The International StopEsso campaign has today set up a new and uncensored French language website in Texas, following Esso's legal action against Greenpeace France over its internet use of the company's logos.
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Tony Blair is under fire from environmentalists after new research exposed a staggering hypocrisy at the heart of Labour's global warming policy.
Blair had claimed to be in the vanguard of efforts to tackle climate change - but the new research reveals that his administration has funded the construction of coal plants in the developing world that cancel out half the emissions reductions the Prime Minister has boasted the UK will make under the Kyoto Protocol.
The Esso oil corporation has backed down from claims that a campaign against its products has had no effect, and now admits that environmentalists are hitting its business.
The world's largest company is taking Greenpeace - a leading member of the StopEsso campaign - to court in France, claiming that the organisation has inflicted reputational damage on the Esso brand name. The Texas-based corporation is demanding 80,000 Euros a day in compensation.
DALLAS - ExxonMobil shareholders delivered a massive blow to the company today in a vote on the company's renewable energy policies. A resolution demanding Exxon outline its future plans for the promotion of renewable energy gained an unprecedented 20.3 percent of shareholders' votes - $55 billion in shares - at the company's annual meeting today.
Why particularly Esso? They make 15.6 billion dollars a year in profit and they are not investing one dollar of that into clean renewable energy and the fact that they invested in President Bush's campaign and as a result of that Bush has backed out of the Kyoto Protocol is deeply disturbing to me. That they are sabotaging any international action on global warming is very frightening. I think that they are being a big bully and I think it's time we stood up to them.
You know I think as an individual you can feel really helpless in the face of environmental issues, I think as long as people know what is going on, this is the kind of campaign, like you can hear people beeping behind, they can really feel like they are doing something.
What would you say to motorists who are still buying from Esso? I'd say don't put a tiger in your tank
What would your message to Esso be? Be afraid, be very afraid.
