Blogposts tagged 'Alaska'

Shell gets legal ban on Arctic protest

Posted by graham - 30 March 2012 at 5:18pm - 3 Comments
All rights reserved. Credit: Greenpeace

They're still ignoring rising temperatures in the Arctic, but Shell is clearly starting to feel the heat in the US. After more than three hundred thousand of you emailed them asking them not to gamble with the Arctic, the oil giant has resorted to draconian legal action to try to silence opposition to their plans to drill in the frozen north.

Article tagged as: #savethearctic, alaska, arctic, climate change, drilling, injunctions, legal, oil, shell, USA

23 years later and Shell has learned nothing from the Exxon Valdez disaster

Posted by dhowells - 23 March 2012 at 12:25pm - 1 Comment
Clean up after Exxon Valdez oil spill, Alaska
All rights reserved. Credit: Greenpeace / Henk Merjenburgh
Clean up after Exxon Valdez oil spill, Alaska

Twenty-three years ago the Exxon Valdez ran aground at Bligh Reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound. 

The tanker spilled eleven million gallons of oil into the water, fouled 1,500 miles of Alaska’s coast and killed hundreds of thousands of seabirds, otters, seals and whales, and devastated local communities. 

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Tweeting from the rooftops: Shell, keep out of the Arctic

Posted by bex - 21 February 2012 at 5:00pm - 33 Comments

It’s official. On Friday, Shell got a step closer to drilling for oil in our planet’s last wild ocean - the Arctic. 

The company’s oil spill response plan for the Chukchi Sea off Alaska was given the all clear by US authorities, even though it’s a work of almost complete fantasy.

Article tagged as: alaska, arctic, climate change, energy, national gallery, oil, oil spill response plan, shell

The battle for the Frozen North: Point Hope (video)

Posted by bex - 7 December 2011 at 1:45pm - 1 Comment

The small Alaskan community of Point Hope - or Tikiġaq, as the Iñupiaq people call their homeland - is one of the oldest continually occupied sites in North America.

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Northstar legal issues in brief

Publication date:  3 August, 2000

Greenpeace has been campaigning for more than 20 years to stop oil exploration and drilling in the Beaufort Sea, and our particular focus over the past four years has been BP's Northstar project. Greenpeace has reviewed thousands of documents and permits on the project, and has provided oral and written comment at every stage of the permitting process.

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