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24/07/2002 Uncensored StopE$$o French site sets up in Texas, home of ExxonMobilLondon-24 July 2002 -The International StopEsso campaign has today set up a new and uncensored French language website in Texas, following Esso’s legal action against Greenpeace France over its internet use of the company’s logos. The site, complete with the French logos Exxon’s French subsidiary Esso sued over, is on a server outside Houston, Texas, near parent company ExxonMobil’s controversial Baytown refinery. Earlier this month a French Court supported a bid by Esso France to ban Greenpeace France from using a parody of the Esso logo on its French website. The logo, which replaces the ‘SS’ with dollar signs, has been used by the now global StopEsso campaign since its inception in the UK in May last year. “Esso’s efforts to stamp out protest in France have backfired. We’ve now got a new site in French, hosted in Exxon’s back yard, and more people have now seen the campaign than ever before,” said Cindy Baxter of the UK StopEsso coalition. Greenpeace International’s Stephanie Tunmore said: “The real issue here is Esso’s sabotage of international action on climate change, but Esso’s attempts to gag a key part of the campaign through the courts has made this a free speech issue as well.” “The International StopEsso Campaign decided to set up this website in ExxonMobil’s back yard because we believe that every citizen in every country, speaking whatever language, has a right to know the lengths this company will go to in its efforts to carry on business as usual,” said Tunmore. The site launches a new StopE$$o logo competition, as well as other actions: to send an internet card of the parodied logo, emailing Esso Paris, writing to the architect of ExxonMobil’s climate policy, CEO Lee Raymond. It also calls for other websites to mirror and link to it. Greenpeace France’s site will continue at http://www.greenpeace.fr/stopesso, but has stopped using the logos as ordered. Greenpeace France has not been involved in setting up the new site. Notes to Editors * Its bid to get Greenpeace France to take the word Esso out of the source code to stop Google and other search engines from getting to StopEsso View the official court judgement
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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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