Why ExxonMobil? [boycott]
While the rest of the world is trying to stop global warming and
protect the planet for future generations, ExxonMobil is busy
drilling for more oil and polluting the atmosphere. What's worse,
ExxonMobil is doing its best to stop other countries' attempts
to prevent the world from heating up. Here are five reasons why
ExxonMobil is worse than other oil companies.
* ExxonMobil tries to convince the public
that global warming isn't happening even though ExxonMobil is
one of its main causes. It spends millions of dollars on misleading
propaganda every year.
* ExxonMobil has played a leading role in sabotaging international
attempts to stop global warming. It would rather sell more petrol
than protect future generations.
* ExxonMobil doesn't believe renewable energy has a future. "With
no readily available economic alternatives on the horizon, fossil
fuels will continue to supply most of the world's energy needs
for the foreseeable future." --Lee Raymond, ExxonMobil CEO,
1997
* ExxonMobil is the biggest oil company in the world - its profits
totalled more than US$12 billion in 2000. If anyone can afford
to help stop global warming it's ExxonMobil.
* ExxonMobil was one of the main financial contributors to George
Bush's election campaign. As soon as George Bush became president,
he announced that the US would pull out of international agreements
to stop global warming - exactly the position that ExxonMobil
was promoting. For further information, download our briefing
document The Case against Exxon (PDF file 41k). Also see Decade
of Dirty Tricks (PDF file 230k), Greenpeace's latest report on
Exxon's attempts to sabotage the Kyoto Protocol.
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Green Groups Launch ExxonMobil
Boycott
by Roddy Scheer
www.emagazine.com, July 19, 2005
A group of environmental and social justice
organizations have launched a coordinated campaign in protest
of petroleum giant ExxonMobil's efforts to cast doubts on the
science of global warming and attempts to lobby for opening the
still-pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling.
"On arctic drilling and global warming,
they are the worst of the worst," said Athan Manuel of U.S.
PIRG, an environmental group that has teamed up with the Sierra
Club, Greenpeace, MoveOn.org and others to mount the protest campaign.
Last week the groups held press conferences in 50 U.S. cities
to announce a global boycott of ExxonMobil's service stations
and products. They also launched the website exxposeexxon.com
to publicize their cause and gain support for the joint campaign.
The groups claim that ExxonMobil spent $15 million since 1998
to fund organizations that publicize junk science in order to
cloud the international debate about global warming. They also
accuse the company of failing to invest in clean energy technology,
and berate it for not paying $4 billion in punitive damages to
fishermen and others harmed by the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill.
The groups are also appalled by the company's open desire to drill
in ANWR, even though other major oil companies have pulled out
support for drilling in the disputed area.
In response, ExxonMobil spokesperson Russ Roberts told reporters
that the company recognizes global warming risks and will be investing
$100 million over the next decade in climate research as such.
Regarding ANWR drilling, Roberts said his company supports environmentally
responsible development there. "We believe that with more
than 30 years of industry experience on Alaska's North Slope and
with recent technological advancements, ANWR can be developed
with little threat to the ecology of the Coastal Plain,"
he said.
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CINDY SHEEHAN, HOWARD ZINN AMONG
NOTED LEADERS FOR PEACE ENDORSING THE EXXONMOBIL WAR BOYCOTT
http://traprockpeace.org/exxonmobil_war_boycott/,
March 21, 2006
The ExxonMobil War Boycott campaign announces endorsements by
Cindy Sheehan, Howard Zinn, and a host of internationally known
activists and writers, with support from national and regional
peace and justice organizations.
Consumers for Peace launched the boycott campaign on December
29, 2005, seeking an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops and mercenaries
from Iraq and the impeachment of George W. Bush and prosecution
of U.S. officials responsible for war crimes and crimes against
humanity.
The campaign urges consumers to boycott of ExxonMobil products
and to purchase of CITGO products as an alternative.
ExxonMobil has been selected for boycott because of its apparent
active involvement in U.S. policy in the Middle East in general
and Iraq in particular, and its power to help change these policies.
The campaign urges the boycott of products and services of nine
consumer products firms connected with ExxonMobil through its
board of directors. They are: Campbell's Soup; Carlson Companies
(Radisson Hotels, TGI Friday's); Corning Inc. (Steuben Glass);
Metlife; Novartis; Pfizer; Verizon; Wells Fargo and Wyeth.
ConsumersforPeace.org describes connections between ExxonMobil
and U.S. Middle East and Iraq policies and seeks to mobilize consumer
pressure that will persuade the oil firm to start to lobby on
behalf of the boycott's goals. ExxonMobil says it spent $7.7 million
on lobbying in 2004.
ConsumersforPeace.org is an organizer of the March to Redeem the
Soul of America, to be held in Texas April 1 -16. The march will
begin with a press conference at 10 a.m., April 1, at ExxonMobil
headquarters in Texas and other a two-week period will go from
there to Dallas, then south to Waco and west to Crawford and the
Texas White House. It will conclude on Easter Weekend at the celebration
of the 3rd Anniversary of the Crawford Peace House, in Crawford.
These organizations and individuals endorse the ExxonMobil War
Boycott called by Consumers for Peace.
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