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Effort to ship Bakken oil through Great Lakes hits wall
2013-09-25 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The Great Lakes have been spared the ignominy of becoming a conveyor for crude oil fracked at North Dakota`s Bakken fields. At least for now. Plans to build a crude shipping terminal at Duluth, Minn., on the western shore of Lake Superior, have been shelved because of a lack of refining capacity on the East Coast. From Wisconsin Public Radio: The oil terminal would have shipped crude from the ever-expanding Bakken oil fields in North Dakota, where production has tripled over the past five...
Ulstein Verft delivers Blue Protector supply vessel to Blue Ship Invest
2013-09-25 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Norway-based shipping firm Ulstein Verft has delivered the last of the six X-Bow PX 121 platform supply vessels ordered by Ulstein Groups wholly owned firm Blue Ship Invest.
P&O names new cruise ship
2013-09-25 01:00:00| Ship Technology
British-American owned cruise line P&O Cruises has announced that its new mega-cruise ship, which is slated to enter into service in spring 2015, will be called Britannia.
Greenpeace activists could be charged with terrorism after ship stormed
2013-09-20 19:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Jumping from helicopters and slithering down ropes, more than a dozen armed Russian coastguard workers boarded a Greenpeace ship and took custody of the activists on board, to stop them from disrupting the work of a controversial oil rig. After a scuffle between the activists and the Russian security forces, the 29 activists, including six British nationals, are apparently being held on board at gunpoint, while the ship is forcibly towed to the Arctic port of Murmansk. The Russian coastguard,...
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Russian military raids Greenpeace ship, takes activists hostage
2013-09-20 19:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Armed Russian military have stormed a Greenpeace ship protesting against oil exploitation in remote Arctic waters. According to the last communications from the Arctic Sunrise before all contact was cut at around 4.30pm BST, the Russians dropped guards on to the deck of the vessel by rope from a helicopter, rounded up the Greenpeace crew and broke into the wheel house and communications rooms. Tweets from three people who locked themselves into a secure area on the ship said: "This is pretty...
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