Over half a million people have made it impossible for VW to openly oppose targets
This week the European Commission published a new draft
proposal on car efficiency for 2020. They agreed to stick with their original
target but have missed a chance to go further towards getting us off our oil
addiction.
Sylvia Borren takes up residency in Shell's board room
Today is an historic day for Shell.
For years, Shell has been investing its money in polluting oil
drilling. From the Niger Delta to the Canadian Boreal forests people
have to deal with the consequences of our environmentally destructive
policies every day. Of course, Shell has said beautiful things about
corporate social responsibility, presenting lovely brochures and
impressive scenarios for the future. Meanwhile, Shell has expanded its
investments in tar sands and Arctic drilling. This has to stop.
Greenpeace has grabbed headlines with dramatic images of activists boarding Shell’s ships. 100’s of thousands of you have emailed Shell to demand they scrap their Arctic plans, and then you've signed the Arctic scroll – asking world leaders to create a global sanctuary in the Arctic.
However to #SaveTheArctic we’re all going to need to do much more, and I’d like to help you do it.
Earlier today at the Rio Earth Summit, Greenpeace joined forces with a host of famous names to demand
that the uninhabited area of the High Arctic that lies around the North Pole be
legally protected and kept off-limits to the companies and governments that are
desperate to see it exploited.
We’re so grateful to
the following actors, musicians, explorers, environmentalists and leaders from
the worlds of business, arts and media for being the first to place their names
on the Arctic Scroll, to be planted on the seabed at the North Pole as a
statement of Arctic protection. Join them!
Several months ago, I found myself on the precipice of committing a crime. I was crouched in darkness with a bunch of Greenpeace activists, preparing to occupy a Shell drilling ship bound for the Arctic. I was suppressing the urge to run for the hills, to leave these greenies to it, to go back to being a mother in the ‘burbs. But that very fact – that I am a mother – was also the reason that I was there.
And we’re off! On Tuesday morning the Esperanza left Seattle to head for Alaska, the Bering Sea and the Arctic. As we sailed up the Puget Sound and out onto the Pacific, the beauty of the surrounding waters, islands and mountains was only tarnished by the knowledge that Shell’s Arctic bound oil rigs will leave port in Seattle and pass the pass the same way.
After the Observer magazine cover
story about our Arctic campaign, there was a flurry of interest around the
statistic that we've lost 75% of the Arctic sea ice since 1979.
Here's Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics at Cambridge University, on why he thinks the 75% figure is correct.
Posted by Eoin D -
12 June 2012 at 10:14am -
Comments
Last Thursday somebody on Youtube called "kstr3l" posted a video from his phone of a Shell PR event gone horribly, hilariously wrong. By Friday afternoon it had already been watched 500,000 times, and was making the rounds with the tag #ShellFAIL. Then journalists who had covered the story received a threatening email to cut it out, calling the whole thing an environmental activist hoax and directing people to a website about the company's arctic oil drilling plans.
