Action: Confronting the fossil fuel economy

London Rising Tide will be bringing its opposition to BP's planned Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline to one of its potential funders, the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), every Thursday from now until October, when consultation on the public funding ends. We'll be there every thursday afternoon from 4.30-6pm. Feel free to join us; bring noise, colour and (fossil fuel-free) energy. Email london@risingtide.org.uk for more details.

Activists from Oxford and London Rising Tide went to the Conference of Parties (COP9) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Milan, Italy to protest against the privatisation of the atmosphere and the false solutions that are exacerbating human rights and environmental problems.

Activists this morning disrupted a London conference dedicated in part to 'overcoming ecological and environmental concerns' about the pipelines that are beginning to criss-cross the Caucasus with Big Oil and US military backing.

WHAT IT IS AND WHAT YOU CAN DO

Graffiti that appeared on AMEC offices in Leeds | Bigger pic

WHAT IS THE PIPELINE?
British Petroleum (BP) is leading the consortium of companies intending to build two pipelines to bring oil and gas from the Caspian oil fields to Europe. BP is also the operator and a similarly sized shareholder in the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oil field and Shah Deniz gas field, which would supply the pipelines.

Without public finance this project cannot go ahead. It is vital to put pressure on key decision makers for financing the BCP, and companies who are involved in the project. Here are some ideas for getting involved:

Outreach and publicity
Organise a speaker meeting- come to speaker training or contact us for support in organizing a meeting about the pipeline. We have information, materials and a range of speakers about different aspects of the pipeline project. If you'd like to be a key motivator in your area, then come along to the speaker training in January

Students - Organize speaker meetings, write letters, ask questions.. and more.. at BP recruitment events, and oppose BP sponsorship in your universities.

Police surround BP's AGM to silence alternative opinions

BP AGM background information...

15.10.04

As part of the many grassroots events sprouting up all around the European Social Forum in London, London Rising Tide today (dis)organised a very public exposure of some of the forces that are sending our planet tumbling into climate chaos.

London Rising Tide's critical mass theme was London in 2050 when sea levels may be a tad higher than at present.

Aimed at highlighting how big business and government are ignoring the massive threat of climate chaos and rising sea levels caused by the continued burning of fossil fuels in their frenzied "business as usual". Many costumes of a distinctly nautical flavour. The samba band was also out in force. Completely over the top police presence, Forward stupidity Team photographers