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Greenpeace activists arrested on Russian oil rig
2013-09-20 23:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Greenpeace said armed Russian officers stormed its ship, which is protesting over oil exploration in the Arctic, the officers detained all its crew in a locked room. According to the environmental organisation, men armed with machine guns, had boarded the ship by lowering themselves on ropes from a helicopter. The group said it believed its Dutch-flagged ship was in international waters when the raid began.
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Greenpeace activists could be charged with terrorism after ship stormed
2013-09-20 19:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Jumping from helicopters and slithering down ropes, more than a dozen armed Russian coastguard workers boarded a Greenpeace ship and took custody of the activists on board, to stop them from disrupting the work of a controversial oil rig. After a scuffle between the activists and the Russian security forces, the 29 activists, including six British nationals, are apparently being held on board at gunpoint, while the ship is forcibly towed to the Arctic port of Murmansk. The Russian coastguard,...
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Russian military raids Greenpeace ship, takes activists hostage
2013-09-20 19:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Armed Russian military have stormed a Greenpeace ship protesting against oil exploitation in remote Arctic waters. According to the last communications from the Arctic Sunrise before all contact was cut at around 4.30pm BST, the Russians dropped guards on to the deck of the vessel by rope from a helicopter, rounded up the Greenpeace crew and broke into the wheel house and communications rooms. Tweets from three people who locked themselves into a secure area on the ship said: "This is pretty...
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Activists arrested during Russian oil protest
2013-09-18 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Greenpeace said on Wednesday two of its activists have been arrested after scaling the Prirazlomnaya oil platform in Arctic waters in a fresh protest over the potential threat to the environment from operations slated to start by the end of the year. Production at the Gazprom-owned rig, Russia's first such project in the Barents Sea, was delayed last year after similar action. Gazprom put the delay down to technical reasons. A Russian coastguard officer, right, points a gun at a Greenpeace...
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Boulder County activists concerned about flooded oil, gas wells
2013-09-15 20:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Denver Post: Inundated along with roads, bridges, houses and farms are thousands of oil and gas wells and associated condensate tanks and ponds in northeast Boulder County and southwest Weld County. Anti-fracking activists say the industry needs to account for what types of chemicals may be contaminating soil and groundwater in the area around these wells. The concentration of oil and gas wells in flood-prone areas speaks to one more risk of what they see as a dangerous industry. Regulators say they...
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