![]() ![]() Now other oil companies such as BP and Total Energies promise to be divesting from Russia, after being directly linked to the Ukraine war. Shell even bought oil from Russia after the invasion, and only apologised and pledged to cut ties with Russia after huge public backlash that could affect their bottom line. © Axel Heimken / Greenpeace Fossil fuel companies cannot be trustedĮarly in the war in Ukraine, oil companies jumped on the opportunity to expand their operations, using a looming energy crisis as a reason to pedal their polluting business. The action in the port of Bremen is part of a protest against oil imports from Russia, which help finance Putin’s war in Ukraine. Greenpeace activists hold a banner that reads “STOP FUNDING WAR” and paint “Peace – Not Oil” in two-meter letters on the side of the 40,000-ton tanker Seasprat, which delivers processed oil from the Russian Baltic port of Primorsk. The governments of Italy, Spain and Germany have invested more than €4 billion to protect climate-damaging fossil fuels since 2018. And the large-scale exploitation of oil by foreign companies operating in southern Sudan has increased human rights abuses there and has exacerbated the long-running conflict in Sudan, resulting in two million people dying and four million displaced since 1983, as well as recurring famine and epidemics.Īccording to research in 2021 by Greenpeace Italy, Greenpeace Spain and Greenpeace Germany, almost two-thirds of all EU military missions monitor and secure the production and transport of oil and gas to Europe. Though oil was not the sole reason for Iraq’s actions, it was a powerful motivator for swift action from the United States and its allies who moved quickly to protect its own and OECD countries’ access to important oil supplies. The issues which provided Iraq with the pretext for its invasion of Kuwait were oil pricing policies and oil revenues. The 1990 Gulf war was largely a conflict about oil. Greenpeace has spoken out about such conflicts in the past, especially during the last Iraq war. The struggle over energy resources has been a conspicuous factor in many recent conflicts, including the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988, the Gulf War of 1990-1991, and the Sudanese Civil War of 1983-2005. © Greenpeace / Christian Åslund Fossil fuels have a history with war The activists have mounted a 30 meter long banner with the message “People Want Peace – Stop Fuelling war” directed at the Swedish political decision makers. Greenpeace Nordic activists in peaceful protest on top of a construction crane overlooking the Swedish parliament. To stop this war we need a global divestment from, and an embargo on, Russian fossil fuels as soon as possible, as well as urgent delivery of humanitarian aid to those in need. Rosneft and subsidiary company Rosneft-Aero and Transneft reportedly delivered fuel to the Russian Army before and during the invasion. So every time Russian oil or gas are bought it’s not just contributing funds to the war chest, it may be keeping military machinery running. ![]() Rosneft also supplies petroleum to companies like BP. Rosneft, one of Russia’s main petroleum companies, is reported to be one of the main suppliers of fuel to the Russian army. There’s a direct relationship between fossil fuels and the Russian war machine. Fossil fuels are fuelling the war in Ukraine “Human-induced climate change and the war on Ukraine have the same roots: fossil fuels and our dependence on them” said Ukrainian climate scientist Svitlana Krakovska as Russia, one of the world’s biggest oil and gas producers, was invading her country.Īt the time, she was addressing The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change from her home in Kyiv, and had to withdraw from the approval session of the latest report as bombs hit her city.Ī month later the war in Ukraine is now a humanitarian crisis: more than 3.7 million people who have fled the country, and roughly 13 million people are estimated to be unable to leave with limited access to food, water, and medical care.
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