Canadian High Commissioner’s Visit to Oxford Tarred by Local Protest
Oxford, UK- Canadian High Commissioner to the UK, Gordon Campbell, was greeted with protests at Oxford University on Friday. Local community members held a banner which read “Keep Tar Sands out of Europe” at the entrance to Lady Margaret Hall as Campbell arrived to deliver a seminar at the college. “Canada is promoting tar sands oil as a clean and ethical energy source, when we know that the exact opposite is the case,” said Suzanne Dhaliwal, from the UK Tar Sands Network. “Entire ecosystems are being destroyed and communities are being devastated in order to extract this highly polluting source of oil.” Campbell, the former premier of British Columbia, has been on a persistent campaign to promote Canadian tar sands […]
Read More…‘Tar Sands Oil Orgy’ blockades Canada House in London
Canada-EU Energy Summit disrupted as Canada’s aggressive lobbying threatens EU climate legislation Yesterday morning an ‘oil orgy’ performance-protest disrupted the Canada Europe Energy Summit, at Canada House, in London. The annual energy summit was hosted by Canadian High Commissioner Gordon Campbell and featured top officials from Shell, Total and Enbridge, along with Conservative Energy and Climate Minister John Hayes (who has recently received media attention for an alleged plot to promote the anti-wind farm agenda in the Coalition Government). The aim of the event was to promote Canada’s tar sands in Europe, and discussions included how to deal with ‘public policy risks’ such as impending European transport legislation which would discourage imports https://www.no-tar-sands.org/files/category/latestupdates/press-releases/page/of highly-polluting fuels like tar sands into the eu […]
Read More…‘Oil Orgy’ protest to blockade Canada House : Canada’s ‘Dirty Diplomacy’ threatening EU climate legislation
Protesters will blockade the annual Canada Europe Energy Summit, on Tuesday November 20th at 8:30 am with a performance-style protest. They will be joined by Indigenous Chief Phil Lane from Canada, who will talk about the devastating impacts of tar sands development on First Nations communities in Canada. The protest, co-ordinated by UK Tar Sands Network, London Rising Tide, People & Planet, Climate Justice Collective, Climate Rush, Occupy Energy, Environment and Equity Group, Corporate Watch and Climate Action Network Canada will involve activists blocking the entrance to Canada House as delegates arrive. The blockade will take the form of street theatre, with participants playing enthusiastic representatives of the oil industry, encouraging people to join the ‘oil orgy’ and holding speech […]
Read More…Tar sands ‘dirty oil’ could soon be coming to Pembrokeshire, UK
US company Valero admits plans to import https://www.no-tar-sands.org/files/category/latestupdates/press-releases/page/highly-polluting oil to uk, locals vow to oppose it a new report published by the uk tar sands network, corporate watch and pembrokeshire friends of the earth reveals that us energy company valero is expecting to bring increasing quantities of oil derived from the controversial tar sands to locations around the uk, including pembrokeshire, wales. according to the report, “tar sands coming to town”, valero purchased the pembroke refinery in august 2011 as part of its plans to increase diesel exports to europe, particularly the uk and ireland. the company plans for a rapidly growing portion of this diesel to originate from the tar sands in alberta, canada. the canadian tar sands industry […]
Read More…Activists disrupt speeches by Canadian Minister and Shell Chairman
Anti-tar sands campaigners claim Canada and Shell are ‘strangling climate action’ Today at a high-level conference on climate change at Chatham House, London, two activists interrupted first Peter Kent, Canada’s Environment Minister, then Shell’s UK Chairman Graham van’t Hoff, as they got up to make speeches. The conference attendees included EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres and Professor Thomas Stocker from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. There was laughter at the tongue-in-cheek speeches which referred to Kent as an “agent from a rogue petro-state” and Shell as “world-class greenwashers”, and the audience listened attentively for several minutes, before the activists were removed by security. Anti-tar sands campaigner removed from the stage while interrupting Shell Chairman […]
