, played a major role in keeping Mubarak and his gang in power. It has lots to answer for."

Omar Robert Hamilton, Egyptian/English film-maker  “BP is at the beginning of their construction phase for a joint venture with Husky called the Sunrise Project in the Athabasca region. It’s an in-situ based project where they use more natural gas to develop it as opposed to strip mining. They use more water to develop it as they need to use steam, and therefore there’s more carbon emissions associated with in-situ mining that BP will be utilizing to develop the tar sands. In a carbon restrained world BP is developing a highcarbon resource. At the same time, BP is not respecting the rights of the indigenous peoples there. It has not done the duty to consult, it has not done the proper consultations in the tar sands that they should be doing."

Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Lubicon Cree activist


 * BP paid paramilitaries to defend their oil infrastructure in Colombia by kidnapping and murdering trades unionists

“They told me everyone from the union were guerrilla motherfuckers, destroying the economy, blaming the multinationals that were giving us jobs. I was damaging the profits of the multinationals. That was not something they were prepared to tolerate."

Gilberto Torres (2015) talking about his paramilitary kidnappers  "I worked from 7 August 1989 as an engineer for Ecopetrol in Colombia. In 1991 I was elected to join the workers’ union, Union Sindical Obrera (USO). I saw so many things that were devastating. A colleague in the oil union disappeared, presumed murdered. BP was funding a brigade of Colombian soldiers at the very oil pumping station where we worked. I spoke up.

I spoke up because I hoped BP would take responsibility. That was in December 2001. What I have been through as a result is beyond words. On 24 Februray 2002 I was kidnapped on my way back home after work. I was tortured. I was told, to torture me, that my wife and son had also been captured. I was [38] years old at the time."

Gilberto Torres (2015)