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Success! £4,000 raised and a new home for Paula Bear

Posted by jamie — 4 May 2011 at 12:04pm - Comments
Paula's looking for work .. we've got something for her
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Paula's looking for work .. we've got something for her

You are all brilliant.

We asked for your help to raise the cash to buy a polar bear which has become dear to our hearts (well, polar bear costume) and the response has been amazing. You've more than matched our target of £4,000 to find a new home for Paula Bear, and the current total is up around £4,500.

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The Arctic: what's at stake

Posted by jamess — 22 April 2011 at 9:19am - Comments
We must protect the Arctic from dangerous deep water oil drilling
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We must protect the Arctic from dangerous deep water oil drilling

As our action against Cairn's Arctic-bound oil rig gets underway, there's no better time to remind us all of what's at stake - watch and share these powerful pictures.

Drama at sea as green activists intercept 'world's most controversial oil rig'

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Rig spearheading new Arctic oil rush halted by direct action

22 April, 2011

22nd April, Turkey - The only oil rig in the world destined to begin risky new deep sea drilling in the waters off the Arctic has been stopped in its tracks by environmental activists. The huge 53,000 tonne oil rig, called the Leiv Eiriksson, is journeying from a shipyard in Turkey towards Baffin Bay, Greenland - blazing a trail for the world’s major oil companies and spearheading the start of a dangerous new Arctic oil rush.

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

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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.

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