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STOP ESSO!

© Linda Little

The Boycot

Boycotting a company and its products is usually an extreme measure reserved for the most hardline and unrepentant companies. Most environmentalists do not like encouraging a boycott. Usually their first course of action is to try and persuade companies to moderate their practices in oder to fall in line with best social and environmental practices. Only when all else has failed, is a boycott usually attempted.

People have tried to speak to ExxonMobil about their concerns and have reluctantly come to the conclusion that the only way to make this company listen is to boycott their products. As Elizabeth Birch says "We have determined that after making every overture to ExxonMobil management and after three shareholder resolutions aimed at convincing the company to change its non-discrimination policy, we have no other choice."

There are many reasons to boycott ExxonMobil. They cover a whole range of activities including the company's hardline stance on global warming and renewable energy, its continued drilling in the Artic Wildlife National Refuge, its human rights violations both in first world and third world countries and its sponsorship of the Bush presidential campaign as a means to achieve a hardline American response to the Kyoto protocol.

Further Information

For further information about some of ExxonMobile's activities, check out the links below:

1. Global Warming:
   • ExxonMobiles attempts to undermine climate science
     A Greenpeace Report

   • The Response of ExxonMobile on Global Warming
     A Campaign ExxonMobile Report

2. Human Rights Issues:
   • Human Rights Issues in Aceh, Indonesia
     A OneWorld Report

   • The Chad/Cameroon Pipeline
     An Earthday Network Report

   • Equality at ExxonMobil
     A statement by Elizabeth Birch

3. Environmental Damage:
   • Exxonmobil's Drilling Activities in the Artic
     An ENS Report

What You Can Do

A couple of campaigns have been launched to make ExxonMobile listen to reason and behave in a way that is more in tune with the rest of the world. If you would like to join either of these campaign, then follow the links listed below:

• STOPESSO!
  You can visit this site and sign up for the boycott. You can also be put on the campaign mailing list here and get updates on how this campaign is going.
• Campaign ExxonMobil
  Visit this site for a great deal of information about what this company is getting up to and hints on what you can do about it.

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