{"id":21077,"date":"2019-02-26T15:35:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T15:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=21077"},"modified":"2019-11-06T09:47:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:47:30","slug":"how-you-can-help-protect-patagonia-from-shell-and-total","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/21077\/how-you-can-help-protect-patagonia-from-shell-and-total\/","title":{"rendered":"How you can help Protect Patagonia from Shell and Total"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you picture Patagonia, what comes to mind? Mountainous vistas as far as the eye can see? Majestic pumas? Giant, dinosaur-like Condors? Big Lakes and roaring rivers? Perhaps Indigenous Mapuche living since time immemorial among crystal blue streams, fields of wildflowers, and shimmering glaciers capping the mountaintops?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dozens of Greenpeace Argentina activists blockade the entrance to a toxic waste facility in the north of Argentina.<\/p><\/div>\n

Now imagine you are an oil executive working at Shell or Total \u2014\u00a0two of the companies that are have begun to frack Patagonia. What do you think they see when they look at Patagonia? Some of the world\u2019s last untapped, hardest-to-access oil and gas? Dollar signs? We know they\u2019re aware of the climate crisis this kind of extreme oil extraction is unleashing on the world. <\/span><\/p>\n

So today, dozens of brave activists, backed by a global movement of millions of <\/span>People Vs Oil,<\/span><\/a> are saying \u201cnot on our watch!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The activists carried banners bearing the messages \u201cStop Fracking Patagonia\u201d in Spanish and English, calling for an end to the oil age.<\/p><\/div>\n

Please, click here now and sign to join the global movement to end the oil age! <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Early this morning, 33 activists from Greenpeace Argentina infiltrated a site near the fracking operations in Patagonia, to block trucks carrying toxic oily waste from fracking operations. Oil companies, including Shell and Total, are using an illegal dump where the waste is discarded directly onto the soil, close to a residential area and one of the region\u2019s major water supplies. In December, after a six-month investigation into the activities at this site, we wrote to the oil companies in question to inform them of the results of our investigation, and gave them fair warning that we were going public with what we had unveiled. Since then, they have yet to take any action \u2014\u00a0so we had to. <\/span><\/p>\n

Oil companies risking polluting the waters of Indigenous Peoples while ignoring community opposition and paying only lip-service to the planet-changing impacts of their \u201cbusiness\u201d model? <\/span><\/p>\n

I know what you\u2019re thinking … \u201cNow, where we have heard that before\u2026.?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Local regulations require that hazardous waste treatment or disposal facilities be at least 8km away from people and towns, and at least 5 km away from bodies of water and crops. The landfill is also located 5 km away from the A\u00f1elo community, 4.9 km from agricultural fields and 3.7 km from the Neuquen River, which infringes Neuquen\u2019s Provincial Law, and Argentina\u2019s General Law on Environment.<\/p><\/div>\n

If it sounds all too familiar, that\u2019s because it is. You\u2019ve seen \u2014 and stopped \u2014\u00a0this very thing many times before. <\/span><\/p>\n

Over the last few years, millions of people just like you have come together to put an end to similar reckless behaviour by <\/span>Shell in the Alaskan Arctic<\/span><\/a>. You took to the streets and <\/span>rose up against big banks financing climate-killing pipelines <\/span><\/a>that snake across North America, infringing on the rights of Indigenous Peoples and poisoning water supplies at every turn. <\/span><\/p>\n

And when Total tried to drill the precious <\/span>Amazon Reef, two million of you gathered from across the world to fight back \u2014\u00a0and won<\/span><\/a>! In 2016, after immense public pressure, <\/span>BP withdrew its plans to drill in the Great Australian Bight <\/span><\/a>\u2014\u00a0and Equinor keeps delaying. And, after nearly a decade of fighting Big Oil in New Zealand, you helped bring about a <\/span>ban on new offshore oil and gas licenses<\/span><\/a>! <\/span><\/p>\n

This peaceful action today is part of a <\/span>global movement of people all around the world<\/span><\/a> who are standing up against Big Oil and demanding accountability from some of the world\u2019s richest and most powerful corporations \u2014\u00a0like Shell and Total \u2014\u00a0that are at the forefront of blocking climate justice.<\/span><\/p>\n

A dramatic report issued in October by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)<\/span><\/a>, laid out in no uncertain terms that we are way off track for limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees, and in fact <\/span>heading toward catastrophic 3 degree change. <\/span><\/a>This means millions of lives at stake, a human migrant crisis on a scale we\u2019ve never seen, massive drought, food shortages … I could go on, but I think we all get the hella depressing, over-the-top gist.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The toxic landfill site, equivalent in size to 15 football fields, is used by oil companies that are fracking Patagonia.<\/p><\/div>\n

This is the moment we must urgently keep oil in the ground \u2014 not open new fossil fuel frontiers like Patagonia. Already <\/span>youth around the world<\/span><\/a> are rising up to demand climate action, and their bravery is showing politicians we are not willing to wait any longer. But it will take all of us, in every corner of the world, drawing a line and protecting the places we hold dear. <\/span><\/p>\n

We are the generation that ends oil.<\/b><\/p>\n

Join us!<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jess Wilson is a senior global strategist with Greenpeace International<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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