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	Stop Esso campaign: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Stop Esso France was sued by Esso, who alleged falling profits because the...Stop Esso France was sued by Esso, who alleged falling profits because the campaign used a parody...
		The Stop Esso campaign is a campaign by Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and People and Planet[?] aimed at boycotting the oil company Esso because they believe it's doing a lot of damage to the environment.
		Stop Esso France was sued by Esso, who alleged falling profits because the campaign used a parody Esso logo featuring dollar signs in place of the letters "ss".
	www.encyclopedian.com /st/Stop-Esso-campaign.html (280 words)

	Stop Esso campaign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Stop Esso campaign is a campaign by Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and People and Planet aimed at boycotting the oil company Esso, known as ExxonMobil in the U.S., because they believe it is doing damage to the environment.
		Esso claimed that the $$ resemble the SS of the Nazi paramilitary organization [1].
		Esso pledged to cease this practice by 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stop_Esso_campaign (491 words)

	Ipsos MORI - Petrol Buyers Would Boycott Esso
		The Stop Esso Campaign was launched on Tuesday 8th May 2001 by an alliance of Britain's leading environmental groups: Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and the student group People and Planet.
		The Stop Esso Campaign is calling on the public not to buy any Esso products until the US based oil company changes their position on the Kyoto global warming treaty.
		The campaign is calling for a boycott of all Esso petrol stations and pledge their support at www.stopesso.com.
	www.mori.com /polls/2001/stopesso.shtml (494 words)

	Campaign ExxonMobil
		The Stop Esso Campaign is calling on the public not to buy any Esso products until the US based oil company changes their stand on global warming.
		Esso are the financial power behind George Bush - Esso donated more dollars than any other oil company to help Bush win the election and soon reaped the rewards when Bush ditched an international agreement to stop global warming.
		The campaign will be urging the British public to avoid all Esso petrol stations and pledge their support at http://www.stopesso.com.
	www.campaignexxonmobil.org /news/PR.ESSO.boycott.html (718 words)

	Greenpeace: Choose Clean Energy - Stop Climate Change
		Esso admits that it has a ‘vested interest’ in stopping governments from taking action on climate change.
		Esso even denies that climate change is caused by the burning of fossil fuels and has spent millions of dollars funding front organisations to reinforce its position.
		In fact Esso would like to see a massive increase in fossil fuel use over the next 20 years - a scenario that would send climate change spiralling out of control.
	www.greenpeace.org.uk /climate/climatecriminals/esso/index.cfm (319 words)

	Shepway FoE newsletters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Campaigners from Shepway FOE took part in the third nationwide day of protest against petrol company Esso, "the world's number one global warming villain".
		Esso is the biggest corporation in the world and has worked hard over the last decade to block action to stop global warming.
		Esso thinks it is too big for the rest of us to stop it wrecking the planet.
	www.kare-uk.org /foe/stopesso-3.htm (344 words)

	Stop Esso Picket
		The Stop Esso campaign is calling on the public not to buy any Esso products until the company changes its stand on global warming and stops interfering in international negotiations to tackle climate change.
		Esso (also known as ExxonMobil) is the most powerful company in the world, and one of the biggest.
		It is no coincidence that Esso's campaign has met with increasing success since George W Bush entered the White House.
	www.easf.org.uk /more.php?id=20 (429 words)

	Observer \| Let's hear it for the boycott
		The Stop Esso campaign reached new heights last week when Greenpeace activists abseiled onto the roof of the company's UK headquarters in Surrey, shutting it down in protest against the firm's environmental policies.
		The Stop Esso campaign, however, claims there was a 7 per cent drop in regular petrol buyers by June 2002.
		Cindy Baxter of the Stop Esso campaign says: 'We saw this at last year's Exxon Mobil AGM where 20 per cent of shareholders ($55 billion - £35m - worth of shares) supported a resolution against the company on renewable energy.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4616300-111198,00.html (1153 words)

	The case against ESSO-EXXON The Stop Esso campaign 12apr01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Esso continue to deny the link between their business and global warming, and use their power and dollars to derail international negotiations on action to save the climate.
		Esso are members of USCIB, a corporate lobby group that actively support the Bush Administration's rejection of the Kyoto Protocol.
		Esso are still claiming that: "scientifically unfounded scare scenarios were and continue to be promoted in an effort to justify the (Kyoto) Protocor.
	www.mindfully.org /Air/Case-Against-ESSO-Exxon.htm (1448 words)

