Everyone’s got their personal reasons for taking action. For me, deciding to jump in front of a moving drill ship was not only about protecting the environment and stopping climate change, it was also about peace. Our addiction...

The story: Four Greenpeace environmental campaigners swim out in front of a giant oil drilling ship, operated by the US energy giant Chevron, in open seas in an effort to halt its progress towards a deep water drilling site off...

Here's a short but sweet clip of Greenpeace climbers Anais (from Germany) and Victor (from Sweden) setting up their equipment on top the anchor chain of the Stena Carron drilling ship off Shetland. You really get a sense of just how...

It appears that oil companies live in a universe parallel to our own. Let’s call it Lalaland. Lalaland is a very special place – a sort of dreamland if you’re a top executive working in drilling – for, say, Transocean. It’s a...

After a mammoth 50 hours in the water in front of their drill ship, following 100 hours on Chevron's anchor chain, the oil giant's lawyers have again stopped our protest. Last night we received news over the ship's radio that...

The story: Greenpeace campaigners who yesterday stopped the Chevron's Stena Carron oil platform from leaving Scotland to drill a deep water well have attached a purpose-built reinforced "survival pod" to its huge anchor chain and say...

Following a heroic 24 hours by Anais and Victor in the tent suspended off the anchor chain, today we stepped it all up a notch by bringing in a purpose-built half-tonne survival pod. I say ‘we’ but in fact I just sat on the safety...

James on the Espernanza writes... It’s been a hectic day - but a successful one. We heard at our ship’s briefing this morning at 0800 that our friends were going to attempt to get on Chevron’s massive Stena Carren rig in the next...

Don't think we never agree with government agencies. Yesterday, we did - when the final report from the US National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill came out. Essentially, it's what Greenpeace and other...