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Russia’s Investigative Committee (IC) has ended a year-long investigation into
a peaceful protest at an Arctic oil rig last year which led to the imprisonment
of 28 activists and two freelance journalists, including six Britons, who became known as the “Arctic
30”.
Posted by Angela Glienicke — 15 August 2014 at 2:50pm
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Site of an oil spill outside Usinsk in the Komi Republic
We all took notice when
about 4.9 million barrels of oil were spilled into the Gulf of Mexico during
the Deepwater Horizon disaster, but the fact that about 30 million barrels of oil are spilled on Russian
land each year might be news to a lot of us.
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Amsterdam, 9 August 2014 - The Greenpeace icebreaker Arctic Sunrise
today sailed back into Dutch territorial waters after over 300 days in Russian
custody. The ship had been held illegally since taking part in a peaceful
direct action against state owned oil company Gazprom, as it tried to drill the
world’s first oil well in icy Arctic waters.
Several members of the so called ‘Arctic 30’ were there to greet the ship,
including Phil Ball from Oxfordshire in the UK, and boarded the vessel in
Beverwijk, near Amsterdam.
“This is a joyous day for me, for my friends and for the millions of people
around the world who campaigned for the release of the Arctic 30 and the Arctic
Sunrise”, says Dutch climate and energy campaigner Faiza Oulahsen, who spent
two months in Russian prison last year on piracy and then hooliganism charges
following the protest.
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In response to comments from the NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Russia, Environmental NGOs and fracking, a Greenpeace spokesperson said:
"Greenpeace had thirty of its
people locked up in Russian prisons last year, threatened with fifteen years in
jail. The idea we’re puppets of Putin is so preposterous that you have to
wonder what they’re smoking over at NATO HQ. Mr Rasmussen should spend less
time dreaming up conspiracy theories and more time on the facts. Fracked gas
will probably cost more than Russian imports, there’s little chance fracking will
generate more than a small fraction of Europe’s gas needs and it won’t even do
that for at least ten years.
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Posted by Esther Freeman — 18 December 2013 at 4:43pm
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Big news! The Arctic 30 have been granted amnesty.
Earlier today the Russian government agreed to amend an amnesty bill to include the Arctic 30, and just now the bill was officially adopted by their parliament. This means legal proceedings against them will be halted and they should be home soon.
Posted by Graham Thompson — 6 December 2013 at 3:10pm
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Over 2.5 million emails have been sent to Russian embassies around the world
We've
received a reply from the Russian embassy in London in response to the
thousands of emails sent in support of the Arctic 30. It's a shame they didn't
respond to everyone personally, but any response is always welcome.
It's a short
letter from press secretary Artem Kozhin and a much longer Q&A-style
document which sets out the Russian government's position, but naturally it's
not one that I, or anyone else here, agrees with.
Here are the
main claims and allegations, and details on why they're unfounded.
