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Shell fails to silence Greenpeace at hearing on new tar sands mine

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | October 18, 2012 1 comment

This is my new favourite headline: Shell attempt to bar Greenpeace from Jackpine hearing denied . But it doesn’t tell the whole story. Basically, Shell tried to silence us, and it didn’t work. Which is a good thing, but the...

Polar bear takes action for the Arctic in Downtown Vancouver

Blog entry by Alexandra Roper, volunteer | October 11, 2012 1 comment

While walking down Granville Street early Friday morning, you may have been shocked at the sight before your eyes. Not a usual frequenter of our city, a polar bear was spotted roaming around the streets looking sad and homeless. ...

SUCCESS! Shell stops Arctic oil drilling for this year

Blog entry by Ben Ayliffe | September 17, 2012 1 comment

You did it. For over six months, huge numbers of us have been pressuring Shell to stay out of the Arctic. Well this morning, company bosses announced they were scrapping their oil drilling programme for this year. It's a huge ...

Shell’s carbon capture plan for the tar sands has some holes

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | September 6, 2012 1 comment

Shell was making headlines around the world yesterday for giving the green light to their “Quest” project to capture carbon dioxide emissions from a plant that processes bitumen from the tar sands. Or rather, I should say the...

It’s not often you can say that you made history

Blog entry by Sarah Shoraka, Greenpeace International | July 24, 2012

This week, people like you and me, all around the world, stood up to #tellshell – no. We don’t have as much money as Shell but we do have courage and creativity on our side and with a million people already signed up to our scroll to...

Back to the future: Shell oil spill response plan approved for the Arctic

Blog entry by Dan Howells, Greenpeace USA | March 29, 2012

Sea otter at rehabilitation centre in Valdez after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. Today, the US Government approved Shell’s oil spill response plan for the Beaufort Sea, a remote expanse of ocean that must count as one of...

In Pod We Trust

Blog entry by Jess Wilson | April 7, 2013

Every couple of months, something bizarre happens at work that convinces me I must have one of the strangest jobs on the planet. And these moments often come in the form of a question. Questions like, “Did One Direction’s tweet...

Latest score: Arctic 2 - Oil industry 0!

Blog entry by Truls Gulowsen | March 8, 2013

Shell’s spectacular series of mishaps in Alaska has definitely not been going down unnoticed in the oil industry. The Norwegian state-owned oil company Statoil is slowing down plans to drill for oil in US Arctic waters after Shell’s...

Obama's climate legacy will start when Shell’s Arctic drilling stops

Blog entry by Ben Ayliffe | February 26, 2013

Since Shell's Kulluk rig ran aground off Alaska, the US Department of Interior and the US Coast Guard have both launched independent investigations to find out what went wrong with the company's drilling operations in the far north. ...

“The Arctic Expedition” International Youth Forum: A Russian Pro-Oil PR Project?

Blog entry by Allen Brett Campeau* | March 16, 2015 2 comments

Russia and the Arctic Region have long held a special fascination for me as a young Arctic scientist and policy wonk, so you can imagine my excitement when I learned about the International Youth Forum “The Arctic Expedition”, a...

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