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How big oil tries to win us over using stealth tactics

Blog entry by Ben Ayliffe | 12 June, 2014 6 comments

What does it take to run a successful, modern oil company? You'd be forgiven for thinking it's just drills, pipelines, and lawyers. But there's an even more crucial element - the trust and approval of people like you and me. One...

Greenpeace denounces (in astroturf) US big oil’s dirty tricks campaign

Press release | 18 August, 2009 at 2:00

Greenpeace activists today used astroturf to spell out "CLIMATE FRAUD, FUNDED BY BIG OIL" with logos of oil giants ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and Chevron outside the offices of the American Petroleum Institute (API) in Washington.

Message to Obama: Climate leaders don’t buy tar sands

Press release | 15 September, 2009 at 19:32

Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada - 15 September 2009 - As Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper prepares to meet US President Barack Obama in Washington, 25 Greenpeace activists from Canada, the US, and France have blocked a mining operation at...

Oil memo

Publication | 18 August, 2009 at 2:00

An American Petroleum Institute (API) memo, leaked to Greenpeace last week, called on the CEOs of some of the world’s biggest oil companies (including ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and Chevron) to involve their employees in anti US climate action rallies...

Top 5 websites that deserve oil spills?

Blog entry by Brian | 13 July, 2010

You may have seen A Cleaner Future's Instant Oil Spill already, but if you haven't, it's a way to create a virtual oil spill on any website. Unlike a real spill, it cleans up instantly and does no real damage. It's a super way to get...

The 5 important lessons not learnt from Deepwater Horizon

Blog entry by JulietteH | 20 April, 2012 5 comments

The second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster is upon us - and looking at the lessons the oil industry got from it, you’d think it never happened. Here are the most important points governments and oil companies didn’t...

Greenpeace activists shut down BP gas stations all over London

Blog entry by LisaV | 27 July, 2010 20 comments

This morning, starting at 5.30am, teams of Greenpeace volunteers shut down 50 BP stations across London. The teams - each named after an animal threatened by BP's reckless oil exploration - fanned out across the capital in their...

Fool me once...

Blog entry by JulietteH | 6 July, 2010 1 comment

... shame on you. It has become completely obvious to anyone reading news on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that BP grossly inflated their response capacity and underestimated the worst case scenario in their official...

Greg Palast on the "cussedness" of Greenpeace

Blog entry by Greg Palast | 2 December, 2011 1 comment

In 2010, in the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, we gave iconaclastic  investigative journalist Greg Palast a ride in one of our inflatable boats, so that he could bear witness to parts of the Gulf of Mexico shoreline...

BP oil disaster one-year anniversary

Blog entry by Andrew Davies | 20 April, 2011 3 comments

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill . Lamar Billups, a lifelong resident of the US gulf coast, remembers the spill and reflects on the harm done... I remember the first time I smelled the...

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