Monday, July 5, 2010

BP Sponsorship Gone Crude

The art activists call this BP sponsorship: Licence to Spill



Statement: "Apart from catastrophic spills like the Deepwater Horizon, there are a whole host of adverse impacts that are associated with the production of oil. On the local level, it often involves extreme forms of pollution for local communities, while regionally oil is frequently associated with greater militarization and conflict. Globally, carbon emissions, oil companies, and our collective dependence on the product they push, are taking us ever closer to the edge of climate catastrophe.

"In order for an oil company to produce oil and transport it to the global market, it needs either the support or the silence of the population in those areas of the world in which this takes place. Where the necessary support - or ‘social licence to operate’ - is not forthcoming, the ability of that company to carry out its business becomes seriously impaired..."
Click HERE for the full report


Video performance art only in the video above.
Background info, complainers, cleanup and interviews in the video below:


Thanks for filming this you and i films