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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Campaign updates
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...
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,...
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...
How we slipped past Danish commandos
Picture of Sim from the US, setting up an occupation platform. Leila, on board the Esperanza, writes:
Blimey, this is exciting! Up at 4am, the crew...
Our action to go beyond oil
From this morning's ongoing action against Cairn's reckless drilling
Just a moment ago we launched our inflatables at the crack of dawn in the misty Arctic...
