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CAMPAIGNERS blazed their call for the British Museum to drop oil giant BP’s sponsorship onto the very walls of that great institution yesterday.
The words “Drop BP” and other slogans greeted guests at a sold-out lecture on Monday about a BP-sponsored exhibition.
BP has been preparing to drill in the Great Australian Bight, the huge bay encompassed by nearly all of Australia’s sweeping southern coastline.
BP or not BP? campaign member Chris Garrar, who helped organise the stunt, said: “Last year the British Museum gave [BP] valuable legitimacy by allowing it to sponsor an exhibition on indigenous Australia.
“And this year, BP will sponsor the museum’s Sunken Cities exhibition.
“But the bitter irony is that if BP drills four new wells in the Great Australian Bight, Sunken Cities won’t just be a record of the past — it will be a vision of the kind of future we will face with dangerous climate change.”
British Museum managers have argued that the BP sponsorship has been vital to the museum’s survival.
