Go beyond oil

If we want to have healthy lives and a healthy planet we have to wean ourselves off oil. We are working to expose the lengths the oil industry is willing to go to squeeze the last barrels out of the ground and putting pressure on industry and governments to move beyond oil.

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A Father's day letter for Kumi in jail

Kumi Naidoo - the international head of Greenpeace - is currently in a Greenlandic jail following his stand against Cairn Energy's reckless oil drilling here...
Posted by nick_gp - 20 June, 2011 - 13:50

Video: Kumi Naidoo scales Cairn's Arctic drilling rig

In a small boat launched from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza Kumi Naidoo, the Executive Director of Greenpeace International crossed into an exclusion zone...
Posted by tracy.frauzel - 18 June, 2011 - 09:16

BREAKING: Kumi Naidoo boards Arctic oil rig demanding an end to Arctic drilling

Our International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo is right now braving freezing seas to scale an Arctic oil rig. He's taking direct action to demand an end to...
Posted by tracy.frauzel - 17 June, 2011 - 10:28
Cairn's rig - the most controversial in the world - about to start Arctic drilli

Save the Arctic? No thanks, says UK Energy Minister

While our campaign to save the Arctic from risky oil drilling has been playing out in Greenlandic waters and Dutch courtrooms over the past few weeks, the UK...
Posted by bex - 15 June, 2011 - 12:37
The 18 activists in jail for boarding Cairn's rig to demand the spill response p

Meet the Arctic 18

Our delegation of 18 from the Esperanza and Arctic Sunrise were arrested on board the Cairn oil rig Leiv Eiriksson on Saturday. Four days later they are still...
Posted by nick_gp - 9 June, 2011 - 12:05

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