Hi John,

I’ve got huge news. Shell has backed down in their lawsuit against Greenpeace. [1]

Shell sued us for millions of dollars because we peacefully protested on one of their climate-wrecking oil platforms in 2023. [2] They thought this intimidation lawsuit would grind us down, but because of our year-long campaign, they have agreed to settle out of court instead.

This settlement shows that people power works. Hundreds of thousands of ordinary people across the country backed our fight against Shell by signing our huge open letter, emailing and calling the CEO, or chipping in whatever they could to our fighting fund.

This was a David vs Goliath battle but we turned the tables on Shell by forcing them to settle!

We now need the world to know that Shell’s intimidation does not work. So please can you help us get the word out online by sharing the news with your friends and family on social media?

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We’ve made sure not a penny of our supporters’ money will go to Shell. Instead, we’ve agreed to donate £300,000 to our brave friends at the RNLI whose work protecting those at sea is more important than ever as climate change supercharges storms around the world. We also agreed not to protest at four sites in the North Sea for a period of time where we had no plans to intervene anyway.

Even if we had won the case, we could still have ended up worse off than by settling it at this early stage - that’s the absurd nature of intimidation lawsuits. But now the case is over, we can use our resources to actually campaign against Shell and the rest of the fossil fuel industry.

We’re going to take the fight to Shell in 2025 by demanding that the government makes them stop drilling for new oil and gas and start paying for the climate damage they are causing at home and abroad.

So far over 76,000 people have signed our petition to Keir Starmer urging him to rein in big polluters like Shell, but your name is missing. Every signature helps us ramp up the pressure on the government to act, so please can you add yours now?

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This legal battle might be over, but our people-powered fight against Big Oil has only just begun.

The climate crisis is wreaking havoc across the world and it’s ordinary people who are having to pay to fix the damage, while fossil fuel giants like Shell who are driving this climate chaos get off scot-free. This cannot go on. We need the government to act.

In the weeks and months ahead we’ll be ramping up the pressure on the government to hold big polluters like Shell to account. We need you with us every step of the way to get our message across - so thank you for taking action today to demand Keir Starmer force Big Oil giants to stop drilling and start paying for their climate damage: [link removed]

In solidarity,

Aiyan Maharasingam
Greenpeace UK

NOTES:

[1] Breaking: Shell backs down in its lawsuit against Greenpeace: [link removed]
[2] Thank you for helping Greenpeace fight Shell: [link removed]



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