Scoop
| 9 months ago
At 4am local time the activists set off in three inflatable speedboats from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise and scaled the platform via mooring lines. Six climbers have taken up positions on the structure and have interrupted the platform's...
United Press International
| 9 months ago
Greenpeace activists invaded a Russian oil rig on the arctic shelf Friday and unveiled a banner saying "Don't kill the arctic." The organization said the six climbers were in places they could not be reached and had supplies for several days.
GMA News
| 9 months ago
Russia's first offshore Arctic oil development - in tents pitched on small scaffolds. They retreated to a Greenpeace ship "to avoid unnecessary risk in these freezing Arctic conditions," the group said. A witness on the ship said Naidoo suffered...
The Guardian
| 9 months ago
Greenpeace executive director Kumi Naidoo gives a thumbs-up as he and other activists board the Arctic oil platform in the Pechora Sea. Photograph: Denis Sinyakov/AFP/Getty Images Greenpeace has signalled its determination to try to halt the Kremlin'...
The New York Times
| 9 months ago
A team of Greenpeace activists scaled the side of a Russian oil -drilling platform far out in the Arctic Ocean on Friday and suspended themselves on ropes while unfurling a banner that said Save the Arctic, as workers above sprayed cold water on them.
The Courier-Mail
| 9 months ago
Arctic oil platform owned by Russian group Gazprom to draw attention to the dangers of drilling in one of the world's last pristine reserves. Two Gazprom helicopters hovered over the group and periodically sprayed them with pressurised streams of ice...
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 9 months ago
A Canadian is among the six Greenpeace activists who scaled a floating Russian oil rig early Friday to protest against drilling in the Arctic and were clinging to the structure's side as employees sprayed them with water. The activists climbed the...
Sky News
| 9 months ago
The ice resistant platform is the first of its kind in the world. Workers on board are preparing to become the first to commercially drill in the polar region early next year. Environmentalists approached the Prirazlomnaya platform at 4am on Friday (...
United Press International
| 9 months ago
Two helicopters from the Russian coast guard arrived at the Prirazlomnoye oil rig in arctic waters in response to a Greenpeace occupation, the group said. Greenpeace announced Friday that Executive Director of Greenpeace International Kumi Naidoo...
