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Stop Deep Sea Drilling

Greenpeace campaigner Truls Gulowsen talks with Erik Solheim, Norwegian Minister of the Environment and International development. Greenpeace has invited OSPAR-nations (Protecting and conserving the North-East Atlantic and its resources) to declare their support for a ban on offshore oil drilling. More information.

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Stop Deep Sea Drilling

Oil Spills - the true cost of fossil fuels.

BREAKING NEWS: Nearly 12,000 barrels of crude oil spilled out of Exxon Mobil’s Pegasus pipeline into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood causing the evacuation of 22 homes last Friday. The pipeline originates in Patoka, Illinois, and carries crude oil to the Texas Gulf Coast from Western Canada. Greenpeace USA has the story.

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Government hypocrisy on major projects will lock in climate chaos

Press release | January 22, 2013 at 14:26

Sydney/Davos, January, 22, 2013 — Government hypocrisy on major energy projects is fueling climate change and placing populations at risk, Greenpeace International said as it released a new report revealing the alarming threat posed by a planned...

Shell’s 2013 Arctic drilling programme 'on the brink' after drill rig runs aground

Press release | January 4, 2013 at 19:14

Washington DC, January 4, 2013 – Following news that Shell’s stranded oil rig has suffered serious damage since being grounded in the Gulf of Alaska, Greenpeace predicts the company will now struggle to complete its planned 2013 drilling...

Greenpeace Prevents Arctic Oil Drilling Operation

Press release | May 29, 2011 at 8:42

Greenland, Sunday 29 May 2011 – Environmental campaigners from Greenpeace have scaled the world’s most controversial oil rig and are hanging from the underside in an Arctic survival pod with enough food and water to stay there for ten days. Their...

Cowboy oil company Cairn Energy headquarters blocked by Polar Bear in Arctic protest

Press release | May 26, 2011 at 11:43

Edinburgh, 26 May 2011 – Greenpeace activists this morning blocked the entrance of the Edinburgh headquarters of the Scottish Oil Company Cairn Energy - demanding the company stop spearheading the dangerous new Arctic oil rush. (1) Cairn Energy...

Arctic Stand-Off: Greenpeace ships confront world’s most controversial oil rig

Press release | May 24, 2011 at 8:24

Greenland, 24th May 2011– Two Greenpeace ships are in a tense stand-off with Danish navy commandos protecting an oil drilling operation in the freezing seas off Greenland.

Greenpeace statement on Greenland government approval of Cairn Energy drilling permits

Press release | May 10, 2011 at 16:39

Nuuk, Greenland, 10 May 2011 -- Reacting to the announcement that Greenland’s government has approved Cairn Energy’s application to drill four offshore oil wells this year in the Disko-Nuussuaq and Nuuk areas.

Deteriorating weather conditions force activists to end Arctic oil rig protest

Press release | April 22, 2011 at 17:43

Turkey, 22 April 2011 - Climbers from the environmental group Greenpeace have been forced by bad weather to end a protest onboard the world’s second largest oil rig, the Leiv Eiriksson, which this morning left Turkey on a dangerous mission to...

Green activists continue Arctic oil rig occupation at sea

Press release | April 22, 2011 at 16:04

Turkey, 22 April 2011 - Climbers from the environmental group Greenpeace are still occupying an huge oil rig which departed from Turkey early this morning bound for a dangerous deep drilling operation in the Arctic. Campaigners boarded the 53...

Drama at sea as activists halt departure of dangerous Arctic oil rig

Press release | April 22, 2011 at 5:21

22nd April, Turkey – The international environmental group Greenpeace today prevented the departure of the Leiv Eiriksson oil rig from Turkey bound for Greenland’s Baffin Bay, in a bid to protect the pristine Arctic environment from dangerous...

UK Government Slammed for Giving Go-Head to First Deep Water Drilling Since BP Disaster

UK Government Slammed for Giving Go-Head to First Deep Water Drilling Since BP Disaster

Press release | October 1, 2010 at 12:38

London, 1st October 2010 - Greenpeace condemned a UK government decision made late last night to grant the first consent for deep water oil drilling in UK waters since the Gulf of Mexico oil as bizarre. Greenpeace is preparing to take legal...

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