The message is clear: Norway, it’s time to choose people over oil. 35 activists from 25 countries around the world are in the Barents Sea to demand an end to Arctic drilling.
Oil Exploration Blocked In Watershed By Supreme Court Of Canada
Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in favour of the Inuit hamlet of Clyde River in a landmark ruling that will have far-reaching and lasting impacts across Canada.
Actress Joins Climate Change Survivor In Protest Against Arctic Exploitation
11 peaceful activists from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise have taken to the water in inflatable boats with handheld banners to oppose the Statoil Songa Enabler oil rig.
Obama Administration Puts A Freeze On Arctic Drilling
The Obama administration announced the cancellation of all remaining oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic Ocean through 2017. Under the 2012-2017 offshore drilling program, the administration was prepared to offer approximately 55 million acres and 65 million acres in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, respectively, to private companies for oil and gas development.
U.S. Gives Shell Final Nod To Drill For Oil In Arctic
The Obama administration granted Royal Dutch Shell final clearance on Monday to resume drilling for oil and gas in the environmentally fragile Arctic Ocean for the first time since 2012, a move green groups vowed to fight.
Shell’s Damaged Arctic Drilling Support Ship Heads To Oregon
Royal Dutch Shell PLC said on Monday an icebreaker crucial to planned Arctic oil drilling will be sent to Portland, Oregon to repair a gash in its hull, but the issue is not expected to delay the beginning of drilling off Alaska later in July.
Shell’s Arctic Icebreaker Damaged In Alaska
Shell’s drive to resume Arctic drilling this summer has hit another speed bump, with the discovery of a hole in the hull of an ice management vessel meant to safeguard the company’s operations in the Chukchi Sea.
Video: Shell Arctic Drilling Rig Departs Seattle Surrounded By Protesters
A Royal Dutch Shell PLC drilling rig that will search for oil in the Arctic left its temporary base in Seattle on Monday for the trip north to Alaska as dozens of activists in kayaks tried to stop it, authorities said.
Arctic Drilling Protesters Dangle From Shell Ship In Washington State
Two activists protesting plans by Royal Dutch Shell to resume drilling for oil in the Arctic dangled for several hours on Friday from the anchor of one of the company’s vessels in Washington state before coming down voluntarily, the Coast Guard said.