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Norway police arrest Greenpeace activists at Statoil Arctic oil rig site
2014-05-30 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Norwegian energy firm Statoil has said that Greenpeace activists who boarded Transocean Spitsbergen drilling ship are now in police custody.
Greenpeace accuses palm oil company & Cameroon govt illegal logging
2014-05-28 17:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Greenpeace has just accused one of the world's most controversial oil palm companies, Herakles Farms, of colluding with top government officials to sell off illegally logged timber to China. According to a new report from the environmental group, a stealth agreement between Cameroon's Minister of Forestry, Ngole Philip Ngwese, and Herkales Farms-through a shell company-could torpedo the country's agreement with the EU for better timber management. "This was a deliberate attempt to hide an illegal...
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Greenpeace activists board arctic oil drilling rig
2014-05-27 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Greenpeace activists boarded an oil rig in the Norwegian Arctic on Tuesday to try to stop exploration plans in the far north. Greenpeace, which regularly calls Statoil an 'Arctic aggressor', said plans to drill in the Hoop area of the Barents Sea threaten Bear Island, an uninhabited wildlife sanctuary which is home to rare species and occasionally to polar bears. Oil firms are drilling further north in Norway than ever as the Arctic ice retreats and recent regulation changes let firms work in areas...
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Greenpeace protesters board Statoil's Arctic drilling rig
2014-05-27 11:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Activists from environmental group Greenpeace have climbed aboard an oil drilling rig in the Norwegian Arctic on Tuesday, trying to stop Statoil's exploration plans in one of the world's northernmost prospects, the group said on Tuesday. Greenpeace, which regularly calls Norwegian state-owned Statoil an 'Arctic aggressor', said plans to drill in the Hoop area of the Barents Sea threaten Bear Island, an uninhabited wildlife sanctuary which is home to rare species and occasionally to polar bears....
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Greenpeace warns PepsiCo's palm oil policies will fail to halt deforestation
2014-05-22 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: PepsiCo has unveiled a major new palm oil policy that aims to eliminate deforestation from its supply chain. But the new pledges announced last week have been slammed by Greenpeace for failing to go far enough to guarantee its supply chain will be free from deforestation and social conflict. PepsiCo pledged to ensure that all the 450,000 tonnes of palm oil it sources each year will come only from suppliers who are members of the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), do not develop on...
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