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Russia-Greenpeace furor animated by Arctic oil pollution
2013-10-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate News: An environmental organization with a $350 million war chest, a giant protest vessel, 28 activists and a rubber raft have succeeded in drawing Russian President Vladimir V. Putin into a very public global dispute. Attention is now focused on the Greenpeace activistswho were arrested last month by Coast Guard agents for trying to hang a protest banner on an Arctic Ocean oil platformand whether they will languish in prison for up to 15 years each on dubious piracy charges. "They are obviously not...
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