	People & Planet - Previous People & Planet campaigns
		The Stop Esso campaign was launched in May 2001, in response to George W Bush’s announcement that the US would not ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the only international treaty to help reduce climate change.
		Esso’s influence over the Bush administration’s climate change policy was publicly revealed in 2005, proving what the Stop Esso campaign had been claiming for years!
		At the beginning of the campaign only 3 universities bought any of their electricity from renewable sources - now there are over 60, with green energy contracts worth a total of £31 million, preventing the release of 275,285 tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year.
	peopleandplanet.org /campaigns/previouscampaigns (397 words)

	Warwick Boar - Opinion
		The decision of Esso, Exxon’s UK arm, to withdraw from university recruitment fairs has been predictably celebrated by Stop Esso as a triumph of popular pressure against ‘unethical’ companies.
		Every environmentalist’s favourite statistic - repeated endlessly on the Stop Esso website - is that the USA accounts for five percent of the world’s population and 25 percent of the world’s carbon emissions, but they are curiously reluctant to mention that it also accounts for 30 percent of the world’s economic output.
		Stop Esso ally with their equally witless comrades in the anti-war movement to cite oil as the motive behind American foreign policy towards the Middle East.
	www.sunion.warwick.ac.uk /boar/?article=2534 (446 words)

	People's Climate Lobby Blockade Erdington Esso Depot
		The Stop Esso campaign, going under the banner of the "People's Climate Lobby" are blockading the terminal to draw attention to Esso's appalling record on action against climate change and are asking people to boycott the company until they clean up their act.
		Esso's scientific studies rank alongside the tobacco companies' denial of the cigarette/cancer connection for crude bias; all they do is weaken political and public resolve to act on global warming
		Stop Esso is an umbrella organisation of several environmental pressure groups: Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and People and Planet.
	www.birminghamfoe.org.uk /press/Esso_Blockade_2001_09_18.htm (530 words)

	Friends of the Earth Scotland - Press Releases
		The Stop Esso Campaign is an alliance founded by Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and People and Planet.
		The Stop Esso Campaign is calling on the public not to buy any Esso products until the US based oil company changes their stand on global warming and joins the rest of the world in fighting to prevent it.
		The campaign will be urging Scots to avoid all Esso petrol stations and pledge their support at http://www.stopesso.com.
	www.foe-scotland.org.uk /press/pr20010504.html (531 words)

	Fight Esso's censorship \| Greenpeace International
		Esso says the logo, which replaces the "SS" with dollar signs, damages Esso's reputation, but they don't want to talk about the content of the site and the real problem with their reputation.
		Although Esso may be able to stifle debate in France, the international campaign has moved the censored French site to Texas – oil hotbed and the home of Esso's parent company ExxonMobil.
		The decision by the French court is not just a blow to the Stop Esso campaign, but may pave the way for corporations and governments to silence voices worldwide speaking out against environmental and human rights abuses.
	www.greenpeace.org /international/news/fight-esso-s-censorship-2 (547 words)

	Stop Esso campaign biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Stop Esso campaign is a campaign by Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and People and Planet aimed at boycotting the oil company Esso because they believe it is doing damage to the environment.
		Esso claimed that the $$ resemble the SS of the Nazi secret police[1].
		A French court came down on the side of Esso granting them an injunction against the French website, so the campaign moved their French web site to the USA.
	www.biography.ms /Stop_Esso_campaign.html (340 words)

	Forward March against Esso
		What’s more, Esso, alone of the major oil companies, has backed away from any commitment to clean, renewable energy, dropping their investment in solar cell technology in the early nineties.
		Stop using their money to buy political decisions about the environmental dangers which threaten us all.
		Stop the campaign of fear, uncertainty and doubt.
	www.birminghamfoe.org.uk /press/Esso_PR2.htm (505 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Protesters target Esso stations
		Esso says it has one of the best environment track records in the industry and accuses campaigners of trying to smear its name.
		The Stop Esso campaign is backed by Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and other groups.
		Esso spokesman David Eglinton added: "Esso's environmental track record is among the best in the industry worldwide.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1687041.stm (479 words)

	CNN.com - Motorists urged to boycott Esso - May 8, 2001
		The Stop Esso campaign was launched on Tuesday by Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and is backed by celebrities including Bianca Jagger, artist Damien Hirst and actor Ralph Fiennes.
		Bianca Jagger, the former wife of Rolling Stone Mick, who was at the launch of a billboard campaign in London, added: "Often we as individuals feel powerless in the face of this catastrophe that is unfolding.
		Esso said in a statement that the "counter-productive" boycott would have no effect on the U.S. government and could harm businesses in the UK.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/05/08/britain.esso/index.html (419 words)

	People & Planet Online - Stop Esso Student Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Stop Esso campaign is part of People and Planet’s broader climate change campaign, which currently also includes our Green Electricity campaign, to switch Britain’s universities to renewable power that does not contribute to climate change.
		Stop Esso is a coalition of People and Planet, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace.
		The Stop Esso campaign is part of People and Planet’s broader Climate Change campaign.
	www.peopleandplanet.org /stopesso (378 words)

