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BP
BP (British Petroleum Company) is a multinational petroleum company that is vertically integrated within the industry, meaning they participate on most levels of petroleum extraction, refinement, manufacturing, and sales. They spent over a million dollars between 2019 and 2021 funding research and development through the university. This funding went to developing computer models from data collected from scanning shale in fracking wells. This technology presumably helped BP increase the accuracy of their oil discovery and drilling.
Shale is a type of
The universities relationship with BP is perhaps the most egregious when it comes to directly supporting the petroleum industry. Not only is fracking extremely harmful, but the fact that they have contributed large sums of money multiple times for the same type of research shows us that they have a working relationship with the university rather than a one-time research grant. Since 2019, BP has exploited university resources to increase their profits from one of the most damaging factors of climate change.
Charles Koch Foundation
Exxon
Exxon-Mobil, an American petroleum company provided research funding to UW to research the degradation of their steel pipes. The company pledged up to $150,000 in research funding of which $109,500 ended up being used. Although ultimately this research was meant to prevent environmental damage from oil transport, it is an example of how corporations use universities like UW for research and development as preventing pipelines from leaking ultimately benefits the company. ICA believes that this goes against the universities principals as it ultimately props up the fossil fuel industry at the detriment of other research efforts in clean energy.
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BP (British Petroleum Company) is a multinational petroleum company that is vertically integrated within the industry, meaning they participate on most levels of petroleum extraction, refinement, manufacturing, and sales. They spent over a million dollars between 2019 and 2021 funding research and development through the university. This funding went to developing computer models from data collected from scanning shale in fracking wells. This technology presumably helped BP increase the accuracy of their oil discovery and drilling.
Shale is a type of
The universities relationship with BP is perhaps the most egregious when it comes to directly supporting the petroleum industry. Not only is fracking extremely harmful, but the fact that they have contributed large sums of money multiple times for the same type of research shows us that they have a working relationship with the university rather than a one-time research grant. Since 2019, BP has exploited university resources to increase their profits from one of the most damaging factors of climate change.
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$1,046,501.00
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