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Posted by India Thorogood — 28 September 2015 at 2:23pm
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Posted by Claire Donner — 3 September 2015 at 10:01am
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Yesterday, 64 activists, Emma Thompson and First Nations activists and artist Audrey Siegl were outside Shell's London HQ with Aurora, the giant polar bear puppet, to protest Shell's Artcic oil drilling. You can find out more at www.savethearctic.org/ArcticRoar.
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Acclaimed British actor and screenwriter Emma Thompson has just announced
she will be joining an act of mass defiance against a Shell legal injunction
later today, in protest against the company’s Arctic oil drilling.
Speaking after performing a self-penned poem in front of the
oil giant’s HQ, Emma told the press she is going to be the first of scores of people
to break a legal injunction banning Greenpeace UK staff and activists from
crossing a line drawn around the Shell building on the South Bank.
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A colossal polar bear puppet the size of a double decker bus
has descended on Shell’s South Bank headquarters overnight. Acclaimed British
actor and screenwriter Emma Thompson joined 64 activists and puppeteers who
manoeuvred the towering creature to rest just metres away from Shell’s front
entrance.
It’s intended the polar bear titan will remain fixed there
until Shell’s Arctic drilling window ends later this month. Six protesters are
inside the bear, locked to her so she can't be removed.
Last edited 26 August 2015 at 1:42pm
Singer gifts free download to raise profile of Arctic threat
Wednesday 26th August, 2015 - London. Singer-songwriter Charlotte Church
gave today a soulful live performance of ‘Requiem for Arctic Ice’ in protest at
Shell’s attempts to drill for oil in the Arctic.
The event was part of Greenpeace’s month-long run of Titanic-themed
orchestral protests against Arctic drilling outside Shell’s offices on the
South Bank.
As an addition to the Requiem, Charlotte sang a version of ‘This
Bitter Earth’ accompanied by a string ensemble – a poignant combination of
works originally by Max Richter and Dinah Washington.
The live recording of Charlotte’s one-off performance will be made available
as a free download shortly afterwards to help reach more people to let them
know about the threat Shell’s drilling poses to the Arctic.
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Last edited 16 July 2015 at 1:52pm
Oslo, 16 July, 2015 -- A new international agreement to
prevent unregulated fishing in the Arctic Ocean was today signed in Oslo.
Greenpeace welcomed the move as a small step towards Arctic protection but
lamented the failure to make the deal permanent.
Reacting to the agreement, Greenpeace Arctic campaigner
Sophie Allain said:
Posted by Ellen Booth — 27 May 2015 at 3:03pm
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British artists KennardPhillipps have created a new version of the painting 'An Arctic Summer: Boring Through the Pack in Melville Bay' by William Bradford. It shows an oil pipeline spill and rig explosion.
What would our world look like if the oil industry gets its way in the Arctic? That’s what we faced up to as we created our latest short film to challenge Shell, which could begin drilling in Arctic waters in just five weeks’ time.
‘A Song of Oil, Ice and Fire’ exposes how Shell’s greedy plan to drill for oil in the Arctic will jeopardise this unique place. It features classic American landscapes and reimagines them as destroyed by Shell and the oil industry. We wanted to evoke a powerful sense of what Shell is prepared to risk just to line its own pockets.
Posted by Claire Donner — 19 May 2015 at 8:38am
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Watch updates from Shell's 2015 AGM live.
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