24th Apr 2015 15:26
LONDON (Alliance News) - BP PLC has come under fire for not releasing multi-billion pound research into renewable energy to the public despite the company formerly promising to do so, The Guardian reported on Friday.
The archive is based next to the Modern Records Office at Warwick University, and critics, including the chief executive of charity Share Action, Catherine Howarth, challenged BP executives at its annual general meeting to open up the archives to the public and to be more transparent about the issue of climate change, the Guardian reported.
BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg reportedly claimed the company "shares everything happily", adding that no information was "locked away", but the Guardian said a BP spokesman informed them that no material for the last 40 years was available to the public.
The oil company told its shareholders at the annual general meeting last week that BP shared all the information it had held on to ? unless it was particularly commercially sensitive, according to the newspaper.
"I'm truly disappointed if it turns out that BP?s archive of research is not in fact open, or due to be opened imminently. The chairman not only told us about BP?s general commitment to ?sharing our knowledge? but explicitly responded to my question by confirming that nothing would be ?locked away," said Howarth.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/24/bp-renewable-energy-archive-still-closed-despite-promise-to-open-to-public
By Joshua Warner; [email protected]; @JoshAlliance
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