Our banner at Frankfurt Motor Show and VW's counter protest!
You'd struggle to make this up.
Moments ago, our activists dropped a huge banner at the Frankfurt motor show - the biggest in the world - to highlight VW's hypocrisy over its environmental policy (more info here).
As 'easy to reach oil' becomes scarcer, companies are expanding their search to new frontiers, such as the Arctic, previously considered too inaccessible, expensive or risky to exploit.
There are legitimate concerns that oil companies are not technically capable of, or financially prepared for, managing spills and their aftermath in these new and challenging environments; and that they are not being required to demonstrate their preparedness publicly, before being granted licenses to explore and produce oil.
The winning entry to our 2010 'Rebrand BP' competition
Another week, another push for reckless oil drilling by a UK company. This time it's BP, which wants to drill its deepest ever well in UK waters - a 1300 metre well - off the coast of North Uist.
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.
Two weeks to go before we challenge filmmakers to turn the cameras on Volkswagen. We're kicking off with a launch event at 10am, 17 September at the Curzon Soho. If you're in the neighbourhood, drop in, collect your competition briefing and have a chat to us about the campaign and the competition.
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