The Texas-based corporation is demanding €80,000 per day for
damage to its reputation and a further €80,000 per day should
Greenpeace fail to comply. It also wants to stop the campaign using
the expression “StopE$$o”.
The StopEsso campaign in the UK is a coalition of pressure
groups Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and People & Planet. It
alleges that Esso “has run a ten year campaign of dirty tricks
against international action to combat climate change.”
Stephan Tindale, Greenpeace UK Director, said:
“We simply replaced two letters in Esso’s
logo with the internationally recognised symbol for the US dollar.
We find it ironic that the richest corporation in the world can’t
recognise the dollar sign and confuses it with a Nazi symbol.”
A court hearing for the case has been set for 1st July in Paris.
The French StopEsso campaign was launched in May. Campaigns are
also running in the US, Canada and Germany.
