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30/05/2002 StopEsso statement to ExxonMobil AGMMy name is Cindy Baxter, the coordinator of the United Kingdom StopEsso campaign. Last year, Bianca Jagger announced at this meeting that we had launched our campaign. I’m here today to deliver our annual report. I’m going to tell you about the effect your global warming policy has had on the public perception of the company. In the last 12 months, StopEsso has gained widespread support from across UK society, from mainstream and well-respected environmental organisations and conservative institutions, totalling around one million members, from scientists to politicians, from schoolchildren to the media. At least five municipal authorities have voted to support our campaign and stop buying your gas. As a result, Esso UK had to remove its name from its largest single sponsorship event in the UK, because it was worried that the use of Esso’s name would damage the event. And there is absolutely no doubt that your global warming policy is damaging your reputation – your company’s brand. It will suffer further damage … because the campaign is now going global. The last two weeks has seen consumer action against Exxon in France, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Switzerland, Norway, Ireland, Luxembourg and Spain. In the UK, thousands of citizens protested outside 400 Esso gas stations to tell other drivers about their opposition to your global warming policies. And today, as I speak, the StopEsso campaign is being launched in Germany, your largest single European market, accounting for just under ten per cent (9.2%) of your global profits in 2000. This is a country where Greenpeace has half a million members and the Greens form part of the Government. All this because of ExxonMobil’s policy of deny, deceive and delay on global warming and encouraging, aiding and supporting the Bush Administration’s retreat from international action on climate change. We want to see ExxonMobil become a responsible corporation -- to support, not undermine, the Kyoto Treaty. To invest in renewable energy. Most of all, we want you to admit the indisputable truth: that the combustion of fossil fuels is warming the planet. And until then, let me assure you:
[Previous press release: "Activists Stop Esso at France's biggest refinery"] |
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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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