	Warwick Boar - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Esso’s position is that they have never been unethical.
		Their activities included handing out leaflets and ‘Esso sucks’ lollies, and giving talks at the fairs to discourage students from applying to work for an unethical company.
		Esso’s major competitors, Shell and BP, are still touring the UK universities.
	www.sunion.warwick.ac.uk /boar/?article=2424 (261 words)

	Planet Ark - Esso dismisses allegations by Green campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The "Stop Esso" campaign encourages consumers not to buy fuel from the British arm of global oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp and has been running since May.
		Esso said it supports the development of a workable framework for climate change but thinks the Kyoto treaty, which omits developing countries, is not the right approach.
		Esso said it is too early to measure any impact the campaign might be having on sales.
	www.planetark.com /avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=12107 (327 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions \| stopesso.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Esso is also the world's most profitable corporation, but it refuses to invest a dime in renewable energy.
		Greenpeace has offices throughout the world and many of those offices are helping Stop Esso, sometimes in conjunction with national environmental groups in those countries.
		The first Stop Esso campaign continues in the UK, a joint campaign of Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and People and Planet.
	stopesso.ca /e/about/faq?menus_expanded[14]=0 (741 words)

	edie news centre - Oil companies face pressure on ethics
		The company said that when it left Ogoniland in 1993 after a campaign by locals would said that oil exploitation had harmed the environment and not benefited them in any way, only two of the 16 wells were “properly abandoned” and the rest were not subjected to “proper evacuation procedures”.
		The Stop Esso Campaign says that Esso has “been the most active company undermining” the Kyoto Protocol, “refuses to accept the link between their oil and global warming”, and “doesn’t invest any of their massive profits in renewable energy or green fuels”.
		The campaign, which counts on the support of several celebrities and politicians and The Body Shop, is urging the public to avoid all Esso petrol stations, pledge support on a website and targeting companies that buy Esso fuel in bulk and asking them to switch suppliers.
	www.edie.net /news/news_story.asp?id=4184 (684 words)

	Response to 'Stop Esso' campaign and other false allegations about climate change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Greenpeace claims that Esso "denies" climate change, or global warming, and is not doing enough to tackle the concerns associated with it.
		Esso has developed our refinery technology to produce "sulphur-free" petrol required by motor manufacturers for the introduction of lower CO2 emission vehicles later this decade.
		Esso is the world leader among the publicly quoted energy companies in the production and marketing of natural gas.
	www.exxonmobil.com /UK-English/Newsroom/UK_NR_VP_Viewpoint_StopEsso_july2005.asp (1292 words)

	Goldie - Stop Esso - Fri @ TBMC - Indymedia Ireland
		To campaign now for more drivers to be enabled to drive on the roads is to campaign for the destruction of the environment of the working class and to campaign for their deaths.
		To throw oneself into a campaign which panders to the needs of a privileged minority when there is a lot of work that needs to be done to ensure safe cycling and rapid bus and train transport is questionable.
		MIJAG should be dropped and replaced by a campaign that calls for extra buses to be provided on the routes where the current membership of MIJAG finds that there are no buses that they can take to their jobs.
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=60513 (9182 words)

	David Suzuki News Jul 04, 2002: Prominent environmental groups join together on 'Stop Esso' campaign
		Unlike other major oil companies, Esso has consistently refused to accept the scientific consensus that climate change is made worse by burning fossil fuels and needs to be addressed.
		Instead of acting against climate change, Esso lobbies against the Kyoto Protocol’s cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, doesn’t invest in renewable energy and spreads misinformation about climate change’s science.
		Canada’s campaign is part of a global campaign to StopEsso, a brand of Imperial Oil, of which 70 per cent is owned by ExxonMobil.
	www.davidsuzuki.org /Campaigns_and_Programs/Climate_Change/News_Releases/newsclimatechange07040201.asp (493 words)

	Oil Giants Get Slick with Bid for New Image - Security Council - Global Policy Forum
		Big Oil may have started doling out jobs to some of its detractors, but the residue of campaigners have, if anything, intensified their battle, especially against US company Exxon, which is also the biggest.
		President Bush's campaign funding, his appointment of a string of former oil executives to powerful positions in Washington, Dick Cheney's Energy Review, the withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol and even the notion of renewed conflict in the Gulf are suggestive of a slick behind-the-scenes lobbying operation.
		Stickers, petitions, leaflets, adverts and posters encourage the public to Stop Esso by boycotting it in a manner avoided by BP.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/natres/oil/2003/0204dirty.htm (1281 words)

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