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.

Campaign updates

18 of our activists scale Cairn's Arctic rig to get the oil spill response plan

LIVE: We've boarded Cairn's Arctic oil rig demanding their spill plan

Update: After eight hours, all 18 activists have been arrested. More >> It never really gets dark here in the Arctic but in the soft silver light of the early...
Posted by nick_gp - 4 June, 2011 - 10:08 -
The navy seized the pod and our brave activists. Now Cairn is wielding a legal h

Cairn wields a legal hammer to stop us protecting the Arctic

Last night, Hannah and Luke, our two brave climbers, were removed from the Arctic survival pod that had been suspended from the underside of the 53,000 tonne...
Posted by ben - 2 June, 2011 - 18:25 -
Danish navy arrest Greenpeace activists and capture the Arctic pod

Activists and pod captured by Danish navy, but this isn't over

Climbers working with the Danish navy have just broken into our pod suspended from the Cairn Energy oil rig here in the Arctic seas off Greenland and...
Posted by bens - 2 June, 2011 - 09:30 -
Looking down from the pod at the Arctic waters below

Update from the Arctic pod: 48 hours and going strong!

We've now been suspended beneath the Cairn oil rig in our Arctic survival pod for over 48 hours.After leaving the Esperanza at 3am to scale the rig and then a...
Posted by hannah_gp - 31 May, 2011 - 13:27 -

LIVE: We're stopping Arctic oil drilling!

UPDATE: The Danish Navy has arrested our activists and seized the Pod after nearly 100 hours stopping Arctic drilling This morning we started taking direct...
Posted by jamess - 29 May, 2011 - 09:49 -

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