I am called in a Shell suit versus Greenpeace for attempting to board their oil rig, however I won’t stop battling their environment vandalism
Ten years ago this month, big locations of my nation were ravaged by Typhoon Haiyan – the most effective storm the Philippines had ever understood.
Winds of practically 200 milesperhour tore through neighborhoods declaring more than 6,000 innocent lives. My household’s hometown of Tacloban – just 5 metres above sea level – dealtwith a wall of seawater over 7 metres high.
As the storm left a enormous path of destruction, I was providing a speech at the Cop19 UN environment talks in Poland.
I might not reach my sibling and it was another 3 days before I discovered out he was alive. But he personally brought 78 individuals to mass tombs. To this day, lotsof of the headstones in the regional cemetery bear the names of 10 individuals or more, with one date of death.
Over the last coupleof weeks, I have signedupwith a band of environment and human rights activists on a 1,000km walk throughout the Phillipines to celebrate this disaster and need environment justice.
Along the method I heard many stories of loss from individuals who think that Haiyan must haveactually been a wake-up call for the world about the threats of environment modification.
Damaged locations along the coast in Tacloban City after Typhoon Haiyan hit the location. (Photo credit: Matimtiman//Greenpeace)
I continue my journey by ship. The advocates, scientists, reporters and professionalphotographers on board the Rainbow Warrior have satisfied homeowners of Bohol province’s ‘sinking islands’. Beautiful locations that are gradually however definitely losing ground to the waves as sea levels increase and tropicalcyclones are super-charged by a heating environment.
Yet even while I bear witness to their stories, there are some who desire to silence me.
Shell suit
Earlier this month we foundout that Shell is takinglegalactionagainst Greenpeace UK and Greenpeace International, threatening a damages claim for millions of dollars for objecting versus its continued expedition and production of planet-heating fossil fuels.
As executive director of Greenpeace Southeast Asia and as one of the activists who attempted to board a drilling platform Shell was moving to the North Sea earlier this year, I am called in the court files.
The business is not just economically assaulting Greenpeace, however is lookingfor an injunction to avoid Greenpeace protesting on its facilities at sea or in port anywhere in the world permanently.
Far from observing the wake-up call, or even striking the snooze button, they are attempting to smash the alarm clock.
That is why I will be signingupwith Greenpeace activists today in sendingout a clear message to the fossil fuel market that its intimidation strategies will not silence us.
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Using kayaks and little boats, we will attempt to block an oil tanker from docking at a significant Shell refinery near Batangas, a city on the edge of the Verde Island Passage.
This picturesque 10-mile large channel separating the islands of Luzon and Mindoro is one of the most biodiverse marine environments on Earth, home to numerous unusual and terrific types.
But it now dealswith an existential risk. It hasactually endedupbeing the epicentre of my nation’s broadening melted natural gas market, with international giants putting millions into building n