Morgendagens helter til UK. Statoils sponsing rettet mot barn og unge brer om seg. Dette finner vi dypt problemtatisk.
Artikkel i Desmog (UK):
Anna Galkina of the art and environment group Platform said: “Big Oil’s business model – whether Shell, BP, or Statoil’s – is incompatible with ensuring a safe climate for our children to live in.
“Branding a gallery aimed at educating schoolkids about science with a Statoil logo is really the worst kind of hypocrisy.”
This was echoed by Ragnhild Freng Dale from the Norwegian campaign group ‘End Oil Sponsorship of the Arts Norway’, who argued that by targeting young audiences, it will serve to “normalise [Statoil’s] presence in our cultural institutions, whilst their business plans directly threaten a safe climate for future generations to grow up in.”