Oil Spill

LIVE: we've scaled and occupied Cairn's Arctic rig

Posted by jamess — 22 April 2011 at 7:03am - Comments
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UPDATE: Force 7 gales have forced the activists down from the rig and to safety. But the campaign continues - stay tuned.

It's the only rig on the planet that is destined to begin new deep sea drilling in the Arctic this year.

Cairn Energy's Leiv Eiriksson is on its way to Baffin Bay, Greenland, leading the new oil rush.

This morning at 5.40 local time, a handful of our volunteers intercepted the rig shortly after it left Besiktas near Istanbul in Turkey.

Article tagged as: arctic, cairn, cairn energy, climage change, climate, go beyond oil, oil, oil spill

Say no to a Deepwater Horizon in UK waters

Posted by jamess — 20 April 2011 at 9:48am - Comments
Oiled Brown Pelicans in Louisiana
All rights reserved. Credit: Daniel Beltrá / Greenpeace
Oiled Brown Pelicans in Louisiana

Not an anniversary to celebrate.

It's been 365 days since BP's negligence, and the arrogance of the wider oil industry, led to the worst oil spill in US history: killing 11 rig workers and unleashing five million tonnes of oil, wrecking the Gulf Coast and killing birds and other wildlife.

The causes behind the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe remain unclear - but still oil companies are desperate to carry out similar drilling in UK waters.

Article tagged as: BP, climate, climate change, deepwater horizon, go beyond oil, oil spill

The first time I smelled the oil: remembering the Gulf of Mexico

Posted by jamess — 20 April 2011 at 9:29am - Comments
Heavy crude oil in the wetland grasses on an island in Bay Batiste
All rights reserved. Credit: Kate Davison / Greenpeace
Heavy crude oil in the wetland grasses on an island in Bay Batiste

Gulf Coast local Lamar Billups writes a poignant guest blog, via our US office:

First I would like to thank Greenpeace for allowing me the honor of writing a blog for the one-year anniversary of the BP oil disaster. You are the best, and, on behalf of the millions of people on the gulf, we thank you for the research and help you gave after us this spill.

I remember the first time I smelled the oil: I was at my son’s baseball game. Part way into the game everyone began to smell something like burning tires.

Article tagged as: BP, climate, climate change, deepwater horizon, go beyond oil, gulf of mexico, oil spill

BP AGM Live coverage feed

Posted by jamess — 14 April 2011 at 9:42am - Comments

Today was the first BP Annual General Meeting since the Gulf of Mexico oil spill - where both furious investors and protesters voiced their frustrations at BP's abysmal handling of the disaster. Greenpeace were there - here's our live feed of tweets, news, images and videos from the event at Excel London:

Article tagged as: agm, BP, climate change, deepwater horizon, fossil fuels, go beyond oil, gulf of mexico, oil spill, tar sands

Sneaky oil drillers - let's stop them

Posted by jamess — 4 February 2011 at 6:42pm - Comments
Hess' own projection of a possible spill. Terrifying.
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Hess' own projection of a possible spill. Terrifying.

The oil companies are at it again: they're trying to drill another deep water well off the Shetland Islands. Let's stop them.

Article tagged as: chevron, go beyond oil, hess, oil, oil spill, shetland
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