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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Greenpeace MPs briefing: Evidence Session with Arctic Oil Industry, 14th March 2012
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exploratory wells that the company is drilling in the Beaufort and Chukchi
Seas,...
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why drilling for oil in the Arctic is such a monumentally bad idea, Shell’s
drilling rig, the Kulluk, has run
aground off the...
You did it! Waitrose puts Shell relationship on ice
Today we received the great news that after only 12 days
of our intensive campaign, Waitrose has announced it has put its partnership with Arctic oil...