Volkswagen is lobbying against critical environmental laws
After three months of our campaign to turn VW away from the Dark Side, millions of views to our campaign film and over 440,000 Jedi emails and phone calls later, Volkswagen have finally responded to us with a letter.
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24 October 2011 at 1:31pm -
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The downside of campaigning on climate change at Greenpeace is that you often end up doing actions in the most inhospitable of locations - coal stations, nuke sites, oil rigs.
When I heard that VW was hosting a conference in Ibiza, it conjured a different image. I couldn't help but imagine hundreds of car salesman sweating through their suits in one of its many 'banging' nightclubs, perhaps blowing a whistle or reaching for the lasers.
Daniel Beltra wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year for this photo
Today, I have the honour of congratulating Greenpeace photographer Daniel Beltra on becoming the Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
Daniel made his winning picture for Greenpeace, of oil-oaked brown
pelicans at a temporary bird-rescue facility in Fort Jackson, Louisiana,
while documenting the environmental impacts caused by the BP Deepwater
Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
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.
Cairn's rig - the most controversial in the world - about to start Arctic drilling
While our campaign to save the Arctic
from risky oil drilling has been playing out in Greenlandic
waters and Dutch
courtrooms over the past few weeks, the UK
government has stayed fairly quiet on the question of deepwater oil
drilling in the Arctic.
Today an Amsterdam court judge turned the tables on Cairn Energy. Rather than granting an injunction against Greenpeace, he instead suggested that the oil company might actually like to consider releasing its secret Arctic Oil Spill Response Plan!
Our activists arrested after boarding Cairn's arctic rig
Today our mission to protect the Arctic moves from the frozen seas of Greenland into the courts of Amsterdam and Greenland.
After our first occupation of its oil rig at the beginning of last week Cairn filed for an injunction
with the courts in Amsterdam. The injunction is aimed at preventing us
taking any further action to stop drilling in the Arctic. It would mean
we’d be fined two million euros for every day any future protest stops
drilling on the company’s Arctic oil rigs.
18 of our activists scale Cairn's Arctic rig to get the oil spill response plan
Update: After eight hours, all 18 activists have been arrested. More >>
It never really gets dark here in the Arctic but in the soft silver
light of the early morning five inflatable speedboats left the side of
the Esperanza. They carried a delegation of eighteen activists and
headed for the giant Leiv Eiriksson looming on the horizon.
This morning we started taking direct action against the world's most controversial oil rig: Cairn Energy's Arctic driller, the 53,000 tonne Leiv Eiriksson, which was hours away from its drill site in Iceberg Alley off Greenland.
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