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Russia and Kyoto

Greenpeace activists prevent the oil tanker ' STOLT AUSTRALIA' from delivering Shale Oil to the Mobil oil refinery in South Australia Enlarge Image

Mobil fuels the flames of climate change

It was a scorcher at Mobil's Port Stanvac refinery in Adelaide, Australia today, where five Greenpeace activists spent six hours on an oil tanker anchored off port.

Fire at ExxonMobil's Staten Island storage facility. Enlarge Image

Fire at ExxonMobil Facility

A fire recently broke out at a gas storage facility owned and managed by the largest oil company in the world, ExxonMobil. A thorough search of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data, in conjunction with the Working Group on Community Right-to-Know, has failed to turn up a Risk Management Plan (RMP) for the Staten Island ExxonMobil fuel storage facility.

Activist tigers head for Exxon headquarters in Irving, Texas. Part of the Global Warming Crimes Unit, they charged Exxon with being climate criminal #1. Enlarge Image

Busting Exxon: climate criminal #1

How come we're the ones being arrested and not Exxon/Mobil executives? All we did was disrupt preparations for their annual general meeting, where they'll conduct business as usual. The real crime? Business as usual for ExxonMobil is frying the planet.

Over one million tonnes of oil were spilled into the world's oceans during the 1990s Enlarge Image

Karachi oil spill devastation

The biggest oil spill in the history of Pakistan is sickening people and destroying wildlife.

Absolute oil corrupts absolutely. Enlarge Image

Investigation of Exxon front group

Did conservative elements in the White House provoke an Exxon front group to sue EPA to suppress a report on climate change? That's the question that two State Attorney Generals have asked US Attorney General John Ashcroft to investigate, after Greenpeace uncovered a routine email in a Freedom of Information Act request.

Demanding Putin sign the Kyoto Protocol. Enlarge Image

A Russian gift for the Earth?

A Politician breaking a promise is nothing new. But when a broken promise could be putting the world in danger it's a big deal. Despite promises to sign up to tackle global warming, Russian president Putin seems to be playing roulette with the climate. On Putin's 51th birthday we are reminding him -- through actions in 19 countries -- that he is holding our future in his hands.

The UK's first wind farm in the Irish Sea which will supply 50,000 homes with power. Enlarge Image

UK launches first offshore windfarm

The UK's first major offshore wind farm has now been launched. It's situated off the coast of North Wales in the Irish Sea, and is now harnessing some of the UK's massive sea wind resource. It is a big step toward the only energy of the future - clean, green, renewable energy.

Greenpeace activists in 19 countries demonstrated in 2003 in front of Russian Embassies urging President Putin to sign the Kyoto Protocol. Enlarge Image

Putin gives Kyoto green light

George Bush's government is out in the cold over Kyoto - and it's that old Cold War enemy, Russia, that's put it there. The Russian government has moved closer towards ratifying the crucial Kyoto climate change treaty. But while Bush hangs out in hurricane-ravaged Florida before his first election debate, the US government continues to criticise the Kyoto Treaty.

Greenpeace activists in 19 countries demonstrated in 2003 in front of Russian Embassies urging President Putin to sign the Kyoto Protocol. Enlarge Image

Kyoto saved: not the planet

The Russian Parliament voted to ratify the Kyoto Protocol in a body blow to George W Bush's opposition to action on climate change.

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