April 2011

Why are the oil companies complaining?

Posted by Richardg — 18 April 2011 at 4:41pm - Comments
Cairn's tugs drag icebergs out the way of its Arctic oil drilling rig
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Cairn's tugs drag icebergs out the way of its Arctic oil drilling rig

Ever since last month’s Budget, oil companies have been complaining about George Osborne’s tax on North Sea oil and gas. Yet many have just announced record profits - boosted considerably by current sky-high oil prices. What do they take us for?

Article tagged as: budget, cairn, cairn energy, climate change, conservatives, Encore, EnQuest, exxon, george osborne, green investment bank, Nautical Petrolem, politics, renewable energy, shell, Statoil, Valiant Petroleum, Xcite Energy

Face it, Facebook, time to unfriend coal

Posted by sara_a — 15 April 2011 at 11:05am - Comments
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Down at Facebook's London HQ

Very early this morning a handful of us went down to Facebook’s London HQ, to leaflet and talk to Facebook staff about Greenpeace’s global ‘Unfriend Coal’ campaign. We’re asking Facebook to stop using dirty coal to power its servers, and commit to sourcing 100% renewable energy.

Article tagged as: Campaigns, climate, climate change, coal, facebook, social media, unfriend coal, World Record

BP AGM Live coverage feed

Posted by jamess — 14 April 2011 at 9:42am - Comments

Today was the first BP Annual General Meeting since the Gulf of Mexico oil spill - where both furious investors and protesters voiced their frustrations at BP's abysmal handling of the disaster. Greenpeace were there - here's our live feed of tweets, news, images and videos from the event at Excel London:

Article tagged as: agm, BP, climate change, deepwater horizon, fossil fuels, go beyond oil, gulf of mexico, oil spill, tar sands

LIVE NOW: you've got 24 hours to make a world record

Posted by jamess — 13 April 2011 at 12:42pm - Comments
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Update, 14 April: We did it! Greenpeace smashed the world record for comments on a Facebook post with a total of 80,027 in 24 hours. 

While many of us squander productive hours on the Facebook monster, today there's something useful and important you can do on the social network: set a world record and help push the internet giant off coal.

Article tagged as: climate, climate change, energy, facebook, unfriend coal

A change in tuna policy: Morrisons move means all UK supermarkets switch

Posted by Willie — 12 April 2011 at 9:35am - Comments
Tuna caught in the Pacific Ocean
All rights reserved. Credit: Alex Hofford/Greenpeace
Tuna caught in the Pacific Ocean

Brilliant news! Morrisons has announced a new policy on tinned tuna, committing to stop sourcing fish caught via destructive fishing methods: this means that now all major UK supermarkets have now changed their policy towards being more sustainable. This leaves John West as the last major supplier left that still needs to change its tuna.

Article tagged as: ASDA, bycatch, fads, fish fight, Independent, john west, morrisons, princes, successes, sustainable fishing, tinned tuna, tuna

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