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Greenpeace launches legal bid ban UK fracking
2013-10-14 12:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Greenpeace has launched a landmark legal challenge to halt fracking in England, claiming drilling under people's homes without permission is unlawful. The campaign group made the announcement at a press conference in Lancashire, which has been the front line of the UK's nascent shale gas industry. Greenpeace now hopes thousands of people will join the legal challenge, creating a patchwork of "no go" areas for shale oil and gas developers across the country. "Under English law, if you own...
Free the Greenpeace 30!
2013-10-14 11:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Like most caring, nurturing souls who believe in a cleaner, better, happier world I'm keen for the 30 Greenpeace activists currently being held on piracy charges by the Russians to be released from prison as soon as possible. If you saw last Thursday's coverage of the issue on BBC Newsnight, you might understand why. It featured an interview with Paul Simonon, formerly guitarist with the Clash, about his experiences in 2011 when after getting involved in a similar Arctic rig protest with Greenpeace...
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Russian Investigators Say 'Hard Drugs Found' on Greenpeace Arctic Ship
2013-10-09 08:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Russian investigators say they have found what appear to be hard drugs on board the Greenpeace ship seized during a protest in the Arctic last month. "During a search of the ship, drugs (apparently poppy straw and morphine) were confiscated," Russia's Investigative Committee said. Poppy straw, or raw opium, can be used to produce morphine or heroin. Greenpeace said in a statement that any suggestion of illegal drugs being found was a "smear". "We can only assume the Russian authorities...
Greenpeace head offers himself as security to win bail for 'piracy' activists
2013-10-09 06:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The head of Greenpeace offered on Wednesday to move to Russia and stand as security for the release on bail of 30 people who were detained and charged with piracy by Russian authorities after protesting against oil drilling in the Arctic. The offer was made in a letter written by Kumi Naidoo to Russian President Vladimir Putin that was seen by Reuters and sent on Wednesday. It follows a Russian court's decision to refuse bail to three of the detainees. "I would offer myself as a guarantor for...
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Concern for health of Greenpeace activists detained in Russia
2013-10-07 12:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Some of the 28 Greenpeace activists and two journalists being detained in Russia while awaiting piracy charges are being kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, while others are held in "extremely cold" cells, according to the head of Greenpeace. Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace International's executive director, told the Guardian that the crew had been split up into several prisons across the port city of Murmansk in north-west Russia, which is in the Arctic Circle. Three of the group have been...
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