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

Activists stop oil drilling for second time in one week

Just before being arrested today, oil campaigner Ben Ayliffe radioed the nearby Greenpeace ship Esperanza from the oil rig he and 17 other activists had...
Posted by nick_gp - 4 June, 2011 - 19:57
18 of our activists scale Cairn's Arctic rig to get the oil spill response plan

LIVE: We've boarded Cairn's Arctic oil rig demanding their spill plan

Update: After eight hours, all 18 activists have been arrested. More >> It never really gets dark here in the Arctic but in the soft silver light of the early...
Posted by nick_gp - 4 June, 2011 - 10:08
The navy seized the pod and our brave activists. Now Cairn is wielding a legal h

Cairn wields a legal hammer to stop us protecting the Arctic

Last night, Hannah and Luke, our two brave climbers, were removed from the Arctic survival pod that had been suspended from the underside of the 53,000 tonne...
Posted by ben - 2 June, 2011 - 18:25
Looking down from the pod at the Arctic waters below

Update from the Arctic pod: 48 hours and going strong!

We've now been suspended beneath the Cairn oil rig in our Arctic survival pod for over 48 hours.After leaving the Esperanza at 3am to scale the rig and then a...
Posted by hannah_gp - 31 May, 2011 - 13:27

LIVE: We're stopping Arctic oil drilling!

UPDATE: The Danish Navy has arrested our activists and seized the Pod after nearly 100 hours stopping Arctic drilling This morning we started taking direct...
Posted by jamess - 29 May, 2011 - 09:49

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