| In response to BP announcing this quarter’s profits, Maja Darlington, climate campaigner for Greenpeace UK, said: “The oil industry’s capacity to profiteer from human misery is almost limitless. Seventy years after the US first achieved regime change in Iran as a favour to BP, here we are again, risking a global recession by trying to install the West’s man in a petrostate that will do anything to prevent it. It’s been an entirely predictable disaster for everyone except the oil industry. BP’s profits are booming, with Trump’s bombs bringing billions for them and bigger bills for us. Britain subsidises this industry to the tune of several billion [1] a year, and yet they’ll still claim to be overtaxed. Today’s numbers make a convincing case that the opposite is true.” ENDS Contact: Greenpeace UK Press Office – press.uk@greenpeace.org or 020 7865 8255 Notes According to the OECD, UK subsidies for fossil fuel production were £3.2bn in 2024, the last year for which data is available. |