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.

Campaign updates

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 -
Frida Bengtsson

With rights come responsibilities

I’m in sunny Stockholm this week, spring is here for sure and woolly hats and gloves are yet again stored away for next winter.  In a grand Natural...
Posted by Frida Bengtsson - 30 March, 2012 - 10:39

Approved: Shell's spill response plan for the Beaufort Sea

Today, the US Government approved Shell's oil spill response plan for the Beaufort Sea, a remote expanse of ocean that must count as one of the most wild and...
Posted by dhowells - 29 March, 2012 - 08:54 -

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