Responding to BP’s annual report showing Bernard Looney’s pay package almost doubled, Greenpeace UK’s head of UK climate, Mel Evans, said:
“As families open their energy bills this month, consumed with worry about how they will make ends meet, enormous payouts are dished out to energy bosses.
“It’s fundamentally wrong that energy companies are profiting from a war overseas, whilst at the same time increasing wealth inequality in the UK.
“Instead of allowing these huge payouts to end up in the pockets of CEOs, the Government must step in with a proper tax on the oil industry and its profits, channel the money into stopping energy waste from homes, and invest in green heating schemes.
“This would offer communities a real solution to the linked problems of bills, energy insecurity and climate change.”
