>The new research found that Imperial College London had accepted £54m since 2017 – by far the most of any institution surveyed. It included £39m from Shell, with which the college has said it has a “longstanding and fruitful partnership”. Imperial said the confidentiality of private contracts meant it could not reveal exactly what the money was used for, stating that it funded research into “energy transition, lowering carbon emissions in extraction and in carbon mitigation measures”.
>Some universities refused to reveal details of any links. The London School of Economics said it could not reveal any information because it would “prejudice the commercial interests of the school, by making it more difficult to raise funds from private donors in the future”. The University of Surrey also refused to disclose details of its research funding from BP, on the advice of BP itself. “After contacting BP, they confirmed that they consider the specific amount of the funding as being commercially sensitive,” the university said.
WTF is with the secrecy?
Secrecy? Because you have something to hide. It is exactly the explanation given by this government when people refused to be tracked or / and spied upon. Something is definitely rotten.
Absolutely no chance of conflict of interests here 🤣
Ah oil, that evil thing. Let’s ban it and see what happens to society.
Good. £89m for education is £89m well spent. And until the tax payer us willing to fund education institutions have a responsibility to get cash where they can.
Likely 99% went I reckon to a handful of places, Imperial being the obvious energy-centric candidate in the UK, most Uni’s would have seen zero. Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial and a few others are awash with money.
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>The new research found that Imperial College London had accepted £54m since 2017 – by far the most of any institution surveyed. It included £39m from Shell, with which the college has said it has a “longstanding and fruitful partnership”. Imperial said the confidentiality of private contracts meant it could not reveal exactly what the money was used for, stating that it funded research into “energy transition, lowering carbon emissions in extraction and in carbon mitigation measures”.
>Some universities refused to reveal details of any links. The London School of Economics said it could not reveal any information because it would “prejudice the commercial interests of the school, by making it more difficult to raise funds from private donors in the future”. The University of Surrey also refused to disclose details of its research funding from BP, on the advice of BP itself. “After contacting BP, they confirmed that they consider the specific amount of the funding as being commercially sensitive,” the university said.
WTF is with the secrecy?
Secrecy? Because you have something to hide. It is exactly the explanation given by this government when people refused to be tracked or / and spied upon. Something is definitely rotten.
Absolutely no chance of conflict of interests here 🤣
Ah oil, that evil thing. Let’s ban it and see what happens to society.
Good. £89m for education is £89m well spent. And until the tax payer us willing to fund education institutions have a responsibility to get cash where they can.
Likely 99% went I reckon to a handful of places, Imperial being the obvious energy-centric candidate in the UK, most Uni’s would have seen zero. Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial and a few others are awash with money.