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Shell vs Greenpeace - No Contest

Posted by naturegirl - 19 September 2012 at 11:14pm - Comments
Greenpeace activists in inflatables are sprayed with hoses by Gazprom workers
All rights reserved. Credit: Denis Sinyakov / Greenpeace
Gazprom workers spray activists with water hoses

Some recent press quotes & links to articles below:

"Greenpeace is spot on in its aims – and timing... This is an historic moment and the environmental movement in the shape of Greenpeace, has grasped it.’  — The Independent

"An environmental lobby determined to protect the Arctic from invasive exploration also poses a major complication for Shell and its rivals BP and Gazprom, with safety concerns already to the fore following BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. Shell's decision to postpone drilling off the coast of Alaska in the Chukchi Sea was met with unalloyed triumph by Greenpeace, whose activists have been trailing the company's drill ship Noble Discoverer since it left New Zealand six months ago. Campaigners – with support from the likes of the actress Penelope Cruz and Sir Paul McCartney – say Shell's "Arctic misadventure is an expensive and risky mistake". The group managed to shut down more than 70 Shell petrol stations in London and Edinburgh in July, at a cost of 24 arrests."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/sep/19/arctic-ice-shrinks?CMP=twt_fd

 

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