Save the Arctic

Last edited 14 March 2014 at 1:26pm

The fragile Arctic is under threat from both climate change and oil drilling. As climate change melts the Arctic ice, oil companies are moving in to extract more of the fossil fuels that caused the melt in the first place. But above the Arctic circle, freezing temperatures, a narrow drilling window and a remote location mean that an oil spill would be almost impossible to deal with. It's a catastrophe waiting to happen. Greenpeace is working to halt climate change and to stop this new oil rush at the top of the world.

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Chopped down Boreal forest near a tar sands mine in Alberta, Canada

Are oil investors using the wrong indicators of value?

We've released a report today with partners from Platform and Oil Change International about oil investment and increasingly risky sources of oil. Download the...
Posted by jamess - 17 January, 2011 - 14:06
Polar bear crossing the melting sea ice

2011: The Arctic vs Big Oil

Cairn Energy has fired the starting guns on its 2011 Arctic drilling operation. Their plan is to lug a couple of massive rigs up to the icy waters around...
Posted by jamess - 6 January, 2011 - 13:23 -

Cairn fails to find Arctic oil

One of Cairn's tugs, towing an iceberg out the way of its Arctic oil rig Bing. Email received. Cairn Energy sent its “Greenland Operational Update” this...
Posted by jamess - 26 October, 2010 - 15:41

Video: Victor, one of our Chevron anchor legends

Watch this great video of Victor, who along with Anais, was the first to scale Chevron’s Stena Carron anchor chain and start the 100 hour occupation of the...
Posted by jamess - 27 September, 2010 - 15:02 -

It's our birthday and we'll go beyond oil if we want to

The first Greenpeace ship - the Phyllis Cormack - in 1971 © Greenpeace / Robert Keziere Today is the 39th birthday of Greenpeace and we have just arrived...
Posted by lisavickers - 15 September, 2010 - 16:58 -

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