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Osborne's plan for the UK: pollute our way to growth

Posted by petespeller — 1 December 2011 at 11:19am - Comments

by-nc-sa. Credit: Steve Morgan / Greenpeace

George Osborne launched an assault on green measures in his Autumn Statement that reads as if it were written by the UK’s biggest polluters. Tax breaks for heavy polluters, renewed support for airport expansion, opening the countryside to development, more roads and a freeze on fuel duty - all this adds up to the dirtiest budget in recent history.

Article tagged as: airport expansion, autumn statement, energy, osborne, pollution, roads

Cairn's Arctic misadventure ends in dismal failure

Posted by bex — 30 November 2011 at 2:03pm - Comments

Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord in Greenland

It was the biggest oil exploration campaign ever in the Arctic. It cost over a billion dollars. And Cairn has absolutely nothing to show for it.

Article tagged as: arctic, cairn, climate change, go beyond oil, oil, oil drilling

We're challenging Cairn's gagging order: right to protest is as important as Cairn's right to run its business

Posted by bex — 29 November 2011 at 12:09pm - Comments

Cairn's rig - the most controversial in the world - about to start Arctic drilling

I don't know if you read our Get Active blogs, written by our brilliant community of Greenpeace volunteers? It turns out that Cairn Energy do. Last week, Cairn's lawyers sent us a terse email warning us that we were in breach of the draconian interdict they've taken out against us.

Article tagged as: arctic, climate change, go beyond oil, injunctions, legal, oil

Pick up a Picasso

Posted by mollybrooks — 28 November 2011 at 5:38pm - Comments

Earlier this year one of our long-standing and generous supporters, Frederick Mulder, offered to help Greenpeace fundraise for the Rainbow Warrior. As an international art dealer specialising in Picasso, he gifted us a number of limited edition pieces, all part of a series of unique linocut posters created by Picasso for the southern French town of Vallauris between 1951-65.

Ministry blocks anti-tar sands law, so we block ministry's front door

Posted by jamie — 28 November 2011 at 12:13pm - Comments

Right now, 50 activists are blockading the Department for Transport with two immobilised cars parked in front of the entrance. Why? Because our government is trying to scupper EU legislation that will block tar sands oil - the dirtiest, most polluting form of oil there is - from being sold at UK petrol pumps.

Article tagged as: canada, climate change, department for transport, energy, oil, tar sands, transport

EXPOSED: Canada's secret tar sands lobbying of UK ministers

Posted by petespeller — 27 November 2011 at 1:29am - Comments

Documents obtained by The Cooperative and Friends of the Earth Europe through Freedom of Information requests and shared with Greenpeace reveal numerous high-level meetings between Canadian ministers, oil executives and British government officials focused on the UK’s position on a new EU policy that would significantly restrict tar sands oil coming into Europe.

Article tagged as: canada, fuel qualities directive, go beyond oil, norman baker, oil, tar sands

VIDEO: The Rainbow Warrior III comes to London

Posted by mollybrooks — 25 November 2011 at 1:27pm - Comments

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