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31 activists arrested attempting to stop Arctic oil from docking in Europe
2014-05-01 21:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Dutch police arrested 31 Greenpeace activists today, who were attempting to block the Russian oil tanker, Mikhail Ulyanov, from delivering the first shipment of offshore Arctic oil to the European market. Greenpeace opposes drilling in the Arctic due to the difficulty of cleaning up any oil spill in remote, ice-filled waters, and the exacerbation of global climate change from exploiting new fossil fuel sources. Among those arrested was the captain of the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior,...
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