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Greenpeace activists board arctic oil drilling rig
2014-05-27 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Greenpeace activists boarded an oil rig in the Norwegian Arctic on Tuesday to try to stop exploration plans in the far north. Greenpeace, which regularly calls Statoil an 'Arctic aggressor', said plans to drill in the Hoop area of the Barents Sea threaten Bear Island, an uninhabited wildlife sanctuary which is home to rare species and occasionally to polar bears. Oil firms are drilling further north in Norway than ever as the Arctic ice retreats and recent regulation changes let firms work in areas...
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