Save the Arctic

The fragile Arctic is under threat from both climate change and oil drilling. As climate change melts the Arctic ice, oil companies are moving in to extract more of the fossil fuels that caused the melt in the first place. But above the Arctic circle, freezing temperatures, a narrow drilling window and a remote location mean that an oil spill would be almost impossible to deal with. It's a catastrophe waiting to happen. Greenpeace is working to halt climate change and to stop this new oil rush at the top of the world.

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Cairn's tugs drag icebergs out the way of its Arctic oil drilling rig

10 reasons why investing in Arctic drilling is reckless – according to the world’s top risk assessors

Last week, Lloyd’s of London - the world’s leading insurer which sets the global standard for risk assessment - released a report warning investors not to rush...
Posted by sara_a - 19 April, 2012 - 17:58
"Polar bears" welcome delegates to the Russian Arctic Oil and Gas Conference, Mo

Arctic oil investment: dangerous, reckless and wrong

Whilst international investors and oil industry representatives have been meeting today in Moscow to hatch plans to drill for oil in the Russian Arctic,...
Posted by Igor Podgorny - 17 April, 2012 - 16:19
Cairn's Leiv Eriksson rig off the coast of Greenland

The financial risks of Arctic drilling

For the past couple of years, Greenpeace has been ringing the bell, taking action and highlighting the risks and dangers of drilling for oil in the Arctic, the...
Posted by Charlie Kronick - 12 April, 2012 - 14:25
Arctic Fox

Lessons from the Elgin gas leak: why we must stop Shell's Arctic drilling

Ten days after the leak began, Total is still struggling to contain the gas pouring from its North Sea Elgin platform, citing bad weather as the cause of the...
Posted by bex - 4 April, 2012 - 13:51

Shell gets legal ban on Arctic protest

They're still ignoring rising temperatures in the Arctic, but Shell is clearly starting to feel the heat in the US. After more than three hundred thousand of...
Posted by graham - 30 March, 2012 - 17:18

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