Blogposts tagged 'Stena Don'

Stick your message on our pod

Posted by jamie - 22 September 2010 at 1:31pm - 16 Comments

Not all of us can scamper up an oil rig's anchor chain - but we can all come up with ideas, and we need yours asap.

As our occupation of Chevron's massive drill ship goes on, we want a banner slogan from you to explain what our politicians need to do about deep water drilling.

Article tagged as: chevron, climate change, energy, esperanza, go beyond oil, oil, stena don

Video: Esperanza to climb team, over

Posted by jamie - 2 September 2010 at 3:46pm - 14 Comments

This was the scene on the Esperanza's bridge as Luke called through to Sim on the Stena Don for the last time, as the climbers prepared to leave the oil rig. Apologies for the audio which is a bit fuzzy, but here's a transcript:

Article tagged as: arctic, cairn energy, climate change, esperanza, go beyond oil, oil, stena don, videos

Video: evading navy boats and climbing up oil rigs

Posted by jamie - 31 August 2010 at 1:49pm - 20 Comments

In the last couple of hours, we've received this footage from the Esperanza from this morning's daring occupation of the Stena Don, the oil rig operated by Cairn Energy. It shows just what an amazing feat the guys and gals there have pulled off, not least evading the Danish navy and scaling the oil rig legs.

Article tagged as: cairn energy, climate change, go beyond oil, oil, stena don, videos

A day in iceberg alley

Posted by tracy - 24 August 2010 at 3:53pm - 18 Comments

The standoff with the Danish navy continues in the Arctic today. They're guarding Cairn Energy's oil drilling operations in the Davis Straits which the company revealed today has found gas.

The day has also revealed what a hazardous area this is for drilling and the crew of the Esperanza got to see why locals call the area iceberg alley.

The oil drilling rigs are accompanied by a number of tug boats that must rope and tug icebergs away from the rigs if they get too close. The fire ships were also using hoses against smaller icebergs today and limit the number of icebergs near the drilling sites.

Article tagged as: arctic, cairn energy, climate change, esperanza, go beyond oil, greenland, iceberg alley, oil, oil drilling, stena don, stena forth
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