New Scientist Live ends BP partnership and fossil fuel ties
Terrific news from our doughty friends at Culture Unstained:
Polluting Public Culture
by Alice Proctor
Tim Winton speaks out against fossil fuel sponsorship of Perth festival
'Speaking at the festival, the author took aim at the event’s "embarrassing" financial arrangements that come "straight out of the big tobacco playbook"':
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/feb/28/it-makes-us-chumps-tim-…
Scottish Ballet cuts ties with BP
[Photo: BP or not BP? protest against Scottish Ballet, November 12, 202]
C4: 'Revealed: secretive corporate group guiding British Museum'; petition
The British Museum must not renew its sponsorship deal with BP:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/the-british-museum-must-not-to-r…;
See also
REVEALED: BRITISH MUSEUM SECRETLY NEGOTIATING NEW BP DEAL DESPITE OPPOSITION
https://cultureunstained.org/bm-seekingnewbpdeal/
and
'The “new cigarettes” of sponsorships: Tennis Australia cuts ties with fossil fuel giant'
From https://www.smartcompany.com.au/series/climate-change/sponsorships-tenn…
'Are fossil fuel sponsorships the new cigarettes? Dismayed former Wallabies player David Pocock made the claim after Santos inked a deal with Rugby Australia in 2019.