Sentences with phrase «campaign against the oil company»

The winning logo will be used by us in innovative and exciting ways as part of our international campaign against the oil company.

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The Orangutan snack was a spoof on KitKat for a campaign last year against Nestle and HSBC over the two company's dealings with Indonesian palm oil producer Sinar Mas, whom Greenpeace accused of illegal deforestation.

He is most recently the founder of the advocacy group 350.org which has led campaigns against the Keystone XL oil pipeline and on behalf of campus divestment from fossil fuel companies.

In 2004 it was revealed that the Australian government was willing to offer a subsidy to Southern Pacific Petroleum on the condition that the oil company would take legal action against Greenpeace, which had campaigned against the Stuart Oil Shale Projeoil company would take legal action against Greenpeace, which had campaigned against the Stuart Oil Shale ProjeOil Shale Project.

Rivera didn't have a big campaign budget, but she turned out hundreds of volunteers to fight against the oil companies» efforts to prevent the law's implementation.

Warren Buffett funneled millions through his family foundation to the secretive Tides Foundation to pressure groups campaigning against the Keystone and Sandpiper Pipelines, thereby benefiting his railroad and tank car companies that haul oil.

The world's biggest publicly quoted oil company faces a long - running boycott campaign against its Esso petrol brand by environmental activists in Europe.

By both outsourcing the misinformation campaign and allowing their scientists to publish research in peer - reviewed journals — where it was available to but largely unseen by the public — the oil companies tried to buffer themselves against the legal liability that took down the tobacco industry.

Now, every self - respecting oil company channels money into front groups, lobbying campaigns, and PR efforts, not just during a spill, but all the time to keep public opinion in check, and to hedge against such disasters.

There's been a lot of talk lately around about Proposition 23 in California — oil companies are dumping money into campaigns to support it, clean energy advocates are adamantly against it, and it's become a

Community Rights Counsel Press Release — For more than a decade, Exxon Corporation (now ExxonMobil) has waged a comprehensive campaign against punitive damages awards, triggered by the decision of a jury in Alaska to impose a $ 5 billion penalty on the company for the misdeeds that led to the Valdez oil spill, the worst in the nation's history.