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MPs call for a halt on Arctic oil drilling

Posted by vickywyatt - 20 September 2012 at 11:41am - Comments
Ice in the sea
All rights reserved. Credit: Greenpeace / Cobbing
75% of sea ice volume has vanished since 1979

Shell has had one hell of a week. After months of unsuccessfully trying to persuade the US government to give their ageing, rusty ships the green light to drill in the Arctic, a 30-mile long ice floe comes along and forces them to stop drilling only 36 hours after they started.

Article tagged as: arctic, audit, committee, drilling, EAC, environment, ice, oil, parliament, shell, vicky, wyatt

Shell: a walking PR disaster

Posted by vickywyatt - 19 August 2011 at 3:29pm - Comments
The Arctic is under threat from oil drillers
All rights reserved. Credit: Will Rose / Greenpeace
Shell plans to join the rush for oil in the Arctic

Thanks to all those who attended Shell’s web chat yesterday.

We were there too and thought the chat did little to dispel the company’s growing reputation as a walking PR disaster. Whilst Shell boasted of having responded to over 80 questions, unfortunately their answers bore little relation to the questions being asked.

This was an hour long master class in obfuscation and evasion.

Article tagged as: arctic, climate change, energy, go beyond oil, north sea, oil, pr, shell

Keep on truckin'

Posted by vickywyatt - 13 January 2011 at 5:49pm - Comments
Tar sands mine in the boreal forest of Canada
All rights reserved. Credit: Jiri Rezac / Greenpeace
Tar sands mine in the boreal forest of Canada

The simmering tensions between the road lobby and the government have surfaced again as fuel prices soar. Yesterday, the freight industry launched a campaign to lobby against any further rises in fuel duty.

Article tagged as: beyond oil, BP, climate, climate change, emissions, EU, oil, oil spill, tar sands, transport, trucking, vehicles

The art of nuisance

Posted by vickywyatt - 16 April 2009 at 1:34pm - Comments
Climate campaigner Vicky is next up in our spring blog relay - a whistle-stop tour of Greenpeace staff here in the UK. Click here to catch up on the other entries.

Vicky at her desk

I heard a story a few weeks ago that captured what, as a campaigner on the climate team, I should be aspiring to do. It goes like this:

Saul Alinsky, the activist and community organiser who campaigned to improve the lot of the poor, black, working-class in 1960s America, took on the Kodak Company in New York for refusing to hire black workers at its factory.

Article tagged as: airplot, blog relay, climate change, geoff hoon, saul alinsky

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