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22/01/2002  Lee Raymond GREENPEACE PRESS RELEASE BLAIR MEETS ‘DARTH VADER’ OF GLOBAL WARMING Greenpeace calls for UK Government to take a position on Esso boycott Greenpeace can reveal that Tony Blair is today secretly meeting the head of the company that effectively blocked the Kyoto agreement in America. Lee Raymond, who is meeting the Prime Minister at Downing Street, is the CEO of Exxon-Mobil - known as Esso in the UK. He has done more than anyone else to rubbish efforts to halt climate change. A consumer boycott of Esso is currently hitting the company in the UK. Greenpeace today calls on Tony Blair to support the Esso boycott if Lee Raymond tells him he won't back down on Kyoto. The company has close links to the Bush Adminstration and took adverts out in the USA calling on the new administration to rethink its support for the Kyoto climate convention. A few weeks later Bush announced that the US was leaving Kyoto. Esso has repeatedly questioned the science of climate change and despite record breaking profits of $17 billion last year it refuses to invest any money in renewable energy. Commenting on the visit Matthew Spencer, Head of Climate Campaign at Greenpeace said: “Blair has to come clean on what was agreed today - too much is at stake. Lee Raymond is the Darth Vader of global warming. He has used his company’s billions to systematically undermine action on climate change. His company has used dirty tricks to undermine the position that the UK Government has done so much to champion internationally through the Kyoto agreement. Its not enough for Blair to agree to disagree with this man - if he can’t persuade Esso to change its ways he should back the Stopesso boycott and make sure Government vehicles are not buying Esso Petrol.” The StopEsso campaign, set up by Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and Student network People & Planet was launched in following Bush’s withdrawal from Kyoto in Spring 2001. The campaign recently organised the largest ever environmental protest, with 3000 people picketing Esso petrol Stations around the UK on 1st December.
[Previous press release: "Stop Esso Day a Massive Success: 306 Esso Stations Boycotted"] |
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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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