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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.

Four Greenpeace volunteers occupy second oil rig to protect the climate and wildlife

Last edited 31 March 2000 at 9:00am
31 March, 2000

Four Greenpeace volunteers have occupied a second oil exploration rig in Cromarty Firth, Scotland, as part of a campaign to stop dangerous climate change and protect marine life in the north east Atlantic. The occupation comes just days after two Greenpeace climbers occupied the Jack Bates exploration rig in the same area. Both rigs are due to begin drilling operations in the deep waters west of the Hebrides (the so called "Atlantic Frontier") which is Europe's most important habitat for whales and coral reefs.

Police search for oil activists

Last edited 28 March 2000 at 9:00am
28 March, 2000

Police are still searching for two Greenpeace volunteers who vanished after abandoning their occupation of an oil rig.

The protesters had tied themselves to Enterprise Oil's Jack Bates platform in the Cromarty Firth on Sunday and spent the night there before coming down at 1600 BST on Monday. Grampian Police then lost sight of them.

The protesters left the rig after being ordered to come down by a judge in Edinburgh who granted Enterprise Oil an interdict.

Greenpeace targets high street banks and pension funds over investment in arctic oil development

Last edited 21 March 2000 at 9:00am
21 March, 2000
SANE BP
The BP Amoco AGM - will Sanity prevail?

Greenpeace launched a new internet initiative to enable customers of high street banks, insurance companies and pension funds to find out if their money is being invested in a damaging new BP Amoco Arctic oil development.

Greenpeace ice campers arrested exposing BP Amoco's destruction of the arctic

Last edited 20 March 2000 at 9:00am
20 March, 2000
Greenpeace Arctic ice camp

Greenpeace Arctic ice camp

Two Greenpeace volunteers and a British photographer were arrested last night attempting to expose oil company BP Amoco's destruction of the Arctic. The three were documenting BP Amoco's Arctic oil project when they were arrested by Alaska State troopers. The arrests occurred just before the arrival of a party of journalists invited by BP to visit the construction site of Northstar - the first offshore oilrig in the Alaskan Arctic Ocean.

 

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"Solar Energy: from perennial promise to competitive alternative"

Last edited 2 March 2000 at 9:00am

Greenpeace installing solar panels at BP
Greenpeace installing solar panels at BP

This study is based on analysis of existing studies updated by interviews with experts in solar energy. It considers the factors that influence the price of photovoltaic systems: technological developments, subsidies and the scale of production.

Greenpeace volunteers set up Arctic ice camp to

Last edited 28 February 2000 at 9:00am
28 February, 2000

Greenpeace Arctic ice camp

Greenpeace volunteers have set up an ice camp on the frozen Arctic Ocean to investigate and monitor the construction of BP Amoco's 'Northstar', the first offshore oil rig to be built in the Alaskan Arctic. Equipped with polar survival gear and communications equipment, the eight volunteers, braving temperatures of minus 42 C, set up camp just one mile from the controversial Northstar site. The camp was completed early this morning (Monday). 

Due to the extreme Arctic winter, the ice camp, which consists of two survival huts powered by five wind turbines, took over two weeks to deploy. The volunteers used snow machines to travel to a temporary site seven miles from the camp, where they spent 15 days living in tents, preparing a runway for a supply plane. A parachutist helped guide the plane in to land. The supplies were then shuttled out on snowmobiles to the final camp, one mile from BP's Northstar site.

Speaking from the camp, Dan Ritzman, Greenpeace climate campaigner said,
"We're here to highlight the threat BP poses to the future of the Arctic. Our camp is on the frontline of global warming - the Arctic is heating up faster than anywhere else on the planet. The ice is melting, polar bears are starving yet BP is digging for new oil which will only make the problem worse. BP's customers would be shocked to see what the company is trying do out here."

BP Amoco's Northstar will speed up the effects of climate change, which is having a devastating effect on the Western Arctic. Polar bears are already starving as the Arctic ice pack on which they hunt melts away. Overall ice thickness has already declined by 40% and an area of ice bigger than Wales disappears every year.

UK And US Shareholders Force Vote On BP Amoco Arctic Plans

Last edited 26 January 2000 at 9:00am
26 January, 2000

BP AGM: polar bear

Shareholders to choose between arctic oil or solar factory

A hundred shareholders holding over 120,000 shares today (26/1/00) forced BP Amoco's Arctic exploration plans onto the company's annual general meeting agenda by submitting a formal resolution opposing BP's controversial 'Northstar' project. Investors in BP Amoco will now have the chance to vote on whether the high-risk rig and sub-sea pipeline project in the Arctic Ocean should go ahead. The move will also give BP Amoco's 800,000 shareholders a chance to prevent the company from lobbying for the opening of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the only part of America's Arctic completely off-limits to oil exploration.

SANE BP - shareholders taking action

Posted by bex — 25 January 2000 at 9:00am - Comments
BP branding

BP branding

SANE BP is an umbrella group for BP investors who are concerned about climate change, and currently includes Greenpeace, the US Public Research Interest Group and many individual socially responsible investors. SANE BP offers intelligence, advice and encouragement to BP shareholders, large and small, who share our aim to move the company away from damaging oil exploration, and towards renewable energy.

Inupiat Eskimos and Greenpeace court challenge to BP Amoco Arctic oil drilling

Last edited 21 October 1999 at 8:00am
21 October, 1999

October 21st, 1999 - Greenpeace today joined Inupiat Eskimos living on Alaska's North Slope to file a lawsuit to challenge BP Amoco's drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska's north coast. The lawsuit challenges the US Federal Government for permitting the project on the grounds that it lacks an adequate oil spill plan and jeopardizes the marine and coastal environment of the Arctic Ocean, and the Inupiat subsistence way of life.

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