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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Video: Paula bears down on reckless oil drillers Cairn Energy

We took Paula Bear down to Cairn Energy's HQ yesterday to block their entrance and demand their oil spill response plan.We learned this week from confidential...
Posted by jamie - 27 May, 2011 - 17:26
Cairn's rig - the most controversial in the world - about to start Arctic drilli

Arctic drilling: A sinister presence

I'm writing this from the lounge of the Esperanza, and as I look to my right out of a porthole I can see the coast of Greenland. It's 15 miles away but the...
Posted by bens - 26 May, 2011 - 17:51
Paula blocking the entrance to Cairn's HQ

Paula Bear: Where's your spill response plan, Cairn?

This morning Paula Bear swung into action as a Greenpeace activist. While our ships are confronting Cairn Energy's oil rig in the Arctic, she’s blocking the...
Posted by jamess - 26 May, 2011 - 10:35
The Arctic is under threat from oil drillers

Arctic: our modern-day Thule needs protecting

Medieval geographers referred to very distant places as Ultima Thule, beyond the "borders of the known world", but even before that, as far back the classical...
Posted by ben - 25 May, 2011 - 13:22
Greenpeace intercepts Cairn Energy's Arctic oil rig

Arctic Stand-off : Two Greenpeace ships confront world’s most controversial oil rig

Despite it being the size of a small cathedral, locating Cairn Energy’s oil rig Leiv Eiriksson amongst the icebergs in the North Atlantic is like finding a...
Posted by NickYoungGP - 24 May, 2011 - 12:28

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