Stop E$$O (or bust)

Saturday 18 May marked the 2nd National Day of
Action Against Esso during which over 400 petrol
stations were targeted across the country.
Campaigners and their friends in Greater Manchester,
under the Stop Esso banner, picketed virtually every
station in the area with placards, leaflets, stickers
and even a few dancing tigers, to get the message
out to the public.

Esso have been labelled the "Number 1 Global Warming Villain" by environmental
organisations, businesses and the public alike, for their unquestionable role in President
Bush's decision to pull out of the Kyoto Protocol. Their corporate campaigns undermine
climate science and they still refuse to invest in renewable energy sources preferring
instead to push ahead with oil exploration and extraction in more and more fragile parts of
the planet.

Despite the best efforts of campaigners, Esso have continued with their dirty tricks in their
mission to sabotage global action on climate change. In February this year Exxon released a
secret memo to the Whitehouse calling for the removal of Bob Watson as head of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change along with other "progressive" officials. The
memo criticises Watson for speaking out about the dangers of climate change. Esso are
also suing Greenpeace for the use of dollar signs in the Stop E$$O campaign. They claim
the Goth-scripted `$'s look like the symbol for the Waffen SS, and are concerned about
being taken for a bunch of Nazi's.... See www.stopesso.com