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 The oil economy generates conflict and destruction at every stage of its lethal
cycle. It seizes lands, pollutes rivers, and kills or tortures those who stand
in its way. It will fight any war and undermine international law to secure new
supplies. It fuels the climate change which threatens all our futures with
floods, droughts, storms and heatwaves.
Enough!
It's time to break our cycle of oil addiction, confront the companies
responsible, and challenge the public funding (our taxes) which makes it
possible. It's time to work together for a just future without fossil fuels.
We cannot allow our future to be fuelled by fear and energy insecurity, and wars
to be fought to secure oil to waste in our high energy lifestyles. Our addiction
to oil twists and skews our development, impoverishes people and causes
catastrophic climate change - the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.
Campaiging and organising against oil expansion, future and ongoing conflicts
and the most powerful governments in the world demands that we dissolve false
barriers which have prevented us from working together and start making real
links with people in our communities.
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E$$O - BAD COMPANY!! !
Esso, the largest corporation on the planet, has spent the last decade working hard to sabotage international action on global warming. More than any other oil company, Esso (ExxonMobil in the USA) has spent millions of dollars to ensure that the US president, George Bush, walked away from the only international treaty on global warming.
UN scientists say that if global warming - caused by burning oil, coal and gas - goes unchecked, there will be a massive increase in storms, floods, drought and disease. But Esso still denies that burning these fuels causes global warming. Esso plans to spend $100 billion over ten years looking for new oil reserves and not one dollar on clean renewable energy.
Meanwhile it uses its power and dollars to derail international negotiations on action to save the climate. Esso doesn't want green fuels or clean energy from wind, wave and solar power to replace oil, coal and gas.
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E$$O - the POWER Behind Bush's Throne!!
Esso gave $1.376 million to the Republicans in the 2000 election cycle - more than any other oil company. 91% of its political donations went to the Republicans. As soon as George Bush became president, he pulled the United States out of the Kyoto Protocol, the only international agreement to address global warming exactly the policy that Esso was promoting. As the USA is responsible for 25% of the pollution that causes global warming, this has a massive effect on the efficacy of the protocol.
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What's wrong with Esso?:
The company that has done more than any other to keep the US hooked on oil is Esso (known as ExxonMobil in the USA). This addiction is causing global warming.
Esso has spent the last decade sabotaging international action on climate change and directing US climate and energy policy. Esso paid the Republicans $1.2 million up to the 2000 elections - and sure enough President George W Bush pulled the US out of the international global warming treaty, the Kyoto Protocol.
Esso has consistently questioned the accepted scientific consensus that burning fossil fuels like oil is causing global warming. It is still misleading the US public and policymakers over the economic implications of tackling the problem.
It funds 'industry front groups@ to lobby on its behalf. In turn, they promote climate sceptic scientists to question the science of global warming.
If Bush was acting on climate change, he'd be curbing the US addiction to oil.
drop bush not bombs
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Exxon Valdez Disaster- 15 Years of Lies
Source: Green Peace
Posted: March 24, 2004
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It is fifteen years since the devastating Exxon Valdez oil spill, which saw 11 million gallons of oil pouring into a pristine wilderness area in Prince William Sound, Alaska. US oil giant ExxonMobil should come clean about the true state of the site of the spill as new research shows that the Sound is still suffering from adverse effects of the massive oil pollution.
In 1991 ExxonMobil pleaded guilty to breaking several environmental laws and settled criminal and civil lawsuits of over US$1 billion. This was the most extensive attempt in human history to mitigate the environmental damage caused by an industrial disaster.
Since then ExxonMobil/Esso, the world's leading oil company, has used its vast financial power and influence to avoid taking responsibility. The company has dragged out the battle over the additional US$5 billion punitive damages awarded against it and has stated that it intends to see the decision "overturned." Yet at the same time, the oil giant is suing Greenpeace and 36 individuals who peacefully entered ExxonMobil's headquarter in Texas to protest against the company's position on climate change.
In the early 1990s, ExxonMobil funded research that claimed the Sound was well on its way to recovery. But new scientific research, conducted over the last 14 years, states the opposite. The latest study, published in Science magazine, concluded that far from having recovered the Sound area continues to experience problems as a result of oil remaining from the spill.
With 500 miles of the coastline covered in oil just within the Sound area, mortality in the aftermath of the spill was particularly high, with sea otter, sea bird and harbour seal populations hit hard. Contrary to ExxonMobil's research, oil is still present in the Sound and has remained 'persistently toxic', resulting in long-term impacts on fish, sea otters and sea ducks.
Deliberate misinformation campaign
Dennis Kelso, Commissioner of Alaska's Department of Environmental Conservation argues that ExxonMobil's statements following the spill were "part of a deliberate misinformation campaign," a position supported by marine scientist Professor Rick Steiner, who believes that ExxonMobil "has constructed its own 'reality' of the spill - minimal impacts and rapid recovery."
"ExxonMobil's tactics are well-known, and this is a classic case of deny, dupe and delay," said Greenpeace Campaigner Anita Goldsmith. "Just as it denies the science on climate change, it denies that oil from the spill is causing damage in the Sound. And on both issues it is running a campaign to dupe the public into thinking it's an environmentally and socially responsible corporation. As long as ExxonMobil continues this way, Greenpeace will continue to campaign like the volunteers in Texas, to expose it."
Paying for research to support its argument and to misinform the public is nothing new to ExxonMobil. It has funded research in legal and academic journals that supports the company argument that juries are not competent to rule in punitive damage cases like the Exxon Valdez. This research is an attempt to effect a change in legislation that would enable ExxonMobil to succeed in its attempts to 'overturn' the punitive damages award. The company also runs an organised campaign to demolish accepted science on climate change. At a time when the world is suffering the consequences of changing weather, droughts, floods etc ExxonMobil argues that more research is needed before taking action.
ExxonMobil's version of the Exxon Valdez oil spill is a history of lies, a legacy that the company pursues in its activities today.
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