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United Kingdom: Greenpeace protesters 'frack' Lancashire council hall
2013-09-04 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Around 10 protesters from Greenpeace have erected a mock drilling rig outside Lancashire council hall, in protest at plans by energy company Cuadrilla to resume fracking in the county this autumn. The action follows a similar stunt by the green group in March, when it set up a rig in the Cheshire constituency of the chancellor, George Osborne, who has been one of the most vocal backers of fracking for shale gas. Liz Stanton, a Preston resident and Greenpeace supporter, told the Guardian that...
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Greenpeace objects to Russian offshore Arctic drilling
2013-08-27 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Environmental organisation Greenpeace said Rosneft and ExxonMobil are exploring in the offshore Arctic and the Russian Coast Guard has threatened to fire on one of its ships, which was trying to expose them.
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Greenpeace Icebreaker Denied Entry into Kara Sea to Protest Oil Exploration
2013-08-22 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Russia has blocked the entry of a Greenpeace boat into its waters, the environmental activist group said Wednesday, suggesting that its attempts to stage a peaceful protest were blocked in order to hide the extent of a oil exploration program in operation by Exxon Mobil and Russia's energy giant Rosneft. Greenpeace said its icebreaker Arctic Sunrise was repeatedly denied entry into the portion of the Kara Sea where the joint oil exploration endeavor is underway offshore north of western Siberia....
Russia blocks Greenpeace ship from entering Arctic waters
2013-08-21 12:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Russia has blocked a Greenpeace ship from entering Arctic waters where the environmentalist group was planning to protest against oil exploration activities by Rosneft and Exxon Mobil, the group has said. Russian authorities had denied the icebreaker Arctic Sunrise entry to the Northern Sea Route, citing questions over the vessel's ice strengthening, Greenpeace said in a statement. It said the Arctic Sunrise has a higher ice classification than many of the more than 400 vessels that have been...
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Japan's PM Joins Greenpeace in Signal Tepco Not Up to Cleanup
2013-08-08 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an unlikely companion with environment protection campaigner Greenpeace as both indicated Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) isnt up to the task of containing the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Greenpeaces comments were blunt, Abes less so, though they both agreed on the seriousness of revelations that radioactive groundwater is gushing into the Pacific Ocean from the crippled coastal atomic station north of Tokyo. At least 300 tons of water laced with strontium...
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