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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BREAKING: Kumi Naidoo boards Arctic oil rig demanding an end to Arctic drilling

Our International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo is right now braving freezing seas to scale an Arctic oil rig. He's taking direct action to demand an end to...
Posted by tracy.frauzel - 17 June, 2011 - 10:28
Cairn's rig - the most controversial in the world - about to start Arctic drilli

Save the Arctic? No thanks, says UK Energy Minister

While our campaign to save the Arctic from risky oil drilling has been playing out in Greenlandic waters and Dutch courtrooms over the past few weeks, the UK...
Posted by bex - 15 June, 2011 - 12:37
The 18 activists in jail for boarding Cairn's rig to demand the spill response p

Meet the Arctic 18

Our delegation of 18 from the Esperanza and Arctic Sunrise were arrested on board the Cairn oil rig Leiv Eiriksson on Saturday. Four days later they are still...
Posted by nick_gp - 9 June, 2011 - 12:05
Confronting Cairn's oil drilling in the Arctic

Arctic oil company's lawsuit against us backfires

Today an Amsterdam court judge turned the tables on Cairn Energy. Rather than granting an injunction against Greenpeace, he instead suggested that the oil...
Posted by nick_gp - 7 June, 2011 - 10:03
Our activists arrested after boarding Cairn's arctic rig

Today we confront Cairn in court

Today our mission to protect the Arctic moves from the frozen seas of Greenland into the courts of Amsterdam and Greenland. After our first occupation of its...
Posted by nick_gp - 6 June, 2011 - 13:08

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