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Closed due to climate change "was written on a poster at the pump 200 to 300 activists blocked the entrances to the gas station A samba group drumming in sunshine under blue sky climber attached to the roof of a banner..." Total = Aral = Shell = BP, close holes! "A spontaneous action on 5 June, the weekend of climate protests in Bonn -. here and there and finally a visible response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is also in the virtual world stirs protest So there are the usual Facebook hostess food pages like. "Boycott BP" with over 700,000 fans. And on the portal Flickr images uploaded massively distorted BP logo.
Much more protests do not exist in Germany, given the biggest environmental disaster in US history, however. The case "Deepwater Horizon" seems to have little potential for protest for NGOs and environmental movements. "We have no concrete plans for action," says Tadzio Mueller about the network hostess food Climate Justice Action. "The plan is currently nothing," says Thorben Becker, an energy expert from the BUND nature conservation. "We are preoccupied with other issues, it's just nothing planned," says Attac spokeswoman Frauke Distelrath. And Greenpeace activist Christian Bussau says: "I do not know which meaningful protests there should be in this case." The only exception: Small Greenpeace actions in front of the headquarters of BP, Esso and Shell in Hamburg and Bochum. In general, the NGOs show in dealing with the oil spill in the sea floor as perplexed as the Obama administration and BP's corporate headquarters.
That even Christian Bussau lacking ideas how the public would be to pluck them out of the lethargy hostess food is meaningful. hostess food Finally, the Greenpeace spokesman has witnessed protests can bring a whole country in turmoil: The legendary cast of the floating oil tanks "Brent Spar" In 1995, he was with us. About 100 tonnes of oil sludge were then suspected in the belly of the 140 meter high colossus, the planned sinking in the sea by Shell wanted Greenpeace therefore avoid at all costs. For over a week Bussau spent on the platform, chained at the end unto her, until she was evicted on 23 May. 100 tons of oil sludge - which appears today almost ridiculous: In the Gulf of Mexico flows 80 times the amount of the BP disaster every day into the sea. Since April 20 - and when the leak can be closed, currently no one can answer.
That was the "Brent Spar": 1995 plans of oil company Shell, hostess food the "Brent Spar", a floating oil storage hostess food to sink in the North Sea. In protest, Greenpeace activists occupy the platform on April 30, after three and a half weeks succeeds shell to clear the "Brent Spar". In mid-June, the Group began to drag her towards the Atlantic in order to sink there. Public protests, boycotts hostess food and other occupations follow. It was only on June 20 are shell: The "Brent Spar" is dismantled.
That was the "Deepwater Horizon": On 20 April 2010 it comes during a bore in 1,500 meters of water depth on the drilling platform "Deepwater Horizon" in an explosion. 11 people hostess food die. Despite the attempts to extinguish the oil rig sinks two days later. Since oil flows from a leak in the seabed. First of 160,000 liters of oil per day speech, now the US government goes from about 10 million liters of daily. BP wants to close the leak until August with the help of relief wells.
Back when the "Brent Spar" should be sunk, this sufficed 100 tonnes hostess food to trigger the largest of a group boycott movement in Germany's history. Some authorities and associations not tanked their company car at Shell, hostess food the supermarket chain Tengelmann recommended its nearly 200,000 employees the same. The Junge Union, church organizations, union bosses, Guido Westerwelle, Theo Waigel, Klaus Kinkel, Helmut Kohl: All criticized the project of the Shell Group or demanded equal its boycott. Two thirds of Germans were ready also, according to a Emnid survey. At some stations the sales dropped on a by up to 50 percent. hostess food Some went against militant: A Shell petrol stations Tenant was sent a letter bomb, others received bomb threats, in Hamburg arson attack on a Shell station. "Shell to hell" was sprayed at the crime scene.
Christian Bussau had when he a little more than 15 years in a fishing boat for "Brent Spar" Translated, this resonance hostess food at home can not imagine. "I was actually surprised how big the