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Russia s Arctic Drilling: Greenpeace Activists Intercept Oil Workers Ship

Greenpeace demand the High Arctic be legally protected from companies and governments Greenpeace maintains that what happens in the Arctic affects us all. Besides acting as a planetary air-conditioner, the region is a bellwether for the health of our climate and the global ecosystem.As the ice melts and is replaced by large patches of dark, open water, even more of the sun's heat is absorbed and the melting increases. The frozen North is stuck in a vicious circle, with scientists talking about the sea ice entering a "death spiral."The Arctic is warming faster than any other place on Earth. Ice is disappearing at unprecedented levels and with it the habitat of species like the polar bear, while the way of life of the four million people who live above the Arctic Circle is changing forever.But rather than seeing this as a clear warning and spur to positive action, many governments and companies have taken a different, altogether more sinister, view: the retreating ice sheet is an opportunity to grab one of Earth's last unclaimed areas and to profit from finding the resources that are currently locked away deep beneath the ice.According to Greenpeace, as a consequence, we are now witnessing ...

Greenpeace vs. Shell A federal judge has made it more difficult for representatives of Greenpeace USA to board Shell Oil's drilling vessels.In March, Judge Sharon Gleason in Anchorage ordered the group to stay a kilometer away from Shell Oil's drilling ships destined for Arctic waters off Alaska's northern coast. The restrictions applied to U.S. territorial waters up to 12 miles from shore.On Tuesday, Gleason extended the restrictions to 200 miles offshore. Shell intends to drill 18 miles off the Beaufort Sea coast this summer, and 70 miles off the Chukchi coast.Shell sought the preliminary injunction after Greenpeace New Zealand activists, including actress Lucy Lawless, in February boarded the Shell drill ship Noble Discoverer before it left for the U.S. West Coast for cold-weather modifications.Source: Huffington Post

Temporarily blocked a freighter from being loaded at a northern Brazilian port Greenpeace temporarily blocked a freighter from being loaded at a northern Brazilian port Saturday in protest over a partial presidential veto of a land-use bill seen as harming the Amazon.The environmental group said on its website that activists ferried by its Rainbow Warrior vessel occupied a giant pile of pig iron on the dock while another team scaled two cranes to stop them from loading the raw material of iron and steel onto the US-bound Clipper Hope.The activists then unfurled banners proclaiming "Amazon Crime" and "Dilma's dirty secret," in protest at President Dilma Rousseff's partial veto Friday of 12 controversial articles of the new code regulating the use of land on rural properties."The Amazon turns to Charcoal, Brazil Stop the Chainsaw," said a huge banner tied to a crane by the activists.Pig iron requires large amounts of charcoal to be produced and this often comes from rainforest trees logged from indigenous lands.But they suspended the protest eight hours later after the deputy governor of Maranhao state, Washington Luiz de Oliveira, intervened and promised to facilitate talks with the pig iron industry.A meeting was set for Monday between Greenpeace ...

Shell is the first major international oil company to make drilling in the region Greenpeace Nordic activists intercepted at open sea and boarded a Shell-contracted icebreaker, the Nordica, to continue its protest against the oil major's destructive plans to start drilling in the pristine Arctic region. At about 04:20 six activists from five different countries boarded the Nordica in Swedish waters south of Öland, scaled the ship and have locked themselves down throughout the ship. They are demanding that Shell abandons its controversial plans to drill in the fragile Arctic."Shell's reckless plans to start drilling for oil in the Arctic pose an unacceptable threat to a unique place on earth," said Greenpeace Nordic Arctic campaigner eco-toxicologist Therese Jacobson. "We are standing at a crossroads. A choice needs to be made to protect the Arctic or allow Shell and other oil greedy companies to destroy this precious region. The choice is clear, we must save the Arctic."Today's interception follows a similar action earlier this week when 20 Greenpeace Nordic activists boarded the Nordica in Helsinki, Finland, as it prepared to leave to join Shell's fleet of vessels in Alaska this summer. As the first team of activists was being arrested, 22 ...

Activists stop a ship from loading pig iron.