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Stop deepwater drilling!

UK company Cairn Energy are the only company involved in deepwater drilling in the Arctic – it's risky and only a matter of time before their relentless...
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Where's the Esperanza going?

The Greenpeace ship 'Esperanza' has just left London and is on its way to an as-yet undisclosed location to confront the irresponsible oil industry that...
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BP campaign - it's not just Britain...

We've been working hard to keep BP out of tar sands, but it's not just Britain that's challenging BP - have a look here for action in Brazil (it's in...
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Greenpeace busy with BP in London

I just checked my emails and look what I found... This morning, starting at  5.30am, teams of Greenpeace volunteers have been shutting down BP stations...
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Southampton group at BP HQ

Remember those 'NO TAR SANDS' posters we completed way back at Environmental Rock? Well, today we took them to BP HQ in London. This was part of the event...
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BP Winchester in the news

A familiar photo and a short article outlining the campaign in the Hampshire Chronicle dated 15th July.Online version of the article here.
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Scrap Trident, save money - have your say

The Treasury is inviting ideas on how to save money, and to vote/comment on ideas already posted - one of these is to scrap Trident. Why not have a look here?...
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Visiting BP in Winchester

Saturday 10th July: It was sunny, it was hot - it was our visit to take the 'No Tar Sands' campaign to the St.Cross BP garage in St.Cross, Winchester as part...
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My decade of forests campaigning

Yesterday was a great day – first the EU banned illegally-logged timber, then HSBC shed its investments in the forest-trashing Sinar Mas. Great campaign...
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One day, two victories...

News just in - would you believe it, another victory! After receiving nearly 10,000 emails, HSBC has sold its shares in Sinar Mas, one of the worst...
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Illegal timber finally banned in the EU!

It’s taken 10 years and has had us hanging off Government buildings more times than I like to remember, but finally illegal timber is banned in the EU. See...
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Greenpeace at BP speech

News just in... Two Greenpeace activists have just disrupted a speech by BP's chief of staff at a major oil conference in London. More from the Guardian. No...
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July meeting

Just a quick note - the July meeting was due to be on the 1st, but will have to be changed as I'm not available that day. It's now on the 8th - see link under...
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BP & tar sands - redesign the logo

Greenpeace has launched a new competition to redesign BP’s logo to better reflect the company’s operations abroad - and the winning logo will be used in ‘...
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We win again! First Heathrow, now Nestle...

Guess what? Nestlé has just agreed to our campaign demands, by developing a plan which will identify and remove any companies in their supply chain with links...
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Heathrow 3rd runway cancelled: we won!

Fantastic news - the carbon-spewing, climate-hostile plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport have been scrapped. The Cameron/Clegg government confirmed on...
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D is for Deep Water Horizon

The BP alphabet continues: D is not for Dog, it is for... Deep Water Horizon and the resulting oil spill courtesy of BP and its Bad Petrol. Go here and here...
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Vote NO to BP Tar Sands

It's election day, but your local candidate isn't the only thing you can vote for - you can also vote NO to BP's involvement in the uber-pollution that is the...
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A is for Athabasca

Here are a few of the petals from our first poster; in this case, A is not for Apple, it is for... Athabasca, one of the major tar sands areas in Canada, where...
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Personalised petals...

So, what happens to the petals? Well, they get attached to our big 'No Tar Sands' posters, along with all sorts of other comments, including some interesting...
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