Read More…Shell besieged by critics at Annual General Meeting
Many questions left unanswered for Indigenous representatives impacted by Arctic drilling and Alberta Tar Sands in The Hague, whilst ‘Grim Reapers’ stalked the satellite AGM in London. See this video and more at Indymedia London Today, Indigenous representatives affected by the Alberta Tar Sands and proposed Arctic drilling addressed Shell executives and shareholders at Shell’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in The Hague, to highlight their concerns with Shell’s operations and lack of adequate consultation with their communities. Meanwhile at the London satellite AGM (connected to The Hague by live video), protesters dressed as ‘Grim Reapers’ in Shell death-masks stood silently during the proceedings. The four-hour meeting was dominated by criticism by shareholders over Shell’s social and environmental performance, particularly in […]
Read More…Shell under fire from Indigenous Peoples over human rights abuses and environmental destruction in Canada, Alaska and Nigeria
For immediate release: 17.5.2012 Report to be launched in London on Friday at a public meeting before the delegation travels to The Hague for next week’s Annual General Meeting of Royal Dutch Shell. London, UK – This Friday 18th May the Indigenous Environmental Network in partnership with Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation are launching an Indigenous-led campaign against Shell and its harmful projects. A delegation of four Indigenous peoples [1] from North America will participate in the public launch of a report profiling the British-Dutch company’s increasing involvement in the world’s dirtiest and riskiest energy projects. The launch event, ‘Get the Shell Out’ [2], is taking place at 7.30pm at Toynbee Hall, East London, with opportunities from 6.30pm for media interviews. […]
Read More…Tar Monster caught by climate campaigners on the streets of Oxford
Tar Monster caught by climate campaigners on the streets of Oxford Oxford Joins Global Demonstration to “Connect the Dots” Between Extreme Weather and Extreme Energy Today, May 5th 2012 a Tar Monster was on the loose in Cornmarket Street as part of an international day of action on climate change. The tar monster was caught by a dozen campaigners who called to stop the extraction of Canadian Tar Sands and connected the dots between extreme energy projects and extreme weather events. “Tar sands fuel releases three to five more greenhouse emissions that conventional oil and is driving the planet to irreversible climate change.” said Pete Barker, one of the organisers of the Oxford event said, “Rather than making the transition […]
Read More…Protesters dragged out of BP AGM after board avoids uncomfortable questions
BP’s Broken Promises, Annual General Meeting 2012 from Zoe Broughton on Vimeo. Gulf Coast residents cut short by Chair, and environmental questions brushed aside before meeting disrupted by “die-in” protest. BP’s Annual General Meeting this morning was once again an uncomfortable experience for the Board. They were confronted by questions on oil spills, tar sands, Olympic sponsorship and interplanetary escape pods, before nine people “died” in protest at the company’s contribution to climate change and human rights abuses, and were removed bodily from the room by security guards. Early in the meeting Bryan Parras, representing devastated communities on the Gulf Coast, began to explain how the financial and health impacts of BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill were still having a […]
Read More…Media Advisory: Anger at BP AGM over Gulf Coast cover-up
Representatives of devastated communities from Gulf Coast and Tar Sands regions to confront BP Board over failure to address environmental and social damage Press conference: 10.30am, Thursday 12th April, at base of steps on concourse outside the Excel Centre, London. AGM begins at 11.30am. For more information and interviews with community representatives [1] contact: Jess Worth (UK Tar Sands Network) on +44 (0)7807095669 Clayton Thomas-Muller (Indigenous Environmental Network) on +11 613 297 7515 Joshua Pelletier (Gulf Coast Fund) on +11 603 320 9569 Delegates representing communities along the US Gulf Coast – where the effects of BP’s 2010 oil drilling disaster continue to devastate coastal ecosystems, local livelihoods and residents’ health – will attempt to gain entry to BP’s […]
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