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BP AT BIG GREEN

Jack Straw | 23.08.2003 05:22

BP at Big Green

BP seem to have pulled the wool over everyones eyes at this years Big Green Gathering Festival as they had there "green" , "environmentally friendlly headquarters in the same fields as activists who a few months ago were protesting at there AGM at the Royel fest hall!!!!!!!!!! They called themselves something like "wind & Solar .co.ul but the markings of BP were unmistakeable,even having BP flags inside!!!! None of the workers denied being BP & one kid said to me , whilst i was doing my best to harrass the fuck out of them, if it wasnt for us you wouldnt be having this festival! Prob bullshit but worrying to think how far corporate sponsership has weaselled its ways into event such as the Big Green! They were just past the kids field when you went through a big green muddy arch next to the big white dome. I think its disgusting what next British Aerospace in the healing fields??? If any organisers read this, what the hell happened??? Just because a companey sell solar power they unfortunately still have paramilitary death squads & environmental catastrophies all over the world!!!!
YA BASTA

Jack Straw

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Big mistake

23.08.2003 17:51

Unbelievable, BGG needs to wake up. BP bought this company for greenwash and to control alternatives. Their solar panels may work best (and BP "own" the technology no doubt) but they come with brutality and devastation attached. Some people did get the logos removed on the Saturday, but next time it has to be another company altogether or a boycott of a discredited event.

Mike Bilbo


Get real

24.08.2003 01:27

Wind and Sun are not owned by BP. The Wind and Sun people are not employed by BP.
It's just one of dozens of companies that distribute BP solar panels. There were other people at the Big Green selling BP solar too. And infact, at least half of the panels being used to power the site were from BP. That shouldn't be supprising, BP is the biggest player in solar these days - obviously not because they have seen the light - more that they want to have a major foot in the door in controlling the market. Shell is also one of the major players in solar and there are obvious reasons why scum like BP and Shell would buy into solar.

But what would you have the Big Green do? If you are looking for non green or non ethical stuff at the Big Green it's not too hard to find dozens of examples. There is little truely sustainable about such an event.

But why pick on Wind and Sun? They are a small company selling a wide range of stuff and just like eveyone selling renewable energy stuff, they sell stuff from big corporations who do bad shit. So whats new?


ben


grow up ben

24.08.2003 06:32

Ben grow up. didnt u see all the colours used were yellow & Green , They had nmassivw BP flags inside & i spoke to them and they are infact BP themselves probably just trying to fool mugs like you into believing they are "green".

Jacks Draw


conflating the issues ...

27.08.2003 10:34

... and cutting off noses to spite faces.

Yes BP make solar panels, and yes they - and others - have tried to 'corner' the market in this and other non-fossel fuel technologies.

Yes there were BP solar panels in use at BGG.

Yes there were attempts by BP and others to co-opt, appropriate and 're-colonise' the resource use and distribution at BGG.

So ...

This is the nature of the capitalist beast we face - every culture, art form, holistic and particular world view has had the cold clamy hand of these corporate monoliths placed upon their activities. Colonisation continues apace as for now as then.

The fact is that there were as many non BP solar panels, as many non corporate energy systems etc etc.

What sort of fuel did the people use to get there? Non fossel fuels?

We must not divide ourselves up into those that would disfigure themselves in total avoidence of the capitalist machine against those that compromise either out of convienience or lack of time money etc. Capitalism cuts across our lives everywhere.

The computers you are using to read this were manufactured by low wage/slave wage workers - the power to run them comes from atom smashing military loving power companies ...

Leave your noses in place whilst you transit from exploited to empowered would be my humble advice.

What were the aims of the organisers of BGG? To fool you all for money?

Believing that - you have lost already.

An attempt was made to bring people together in order to better ourselves AND have some fun - find out the ridiculous restrictions placed on the organisers by councils and police types. Try holding a free festival .. go on .. it will be small, badly attended and prone to immeadiate police repression the moment any political or non corporate drug culture rises above the damp gloom.

Use your efforts and outrage to make next BGG better .. or else sanctify yourselves with fine words and holier than thou pronouncements from the sidelines of history ...

jackslucid
mail e-mail: jackslucid@hotmail.com


Idiot Jackslucid

27.08.2003 17:17

So you are confirming that the BGGatherers are a bunch of hipocrits out there to have some fun in the sun burnign fossil fuel al lthe way and compromising principles by licking pigsum arses so that they can negotiate a 'festy'.
ie, fucking phoneys!

Teh bit aboit choice in solar panels is fucking funny and so untrue.

BP Solar expands to British Petroleum Solar. Spot the conflict?

Fuck off pigs!

ram


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