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

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 -

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 -

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