Stop Esso campaign spreads across the globe
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In 2002, action against Esso got well underway in the USA, Europe and New Zealand, as Greenpeace activists around the world joined in the protest.
MAY 2002
United States: Greenpeace USA launches it's campaign against the richest company in the planet.
Canada: Greenpeace activists lock themselves to fuel pumps at Esso stations in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, while volunteers in Bush masks urge motorists not to buy Esso.
New Zealand: Greenpeace issues "A Decade of Dirty Tricks" report outlining how Esso has undermined international climate change policy.
Luxembourg: Greenpeace volunteers dressed as tigers ride ahead of the opening of the Giro D'Italia bike race, flying a zepplin with a five metre banner reading "Stop Esso " over the crowd.
Ireland: Motorists are persuaded not to buy Esso fuel as Greenpeace activists, with tiger faces, hand out leaflets at Esso stations.
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Germany: At the German HQ of Esso, activists climbed the roof of Esso's ten-story building' and installed dollar signs in place of the letter 'S' in the corporation's logo. Banners reading "Esso: Maximum profit, zero responsibilty" were hung on the building.
JULY 2002
Canada: The David Suzuki Foundation, Friends of the Earth, the Pembina Institute, the Sierra Club of Canada and the Toronto Environmental Alliance join Greenpeace as part of a global campaign to stop Esso from fighting world efforts on climate change.
Germany: Greenpeace activists expose Esso's involvement as a major partner in the oil refinery Deutsche Transalpine Leitung (TAL).
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United States: US activists shut down ExxonMobil gas stations in New York City and Los Angeles. More visited the offices of ExxonMobil's lawyers.
Luxembourg: More than 600 ordinary people from 31 countries went to Luxembourg - known as the fuel pump of Europe - to shutdown every one of Esso's 28 petrol stations in Luxembourg - including the biggest Esso station in the world on the Luxembourg/German border ...more.