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Greenpeace volunteers intercept BP oil barge

Last edited 7 August 2000 at 8:00am
7 August, 2000

August 2000. Six Greenpeace volunteers (including four Britons) today occupied a British Petroleum transport barge off the Alaskan coast as it was being towed to the construction site of the Northstar project - the first offshore oil development in the Arctic Ocean. The volunteers (from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise) boarded the massive sea barge at 9.00am GMT (midnight in Alaska). The barge carries the main operating and accomodation modules for Northstar.

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Northstar legal issues in brief

Last edited 3 August 2000 at 8:00am
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3 August, 2000

Greenpeace has been campaigning for more than 20 years to stop oil exploration and drilling in the Beaufort Sea, and our particular focus over the past four years has been BP's Northstar project. Greenpeace has reviewed thousands of documents and permits on the project, and has provided oral and written comment at every stage of the permitting process.

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The facts on BP's Northstar project

Last edited 31 July 2000 at 8:00am
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31 July, 2000

Ever since the discovery of the massive Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaska's North Slope in 1968, the oil industry has longed to search for and develop offshore. Extreme Arctic conditions and the immensely powerful and shifting Arctic ice pack meant that exploration, and particularly production, would be extremely expensive and risky. Flying in the face of it's 'green' rhetoric and pronouncements on the dangers of climate change, BP Amoco is now trying to move offshore, to develop new oil which will inevitably add to the burden of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

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Greenpeace has taken its fight to protect the world's climate to the ice of the Arctic Ocean

Last edited 2 May 2000 at 8:00am
The Arctic under threar from oil exploration - painting by Kurt Jackson

The Arctic under threar from oil exploration - painting by Kurt Jackson

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Greenpeace activists continue confrontation at BP arctic oil site for second day

Last edited 11 April 2000 at 8:00am
11 April, 2000

Beaufort Sea, Alaska, 1700 BST, -- For the second day running, Greenpeace activists confronted the construction of BP's controversial Northstar offshore oil project. Braving wind chills of minus 50 degrees F (-46C), activists towed a fiberglass dome into the construction area with two Greenpeace activists locked inside, while UK activist Martin Cotterell and one other protestor made for the man-made gravel island to display banners reading, "Stop BP's Northstar, Save the Climate".

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Greenpeace activists confront BP Amoco at arctic oil site

Last edited 11 April 2000 at 8:00am
11 April, 2000

Beaufort Sea, Alaska, 7pm (UK time) - In an effort to protect the Arctic from the dual threats of climate change and oil spills four Greenpeace activists attempted to stop the controversial pipe-laying operation at BP's Northstar project, the first offshore oil project to be built in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's north coast. One activist managed to climb onto the backhoe laying the pipe and displayed a banner reading "Stop BP's Northstar". The pipe-laying operation is currently stopped. Police have now arrested all four Greenpeace activists.

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