Chevron

We get the green light from the High Court

Posted by jamess — 24 February 2011 at 6:17pm - Comments
We put the yellow pod on Chevron's anchor chain to stop their drill ship
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We put the yellow pod on Chevron's anchor chain to stop their drill ship

It’s on. Today the High Court gave the green light to our legal challenge against new licenses for deep water drilling in UK waters.

Article tagged as: chevron, climate, climate change, go beyond oil, hess, judicial review, legal challenge, oil

Sneaky oil drillers - let's stop them

Posted by jamess — 4 February 2011 at 6:42pm - Comments
Hess' own projection of a possible spill. Terrifying.
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Hess' own projection of a possible spill. Terrifying.

The oil companies are at it again: they're trying to drill another deep water well off the Shetland Islands. Let's stop them.

Article tagged as: chevron, go beyond oil, hess, oil, oil spill, shetland

Using leaks to prevent spills?

Posted by jamess — 10 December 2010 at 5:44pm - Comments
Chevron's projection of a possible oil spill at its Lagavulin drill site in the
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Chevron's projection of a possible oil spill at its Lagavulin drill site in the North Sea

From Chevron to Shell, Nigeria to the North Sea, the slippery mask of big oil was briefly removed this week.

On Tuesday we learned from a leaked internal company report that Transocean – the operators of BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig – had a partial “blow-out” on one of its North Sea rigs only months before the Gulf of Mexico catastrophe.

Article tagged as: chevron, climate change, go beyond oil, leaks, north sea, oil spill, wikileaks

We take the government to court over oil drilling

Posted by jamess — 12 November 2010 at 2:07pm - Comments

We've taken the government to the High Court in a bid to stop offshore drilling in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Our lawyers filed a claim at the Royal Courts of Justice this morning seeking to stop the issuing of new licences for deep sea drilling until the causes of the Deepwater Horizon explosion have been properly established.

Article tagged as: BP, chevron, go beyond oil, government, high court, legal challenge, oil spill

Oil companies answer to who?

Posted by jamess — 12 October 2010 at 5:55pm - Comments

Now that I'm out of the water, off the Esperanza and back on dry land, I've been thinking about what it takes to stop not just one oil rig but all of them.

There's no dodging the fact that the oil industry is immense. In the North sea, where we confronted Chevron, companies have spent more money on extracting oil in the region than NASA spent putting a man on the moon. In the Gulf of Mexico, where BP's Deepwater Horizon platform exploded this summer, there are over 3,500 other rigs ready to bore away at the seabed.

Article tagged as: BP, chevron, climate change, drilling, financial risk, go beyond oil, legal & general, oil, pension, UN

Are you a secret superhero?

Posted by jamess — 4 October 2010 at 1:34pm - Comments

Scrubbing the toilets this morning a bizarre thought crossed my mind: I’m going to miss this. The squeaky whiteboard, with our names for the 8am cleaning rota, reads: Messroom/Leila, Lounge/Frank, Showers/Victor, Alleyways/Elena, Laundry/Ben and Toilets … James.

A strange thing to miss perhaps, cleaning the ‘heads’ – my ship lingo is rapidly expanding – but it’s another part of the daily routine that has defined the communal life on board our floating Esperanza.

This is a working ship and everyone is busy pretty much all the time. Whether it’s in the engine room, the galley, the fitter’s workshop, the Radio Operator’s room, up on the bridge or out on deck, there are always things to do, just to keep a ship going.

Article tagged as: cairn, chevron, climate change, go beyond oil, oil spill
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