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  • Rainbow Warrior Joins Sailing Protest against Oil Refinery Expansion in Sweden. © Andrew McConnell / Greenpeace
    Press Releases
    RainbowWarrior Oil Climate

    Greenpeace ship stops oil tanker, demand Swedish PM chooses Paris over Preem

    Today Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior and activists from Greenpeace Nordic peacefully blocked the entrance of the Brofjorden port to stop the oil tanker Grena Knutsen, destined for Preem’s oil refinery.

    Greenpeace International
    10 Sep 2020
    2 min read
  • Greenpeace Protests against Shell in the North Sea. © Marten van Dijl / Greenpeace
    Press Releases
    ArcticSunrise Esperanza Oceans Oil

    Greenpeace protests against Shell plans to pollute North Sea

    Greenpeace activists have today launched a protest in the North Sea to call out Shell’s plans to abandon an estimated 11,000 tonnes of oil on the seabed.

    Greenpeace International
    26 Aug 2020
    3 min read
  • Project North Sea: Activists & Rainbow Warrior in Denmark. © Andrew McConnell / Greenpeace
    Stories
    RainbowWarrior Oil

    Occupying an oil rig in the North Sea

    Ida Marie and three activists swam 500 meters from the Rainbow Warrior to occupy a North Sea oil rig.

    Ida Marie
    25 Aug 2020
    3 min read
  • North Sea oil protest
    Press Releases
    RainbowWarrior Oil

    Celebrity support as activists reveal huge art installation on oil rig after 30 hours occupation

    "Inequality, pollution and climate break-down are driven by fossil fuel production sites like these..."

    Greenpeace International
    19 Aug 2020
    1 min read
  • Project North Sea: Activists swim to oil rig to show that Denmark is not as green as people think. © Andrew McConnell / Greenpeace
    Press Releases
    Oil

    Activists swim to oil rig to show that Denmark is not as green as people think

    Our activists swam to and occupied the Dan oil field in Danish North Sea to show that Denmark is not as green as people think.

    Greenpeace International
    18 Aug 2020
    3 min read
  • Investigation of a methane leak in the North Sea
    Press Releases
    Esperanza Oil

    Greenpeace documents North Sea methane leak caused by oil industry blow-out 

    Activists on board the Greenpeace ship Esperanza documented a large methane leak located in the British exclusive economic zone in the North Sea.

    Greenpeace International
    14 Aug 2020
    3 min read
  • safer offshore yemen 1992
    Press Releases
    Oceans Oil

    Letter to the UNSG: Averting an oil spill from the FSO SAFER tanker in Yemen

    ...whilst the Security Council recently met to discuss this issue, progress remains slow. As the Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme said, “time is running out for us to act in a coordinated manner.”

    Jennifer Morgan
    11 Aug 2020
    2 min read
  • Oil Rig in Brent Oil Field in North Sea © Karsten Smid / Greenpeace
    Stories
    EnergyRevolution Oceans

    The North Sea’s choice: Revolution or Destruction?

    The North Sea's Fossil fuel industry is destroying the climate and ocean. Help us start a revolution: call on European governments to make a green transition.

    Silvia Diaz
    31 Jul 2020
    2 min read
  • North Sea Sun Down
    Press Releases
    Esperanza RainbowWarrior Oceans Oil

    Greenpeace ships tracking the fossil fuel industry in the North Sea

    “Covid-19 is not only sending the oil and gas industry into crisis, but hastening it’s inevitable demise, while giving us an opportunity to do the best thing for our future and build back better."

    Greenpeace International
    30 Jul 2020
    2 min read
  • Oil spill at the Nornickel plant spewed thousands of tonnes of oil into land and water in Taimyr, Siberia, turning the Ambarnaya River red. © Anonymous / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Oil

    The human cost of oil: How Indigenous and ethnic minorities bear the brunt of disasters

    "They only lose money; we lose water, land, wildlife, fish resources and the ability to provide our families with minimum income."

    Olesya Vikulova
    26 Jun 2020
    4 min read
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