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Environmentalists protesting against ExxonMobil's attitude towards climate change seem to have hit a raw nerve with the supermajor, which has come out fighting in a bid to defend its reputation. Upstream - November 15, 2001 Full article Kicking up a stink at EssoUS supermajor fights fallout of green offensive Environmentalists protesting against ExxonMobil's attitude towards climate change seem to have hit a raw nerve with the supermajor, which has come out fighting in a bid to defend its reputation. In Britain a nationwide Stop Esso campaign -- backed by Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and student group People & Planet -- has been calling on motorists to boycott the supermajor as one of a number of moves designed to exert pressure on the company. While the real effects of such boycotts are questionable, there is little doubt that having its reputation dragged through the mud by such a noisy campaign is proving a difficult experience for the US heavyweight, particularly in Europe. ExxonMobil's subsidiary Esso is being hit by student protests around the UK. Its graduate recruitment process has been hampered by campus demonstrations by People & Planet, which has followed the company around universities telling fellow students of its poor environmental record. At Cambridge University students were recently greeted by the unusual sight of protestors in swimware trying to draw attention to sponsorship links between its department of chemical engineering and the supermajor. Esso has endeavoured to counter these protests with a letter that it has included in information handed out to potential recruits -- one of a number of moves made within the past few weeks to rebuff protestors' claims. However, not all of Esso's public relations efforts have proved particularly well targeted. Following the recent Greenpeace Business conference in London -- packed with company representatives from a range of business areas -- Esso wrote to all attendees warning them over "the misleading portrait of our company". Greenpeace had invited Esso to attend its conference but it failed to show up. The supermajor's concern centred around a publication called 'A Decade of Dirty Tricks' in which the environmental group cites 25 ways where, it claims, the supermajor has tried to sabotage the Kyoto climate change process. Unfortunately for Esso the Greenpeace publication was not, as it thought, included in delegates' conference packs. By drawing so much attention to the document Esso has ensured bestseller status for 'A Decade of Dirty Tricks', which is now very much in demand.
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Latest Campaign News KYOTO MARCH - Saturday 12 February 2005 In February the Kyoto Protocol finally comes into force. Join the Campaign Against Climate Change on a march in central London to mark the occassion by protesting the US' refusal to join the Protocol. Assemble at Lincoln's Inn Fields at 11.30. For more information go to www.campaign againstclimatechange.net Esso up to old tricks on Kyoto Governments from around the world met in Buenos Aires to discuss protecting the climate under the Kyoto Protocol. Greenpeace sent a delegation to the conference to keep an eye on the activities of Esso and other fossil fuel lobbies.more "Global warming is a conspiracy against America" As a taste of what is to come during a second Bush term Myron Ebell, an advisor to President Bush on climate issues, recently argued that global warming is a myth cooked up by the EU to 'hamper American competitiveness'... more Russia Ratifies The Russian parliament have voted to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, which brings the treaty into force... more Chief Scientist: we need immediate action on climate change "Action is affordable, inaction is certainly not," says Sir David King, the UK governments chief scientist...more |
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