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Greenpeace vows incarceration won'tt stop Arctic oil campaign
2013-12-19 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Greenpeace will step up its campaign to confront oil companies working in the Arctic, but has not decided whether to attempt to board Russian oil platforms, again, its UK director said . Speaking after it was announced that an amnesty approved by the Russian parliament would cover the Arctic 30 protesters, John Sauven said that the arrests had backfired spectacularly on the Russian authorities by creating an "iconic" campaign that had gained global attention. There have been 860 protests in...
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Planned Russian amnesty set to cover 'Arctic 30': Greenpeace
2013-12-18 12:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Thirty people arrested in Russia over a protest against Arctic oil drilling will avoid trial and the threat of jail under an amnesty set to be approved by parliament, lawyers and Greenpeace said on Wednesday. Last-minute changes to the amnesty proposed by President Vladimir Putin mean legal proceedings against the 30 are "almost certain" to end and the 26 non-Russians among them should be able to go home, the environmental group said. The arrest of the men and women whom Greenpeace call the...
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Greenpeace Activists Detail Russias Capricious Justice System
2013-12-04 01:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: An odd thing about the investigation into what exactly happened in the Arctic on Sept. 18 between activists on a Greenpeace International ship and the Russian authorities was how little the investigators asked about the episode when they called the 30 crew members in for questioning, one by one, from their isolated holding cells. Working through translators, because most of the crew spoke little or no Russian, the investigators produced sheet after sheet of documents for the detainees to sign, chronicling...
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Captain of Seized Greenpeace Ship Speaks From Russia
2013-11-24 00:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Russian commandos who boarded a Greenpeace ship in the Arctic two months ago were coldly professional at first, pointing automatic weapons at terrified crew members and forcing them to kneel. But after discerning no threat, they began plundering the crews alcohol supply, and quickly descended into drunken revelry. So went the account of Peter Willcox, the American captain of the ship, the Arctic Sunrise, in his first interview since his release from detention. He recalled his odyssey through...
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EMA Groups BlueTraker LRIT tracks Greenpeace ship seized by Russia
2013-11-22 01:00:00| Ship Technology
EMA Group has allowed Greenpeace and the Dutch Flag State to track the ship seized by Russia through its BlueTraker long range identification and tracking (LRIT) device.
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