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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Blog from the fog

Last night around 1pm, my whole cabin was suddenly flooded with light and it was not the Aurora Borealis this time. It was the coastguard of Greenland,...
Posted by lisavickers - 27 August, 2010 - 23:28 -

Drilling for oil and hosing down icebergs

As images and video come in to the office from the Esperanza, the one thing that has amazed everyone is the lengths to which Cairn Energy will go (indeed,...
Posted by jamie - 26 August, 2010 - 16:41 -

BP are out, but the race is still on.

So it's official: BP are out of the arctic oil race. Word is that our confrontation with Cairn Energy is scaring off the oil giant. In the words of a senior...
Posted by jamess - 26 August, 2010 - 10:23

A video of life on the Esperanza

We finally managed to upload the video of the crew that our videographer Stephen Nugent made. The internet connection via satellite is pretty terrible up...
Posted by lisavickers - 26 August, 2010 - 09:25 -

How many Arctic cowboys does it take to lasso an iceberg?

Will Rose, independent photographer who regularly works with Greenpeace. He writes from the Esperanza... We’re in and out of internet range now so I’m not...
Posted by jamess - 25 August, 2010 - 12:24 -

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