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Esso executives charged!

Posted by bex — 27 May 2003 at 8:00am - Comments
Greenpeace activists inside Esso HQ, Texas

Greenpeace activists inside Esso HQ, Texas

Article tagged as: climate change, direct actions, junk science, stop esso

Stop Esso campaign history

Posted by bex — 3 May 2003 at 8:00am - Comments
Stop Esso campaign logo

Stop Esso campaign logo

The UK Stop Esso campaign was launched in May 2001 by coalition members Greenpeace, People and Planet and Friends of the Earth.

Bianca Jagger unveiled a "Boycott Esso" mobile billboard at the campaign launch. The Body Shop, Annie Lennox, Ralph Fiennes, Jerome Flynn, Damien Hirst, Keith Allen and several politicians signed up to the boycott.

On the first Stop Esso Day, in villages, towns and cities across the UK and Ireland, over 3000 people peacefully and legally campaigned at Esso petrol stations.

Stop Esso Day II saw Julia Sawalha and Alan Davies join the protests at Esso petrol stations.

These were the largest non-violent direct actions against global warming ever seen in the UK.

May 2002 also marked the launch of Stop ExxonMobil, a US campaign aimed at Esso's parent company. Over the following months, Stop Esso spread around the globe.

Article tagged as: climate change, friends of the earth, oil, people & planet, stop esso, successes

Esso and global warming

Posted by bex — 4 April 2003 at 9:00am - Comments
Global warming is caused by burning fossil fuels (oil, coal and gas). It is the biggest environmental problem we face today, and the effects - extreme weather, drought and disease - are already being felt.


To counter the effects of global warming, the burning of fossil fuels must be reduced and phased out over the next 30-40 years.

Article tagged as: climate change, fossil fuels, oil, stop esso

Esso and war on Iraq

Posted by bex — 4 April 2003 at 9:00am - Comments
Esso's drums of war

Esso's drums of war

The links between the Bush administration and Esso are an "open secret" in the US. A Deutsche Bank report stated that Esso's "political clout" means it "may find itself in pole position in a changed-regime Iraq".

Article tagged as: climate change, iraq, oil, peace, stop esso

Survey reveals British public think oil is the main reason for war with Iraq

Last edited 3 April 2003 at 9:00am
3 April, 2003

A MORI poll, released today by Greenpeace, has found that the British people believe that oil rather than humanitarian issues is the main reason for President Bush going to war with Iraq.

Responding (unprompted) to the question 'What do you think is the main reason or reasons for President Bush going to war with Iraq?' the most common response was 'to protect US oil supply/control Iraqi oilfields' (32%).

Article tagged as: climate change, oil, press releases, stop esso, stop the war

Anti-Esso 'poems on the underground' mystery solved as Greenpeace admits responsibility

Last edited 26 March 2003 at 9:00am
26 March, 2003

Weeks of confusion and amusement for commuters and tube bosses came to an end today as the perpetrators of an anti-Esso guerrilla advertising campaign admitted responsibility. Thousands of spoof 'poems on the underground' posters attacking George Bush and oil giant Esso have been appearing on the Northern, District, Metropolitan, Hammersmith and City and Bakerloo lines. Esso are known to be furious, while London Underground controllers were perplexed.

Article tagged as: climate change, press releases, stop esso

Bad company

Posted by bex — 24 March 2003 at 9:00am - Comments

Don't Buy Esso: Bad CompanyEsso (also known as ExxonMobil) is the most powerful company in the world, and one of the biggest. Esso will stop at nothing to keep its largest market, the USA, addicted to oil. This oil addiction is fuelling war and causing global warming, putting millions of lives at risk.

Dirty politics
Esso has always opposed any policy that would reduce the need for oil in the US. It is no coincidence that Esso's campaign has met with increasing success since George W Bush entered the White House. Esso helped him get there.

Bush's road to the White House was paved with oil money. Esso gave more dollars to the Republican Party than any other oil company in the lead-up to Bush's election in 2000.

Article tagged as: climate change, george bush, junk science, stop esso

Driven by oil

Posted by bex — 4 March 2003 at 9:00am - Comments
Spoils of war

Spoils of war

Esso is doing more than any other company to keep the US hooked on oil. This is fuelling Bush's war and causing global warming.

For decades Esso (ExxonMobil in the USA) has opposed any policy seeking to reduce the need for oil in the US.

Article tagged as: climate change, george bush, oil, stop esso

Anti-war campaigners shut scores of Esso garages and bar entrance to company HQ

Last edited 23 February 2003 at 9:00am
23 February, 2003

Greenpeace UK says oil giant is shoulder to shoulder with Bush on war and global warming

Civil disobedience by peace campaigners has this morning seen the UK operation of the world's most powerful company severely disrupted across seventeen counties.

Article tagged as: climate change, direct actions, oil, peace, press releases, stop esso

The Tiger in the Tanks

Last edited 23 February 2003 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
5 April, 2007

ExxonMobil, oil dependency and war in Iraq

Publication date: February 2003

Summary
Despite the Bush administration's claims that the proposed war on Iraq is only about weapons of mass destruction, simmering below the surface is Bush's 'need' to secure a continued supply of cheap oil.

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Article tagged as: climate change, energy security, george bush, oil, reports, stop esso, stop the war

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