Tony Blair was this morning under fire from Spanish environmentalists angry at the threat posed to their shores by oil spills from tankers like The Prestige. Single hull tankers carrying heavy fuel oil continue to sail into port at Gibraltar - despite a ban enacted by the Madrid Government that prevents them passing through Spanish waters after last year's disaster.
The British Government is being urged to seize an oil tanker dubbed 'Prestige 2' if, as expected, it enters British waters. The Byzantio left Estonia last week carrying 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil - the same cargo as the sunken tanker. Like the Prestige, it is a 26 year old single-hulled ship under charter by the Russian-owned trading company Crown Resources, sailing beneath a flag of convenience. It is expected to pass through the English channel as early as tomorrow.
Posted by bex — 19 November 2002 at 9:00am
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Oil spill from Prestige tanker
Latest... Oil is now covering more than 500 km of the Spanish Coast, carried by the Gulf Stream. The Spanish Government has conceded that more than 20,000 metric tonnes has leaked from the Prestige. And experts expect the Portugese coast to be affected next...
Action! As the clean-up operation continues to lack co-ordination, Greenpeace activists protested outside the Galician provincial Government building in La Coruna on Saturday - confronting the Vice President with buckets of oil collected from a nearby beach.
Summary The Government urgently needs to find alternatives to oil, coal and gas to help stop global warming. The options are building more nuclear power stations or using renewable energy from the wind, waves and sun.
The decision should be easy. Renewable energy is affordable, safe and clean and the UK has some of the best renewable energy resources in Europe. Wind power at sea alone could meet our electricity needs three times over AND bring thousands of jobs to the UK.
Posted by bex — 10 October 2002 at 8:00am
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Stop Esso campaign spreads across the globe
In 2002, action against Esso got well underway in the USA, Europe and New Zealand, as Greenpeace activists around the world joined in the protest.
MAY 2002
United States: Greenpeace USA launches it's campaign against the richest company in the planet.
Canada: Greenpeace activists lock themselves to fuel pumps at Esso stations in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, while volunteers in Bush masks urge motorists not to buy Esso.
New Zealand: Greenpeace issues "A Decade of Dirty Tricks" report outlining how Esso has undermined international climate change policy.
New briefing reveals major problems with British Energy rescue proposals
Seventy two percent of the British public favour funding of wind power over the nuclear industry according to a MORI poll funded by Greenpeace [1]. The results lend weight to calls for the Government to reject special pleading by British Energy for a cash bailout and instead respond to calls from the renewable energy industry for comparable investments in offshore wind farms and domestic solar power.
Posted by bex — 4 September 2002 at 8:00am
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A dried up river bed in Mozambique
The Johannesburg Earth Summit will go down in history - as a missed opportunity to deliver energy to the 2 billion people on this planet with no access to energy services, and as a failure to kick-start the renewable energy revolution that is required to protect the climate.
New figures released today show that the boycott of Esso petrol is hitting the oil giant at the pump. The news comes as the company stands accused of sabotaging a deal at the Earth Summit to deliver renewable energy to the world's poorest regions.
Polling by MORI Social Research Institute shows the number of petrol buyers who say they regularly buy their petrol from Esso has fallen by around a quarter in a year, while more than one million motorists say they are boycotting Esso because of their stance on global warming.
Tony Blair was this morning under fire from Spanish environmentalists angry at the threat posed to their shores by oil spills from tankers like The Prestige. Single hull tankers carrying heavy fuel oil continue to sail into port at Gibraltar - despite a ban enacted by the Madrid Government that prevents them passing through Spanish waters after last year's disaster. 
