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No Arctic Oil Activists Arrested Swarming Oil Tanker
2014-05-03 05:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mint Press: According to early reports, at least 30 members of the Greenpeace team have been arrested by Dutch officials. Supported by the group`s flagship the Rainbow Warrior III, a fleet of inflatable rafts, and a paraglider circling above, the international team of environmentalists--who say protecting the Arctic from drilling is vital in protecting the region`s fragile ecosystems and battling planetary climate change--delivered a clear message from above and below: 'No Arctic Oil." One group of activists...
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44 Greenpeacers Arrested at Rotterdam Arctic Oil Protest
2014-05-01 22:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Early this morning, 80 Greenpeace activists confronted the tanker carrying the first shipment of oil from the Russian Arctic. During the demonstration, the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior was boarded by Dutch security agents in the Port of Rotterdam and 44 activists were taken into custody. The agents forcibly entered the Rainbow Warrior`s communications room and towed the ship to shore after it intercepted the Russian tanker, loaded with Arctic oil. The 258-meter-long Russian tanker Mikhail...
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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,...
Woman arrested over death of pensioner in her 80s at care home
2014-05-01 14:30:09| Jewelry - Topix.net
Police have sealed off a number of rooms at the home in Norwich after the pensioner was found dead at 10pm on last night.
Greenpeace ship captain arrested in Arctic oil protest
2014-05-01 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Dutch police have arrested the captain of a Greenpeace vessel, after activists tried to stop a Russian tanker delivering oil controversially drilled from the Arctic to a port in Rotterdam. The Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior blocked the Mikhail Ulyanov tanker as it attempted to moor in the Dutch citys harbour early on Thursday morning. Police quickly boarded the vessel and arrested around 30 activists, but were unable to move the Warrior for around two hours. By this time, activists on smaller...
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