The end of 2019 marked an intense period of activity for Greenpeace targeting the offshore exploration activities of Austrian oil company OMV. Along with our allies, we occupied oil supply ships, we blockaded OMV’s regional headquarters in Taranaki for three days, we climbed 20 stories up their Wellington building and we saw them off.
Our theory of change was that we would create so much local and global resistance to new oil exploration that oil companies would fall over one after another as they weighed up the costs of exploration against the likelihood of getting their cash back in the face of this resistance. And so it proved to be in 2020 – the dominoes fell one by one and the major oil exploration companies left Aotearoa for good (the last ones leaving in 2021)…
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