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Occupation of Arctic oil rig enters second day

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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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Activists block two major drilling rigs in 24 hours as ‘Save the Arctic’ campaign escalates

Last edited 27 May 2014 at 2:48pm
27 May, 2014



London, May 27th 2014 -- Greenpeace activists from 12 countries blocked two separate oil rigs destined to drill in the Arctic ocean in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The environmental group said that the threat to the rapidly melting Arctic from a group of international oil companies requires ‘a truly global response’.


A group of 30 activists in the Dutch port of IJmuiden occupied the GSP Saturn, a rig contracted by Russia’s state owned energy company Gazprom on its way to the remote Pechora sea. They were removed after five hours and six activists remain under arrest.

Another group of 15 is currently occupying the Transocean Spitsbergen, under contract to Norway’s state owned company Statoil as it prepares to drill the world’s northernmost well in the Barents Sea. Both Gazprom and Statoil’s projects are taking place deep inside the Arctic circle.

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