The Arctic: what's at stake

Posted by jamess — 22 April 2011 at 9:19am - Comments
We must protect the Arctic from dangerous deep water oil drilling
All rights reserved. Credit: Greenpeace / Nick Cobbing
We must protect the Arctic from dangerous deep water oil drilling

As our action against Cairn's Arctic-bound oil rig gets underway, there's no better time to remind us all of what's at stake - watch and share these powerful pictures.

An oil spill in the Arctic would be catastrophic - seasonal sea ice would make any clean-up operation extremely difficult, if not impossible. And that's even before we burn the oil. If we continue to feed our oil addiction the Arctic ice will melt even faster than it already is.

We need to protect the Arctic.

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