Forum for opposing offshore oil exploration
Direct action and other legal means of protecting Earth from oil schemes
Committee Against Oil Exploration (CAOE) offers this forum for discussing ways of stopping offshore oil drilling and related pollution schemes by the energy industries and government agencies.
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Begin using less oil, by giving up your car, for example, and let people know why you are doing it.
Demonstrate peacefully outside oil facilities or corporate offices, demanding a change in business to cleaner renewable energy.
Sail into offshore waters and see what the drilling platforms are doing, and check for oil-slicks to report back on shore.
Write letters to government agencies and politicians to urge them to prevent the spread of drilling.
Read Overshoot (William Catton), Beyond Oil (Gever et al), The Curve of the Future (Passerini), and...
Ask a well-to-do consumer to donate to an environmental group trying to save the world from more petroleum pollution.
Go to your child's schoolroom or a Sunday School to discuss oil dependence, global warming, protecting the oceans and the caribou, etc.
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