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Deepwater Horizon: the world has changed, but the oil industry hasn't

Posted by Mal Chadwick — 5 October 2016 at 12:12pm - Comments

Everyone knows the story.

Miles below the seabed, a cement seal fails. A rig explodes. Smoke fills the sky, oil stains the sea, and 11 people never make it home. Ashen-faced execs stumble through press conferences. Rubber-gloved hands scrub poison from seabirds’ wings. Everyone solemnly agrees this must not happen again.

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Massive projection to show VW's Dark Side - take action now!

Posted by jamess — 8 September 2011 at 9:51am - Comments

Our campaign to turn VW away from its dark lobbying practices has entered a new phase.

Today we need you to put pressure where Volkswagen’s massive advertising budgets can’t dominate: on social media.

 Here’s what you can do right now:

Article tagged as: beyond oil, climate, climate change, go beyond oil, oil, volkswagen, VW, VWDarkside

VW's Dark Side: our campaign enters a new phase

Posted by jamess — 8 September 2011 at 9:40am - Comments
Volkswagen is lobbying against environmental laws
All rights reserved. Credit: David Sandison / Greenpeace
Volkswagen is lobbying against environmental laws

Today our climbers scaled VW’s headquarters in Germany while other activists projected a massive message onto the side of London’s Battersea power station – where Volkswagen is participating in a green car show.

Our actions kick off a new phase in our VW campaign – we will not let the car giant’s lobbying continue to threaten our planet.

Article tagged as: beyond oil, climate change, co2, ecovelocity, go beyond oil, oil, volkswagen, VW, VWDarkside

Who's going to defend the Arctic?

Posted by jamess — 18 January 2011 at 5:43pm - Comments
Oil companies are taking their drills to the Arctic
All rights reserved. Credit: Nick Cobbing / Greenpeace
Oil companies are taking their drills to the Arctic

The masters at Marvel comics would struggle to find bad guys worse than these.

Take two of the world’s biggest environmental villains – Russian Rosneft (special powers: oil leaks. 7,526 in 2009 alone) and British BP (special powers: oil spills. Gulf of Mexico, 2010).

Article tagged as: arctic, beyond oil, BP, climate, climate change, go beyond oil, ice, rosneft

Why don't you want an oil job?

Posted by jamess — 14 January 2011 at 12:13pm - Comments
The question is: has big oil ever had the brightest minds? (BP boss Hayward in f
All rights reserved. Credit: Daniel Beltrá / Greenpeace
The question is: has big oil ever had the brightest minds? (BP boss Hayward in front of world's worst oil spill)

Want to be this man? Apparently not.

Yesterday someone pointed me to an article on the BBC lamenting the drop in young brains chasing jobs in the dirty oil sector. It seems that having lost the battle for our hearts many moons ago, the oil industry has now officially lost the battle for our minds, too.

Article tagged as: beyond oil, BP, climate, go beyond oil, jobs, students
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