Last Thursday Oxford University hosted Ed Davey, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, and Shell's Director of "Unconventionals" at the opening of the new Shell Geoscience Laboratory - funded by, you guessed, SHELL. Several local groups, current students and alumni have protested about this and some of us went along to demonstrate our objections to Oxford Uuiversity accepting Shell's money. See some objections in the press here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/08/oxford-shell-earth-sciences-protest
Oxford Geenpeace went along and were delighted to be joined by a Reading Greenpeace contingent. Our polar bear received an apology from the mock Shell head of Unconventionals at a mock 2018 closing ceremony, on behalf of the Arctic Animals Collective, for damage done to theri home.
The complete inconsistency of Oxford University's actions are summed up in this photo, which shows that we were demonstrating outside the Earth Science building - right next door to the Oxford University Center for the Environment - which includes the UK Climate Impacts Programme - and, to quote the UN website, "is a core partner in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change". Meanwhile, next door Shell will be funding research which would seem to be very useful for future fracking.
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