Go beyond oil

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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Tax breaks for riskiest oil drilling?

There’s a dangerous storm brewing in the North Sea. But this is no natural disaster - it’s been whipped up by oil and gas companies lobbying for a major tax...
Posted by Richardg - 27 May, 2011 - 17:45
Cairn's rig - the most controversial in the world - about to start Arctic drilli

Arctic drilling: A sinister presence

I'm writing this from the lounge of the Esperanza, and as I look to my right out of a porthole I can see the coast of Greenland. It's 15 miles away but the...
Posted by bens - 26 May, 2011 - 17:51
Paula blocking the entrance to Cairn's HQ

Paula Bear: Where's your spill response plan, Cairn?

This morning Paula Bear swung into action as a Greenpeace activist. While our ships are confronting Cairn Energy's oil rig in the Arctic, she’s blocking the...
Posted by jamess - 26 May, 2011 - 10:35
The Arctic is under threat from oil drillers

Arctic: our modern-day Thule needs protecting

Medieval geographers referred to very distant places as Ultima Thule, beyond the "borders of the known world", but even before that, as far back the classical...
Posted by ben - 25 May, 2011 - 13:22
The Arctic resource scramble is sparking military tension

Wikileaks reveals Arctic could be the new cold war

UPDATE: Watch BBC Newsnight's feature on the Wikileaks Arctic files Submarine explorers planting Russian flags under the North Pole. Military tension between...
Posted by jamess - 12 May, 2011 - 15:35

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