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

Video: Esperanza to climb team, over

This was the scene on the Esperanza's bridge as Luke called through to Sim on the Stena Don for the last time, as the climbers prepared to leave the oil...
Posted by jamie - 2 September, 2010 - 15:46

"Well, that was dramatic" - watching our activists from the ship

Ben writes about this morning's events from the Esperanza... Well, that was dramatic. Yesterday afternoon, the seas started churning and our huge banner on...
Posted by jamess - 2 September, 2010 - 11:10

Our oil rig occupation has ended

Picture of Sim yesterday morning on the rig It’s five in the morning Greenland time and the last few hours have been quite insane. Last night, with the...
Posted by lisavickers - 2 September, 2010 - 07:44

Video: update direct from the oil rig

Watch Sim talk about his "relatively comfortable" night dangling off the underside of Cairn's Stena Don rig. Our four climbers are still on Cairn's rig,...
Posted by jamess - 1 September, 2010 - 17:46

Hanging in there - we're still on the Arctic oil rig

Our four climbers have spent the night in sub-zero temperatures, hanging off the bottom of Cairn's Arctic oil rig - the Stena Don. While we're attached to...
Posted by jamess - 1 September, 2010 - 10:04

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