Swimming against drilling: day 3

Posted by jossc — 28 September 2010 at 1:15pm - Comments

Here's the latest video from Esperanza off the west of Shetland, as our swimmers continue their vigil to halt Chevron's giant drill ship, the Stena Carron. This phase of the action is now in its third day. We've been stopping the deepwater oil drillers for a week now.

Why are we here? Because oil companies are going to extreme lengths to extract oil from hard to get places as the easy to reach supplies run out - increasing the chances of environmental disasters like the Gulf of Mexico right here on our shores, and jeopardising our chances of stopping climate change.

We need to start thinking about a world beyond oil, and how we start to move towards a clean energy efficient future.

 

About Joss

Bass player and backing vox in the four piece beat combo that is the UK Greenpeace Web Experience. In my 6 years here I've worked on almost every campaign and been fascinated by them all to varying degrees. Just now I'm working on Peace and Oceans - which means getting rid of our Trident nuclear weapons system and creating large marine reserves so that marine life can get some protection from overfishing.

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