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If we want to have healthy lives and a healthy planet we have to wean ourselves off oil. We are working to expose the lengths the oil industry is willing to go to squeeze the last barrels out of the ground and putting pressure on industry and governments to move beyond oil.

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Stormtroopers in London on the campaign launch

250,000 people call on Volkswagen to change

This morning something momentous happened.Our Jedi-o-meter hit 250,000.One quarter of a million people - from all corners of the galaxy - calling on Volkswagen...
Posted by Richardg - 26 July, 2011 - 17:29 -
Cairn's tugs drag icebergs out the way of its Arctic oil drilling rig

That Cairn social media gagging order in full

A lot of people on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere have been asking us a lot of questions about the interdict (injunction) - most of which we can't answer; we'...
Posted by bex - 22 July, 2011 - 12:26 -
Still from our film challenging Volkswagen's environmental record

VW film: A YouTube U-Turn

We still have to turn VW away from the Dark Side, but we’ve scored a small victory for internet freedom along the way. A few days into our campaign while our...
Posted by jamess - 20 July, 2011 - 12:01 -

BREAKING: Cairn obtains legal interdict: ‘Twitter ban’ and 'gagging order' for Greenpeace

Update: Read the interdict in full. In its latest move to cover up the truth about its Arctic drilling, Cairn Energy has obtained an extraordinary, wide-...
Posted by bex - 19 July, 2011 - 19:35 -

Cairn occupation is over, but the campaign goes on

It's been a long day but, around 12 hours after our intrepid Polar bears occupied Cairn Energy's HQ, the last of them has now been removed by police. Around...
Posted by bex - 18 July, 2011 - 20:22 -

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