Blogposts tagged 'Beyond Oil'

BP plans risk world's biggest pollution disaster

Posted by vickywyatt - 12 October 2011 at 10:45am - 4 Comments
Deepwater horizon oil spill seen from space
by. Credit: NASA
The Deepwater Horizon spill seen from space

BP are hoping that everyone has forgotten about the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year, and are quietly putting in place plans to drill in the deep waters off of the west of Shetland, risking an even bigger disaster.

Article tagged as: beyond oil, BP, deep water drilling, deepwater horizon, oil, oil spill, shetlands, spill response plan, uist

The government's wrong turn on 80mph

Posted by emmagibson - 30 September 2011 at 3:55pm - 6 Comments
By pushing for strong European emissions laws, we can save a lot of oil
All rights reserved. Credit: © Greenpeace / Philip Reynaers
Government plans to increase the motorway speed limit are madness

I don't find myself agreeing with Jeremy Clarkson (well, Clarkson 2002) very often but transport minister Phillip Hammond really did get it wrong last night when he announced his intention to raise the motorway speed limit to 80mph.

Article tagged as: beyond oil, cars, climate, climate change, hammond, oil, UK

Massive projection to show VW's Dark Side - take action now!

Posted by jamess - 8 September 2011 at 9:51am - 20 Comments

Our campaign to turn VW away from its dark lobbying practices has entered a new phase.

Today we need you to put pressure where Volkswagen’s massive advertising budgets can’t dominate: on social media.

 Here’s what you can do right now:

Article tagged as: beyond oil, climate, climate change, go beyond oil, oil, volkswagen, VW, VWDarkside

VW's Dark Side: our campaign enters a new phase

Posted by jamess - 8 September 2011 at 9:40am - 0 Comments
Volkswagen is lobbying against environmental laws
All rights reserved. Credit: David Sandison / Greenpeace
Volkswagen is lobbying against environmental laws

Today our climbers scaled VW’s headquarters in Germany while other activists projected a massive message onto the side of London’s Battersea power station – where Volkswagen is participating in a green car show.

Our actions kick off a new phase in our VW campaign – we will not let the car giant’s lobbying continue to threaten our planet.

Article tagged as: beyond oil, climate change, co2, ecovelocity, go beyond oil, oil, volkswagen, VW, VWDarkside

Who's going to defend the Arctic?

Posted by jamess - 18 January 2011 at 5:43pm - 13 Comments
Oil companies are taking their drills to the Arctic
All rights reserved. Credit: Nick Cobbing / Greenpeace
Oil companies are taking their drills to the Arctic

The masters at Marvel comics would struggle to find bad guys worse than these.

Take two of the world’s biggest environmental villains – Russian Rosneft (special powers: oil leaks. 7,526 in 2009 alone) and British BP (special powers: oil spills. Gulf of Mexico, 2010).

Article tagged as: arctic, beyond oil, BP, climate, climate change, go beyond oil, ice, rosneft

Why don't you want an oil job?

Posted by jamess - 14 January 2011 at 12:13pm - 17 Comments
The question is: has big oil ever had the brightest minds? (BP boss Hayward in f
All rights reserved. Credit: Daniel Beltrá / Greenpeace
The question is: has big oil ever had the brightest minds? (BP boss Hayward in front of world's worst oil spill)

Want to be this man? Apparently not.

Yesterday someone pointed me to an article on the BBC lamenting the drop in young brains chasing jobs in the dirty oil sector. It seems that having lost the battle for our hearts many moons ago, the oil industry has now officially lost the battle for our minds, too.

Article tagged as: beyond oil, BP, climate, go beyond oil, jobs, students

Keep on truckin'

Posted by vickywyatt - 13 January 2011 at 5:49pm - 1 Comment
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
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