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48 hours of action against LEGO - this is just the start

Posted by sara_a — 18 July 2014 at 3:30pm - Comments
Lego petition hand in
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Greenpeace activists re-branded LEGO’s Czech factory

Early on Wednesday morning, on an industrial estate in the Czech Republic, our campaign to convince much-loved toy company LEGO to break their partnership with Arctic oil-drillers Shell, moved into a new phase of escalation. Greenpeace activists re-branded LEGO’s Czech factory - one of their three main production centres around the world - with a Shell logo, an oil spill, and giant unhappy minifigures, cleaning it up. 

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Occupation of Arctic oil rig enters second day

Last edited 28 May 2014 at 10:37am

Statoil suggests drilling may be delayed

28 May, 2014


The Barents Sea: May 28, 2014 – A team of Greenpeace activists has now occupied the Statoil oil rig Transocean Spitsbergen for 30 hours, calling for an end to oil drilling in the Arctic and the protection of the nearby Bear Island nature reserve.

In an interview with Bloomberg yesterday, Statoil spokesman Oerjan Heradstveit suggested that the intended start date for the project may have to be delayed due to the protest, which has brought international attention to Norway’s northernmost drilling project.

Speaking from the rig, Elmer Vestidas, a Greenpeace Arctic activist from the Philippines said:

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The last of the Arctic 30 gets bail

Posted by Esther Freeman — 28 November 2013 at 5:48pm - Comments
Colin Russell at his detention hearing in St Petersburg
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Amazing news! This morning Colin Russell was in court in St Petersburg to appeal the decision that he should not be released on bail. Not even four minutes after we learned that his hearing had started, news came that Colin had been granted bail.

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