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2/9/2010
Four Greenpeace activists who clung to an
oil rig off western Greenland using rock-climbing gear have been arrested after an
Arctic storm forced them to abandon their protest.
The four men -- from the US, Finland, Poland and Germany -- ...
2/9/2010
Four Greenpeace activists who halted drilling by a British-owned
oil exploration rig off Greenland have been arrested after they abandoned their occupation because of severe weather.
Greenlandic police arrested the four after high winds ...
2/9/2010
Four Greenpeace activists who had clung to an
oil rig off western Greenland with rock-climbing gear were arrested Thursday after an
Arctic storm forced them to abandon their environmental protest.
Police spokesman Morten Nielsen said the ...
31/8/2010
Greenpeace claims to have shut down offshore drilling by a British
oil company at a controversial site in the
Arctic after four climbers began an occupation of the rig just after dawn.
The environment campaigners said the four protesters ...
29/8/2010
At a celebration of BP's centennial last October, CEO Tony Hayward boasted to guests that the
oil company "lives on the frontiers of the energy industry."
But this week, in the first major sign that the Gulf of Mexico
oil spill may have ...
25/8/2010
BP has scrapped plans to drill in the
Arctic, where a new
oil rush is expected, amid fears such a move would be "political madness" after the Gulf
oil spill, Britain's Guardian daily said Thursday.
The energy giant said it was no longer ...
25/8/2010
BP has been forced to abandon hopes of drilling in the
Arctic, currently the centre of a new
oil rush due to its tarnished reputation following the Gulf of Mexico spill.
The company confirmed tonight that it was no longer trying to win ...
23/8/2010
A British
oil firm will tomorrow announce that it has struck
oil off Greenland, a find that could trigger a
rush to exploit
oil reserves in the pristine waters of the
Arctic.
Cairn Energy, the first company to win permission to drill for ...
17/8/2010
Earlier this month the federal government released a report on the fate of the 4.9 million barrels of
oil that had spilled into the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon explosion. Experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
27/7/2010
Today has been a momentous day for BP. The company announced the largest corporate loss in UK history and revealed the identity of a new CEO whose job it will be to turn the company around. As the details broke this morning, teams of Greenpeace ...
23/6/2010
On the morning of June 4, in the international waters south of Malta, the Greenpeace vessels Rainbow Warrior and
Arctic Sunrise deployed eight inflatable Zodiacs and skiffs into the azure surface of the Mediterranean. Protesters aboard donned ...
8/6/2010
A decade ago, U.S. government regulators warned that a major deepwater
oil spill could start with a fire on a drilling rig, prove hard to stop and cause extensive damage to fish eggs and wetlands because there were few good ways to capture
oil ...
8/5/2010
Cairn Energy is betting $400 million this year on striking
oil off Greenland, a campaign that will be closely watched by producers such as Exxon Mobil and Chevron that hold rights off the island.
The potential rewards may justify the ...
27/4/2010
Arctic nations should sign a comprehensive agreement to protect the environmentally sensitive region as sea ice melts and the
Arctic basin is opened up to shipping,
oil and gas drilling, and fishing, according to the conservation group WWF. With ...
8/10/2009
AS ANY nine-year-old knows, the Mirror of Erised--featured in the Harry Potter books--is a magical looking-glass that shows not your own countenance, but what is close to your heart. To judge by recent statements from the interested parties, ...
28/3/2009
Russia has released plans to create a dedicated military force to patrol the
Arctic, where it is laying claim to billions of tonnes of hydrocarbons.
Countries in the northern hemisphere are vying for control of the polar region, which is ...
23/3/2009
As a nuclear-powered icebreaker crunched through 10 feet of August ice at the North Pole, Russian sailors readied two deepwater submersibles for their two-and-a-half-mile descent. Dubbed Mir 1 and Mir 2 (mir meaning "world'), the subs were aptly ...
15/2/2009
Environmentalists cheered, but
oil industry groups expressed disappointment at this week’s decision by the Interior Department to abandon the Bush administration’s accelerated offshore leasing program.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar ...
12/2/2009
Russia will modernize its icebreaker fleet and station more researchers in the
Arctic as part of its push to stake its claim to the vast resources of the disputed polar region, a presidential envoy said Thursday.
Artur Chilingarov, a ...
10/2/2009
President Obama is shelving a plan announced in the final days of the Bush administration to open much of the U.S. coast to
oil drilling, including 130 million acres off California's coast from Mendocino to San Diego.
On Tuesday, ...
6/2/2009
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) voted unanimously to close off more than 150,000 square nautical miles of the
Arctic sea to commercial fishing. The decision, welcomed by an array of environmentalists and industry groups, is a ...
29/1/2009
NATO will need a military presence in the
Arctic as global warming melts frozen sea routes and major powers
rush to lay claim to lucrative energy reserves, the military bloc's chief said Thursday.
NATO commanders and lawmakers meeting in ...
19/1/2009
The White House last week issued a new policy directive to guide government decisions involving the
Arctic, a document that outlines an array of challenges the incoming administration will face as rising temperatures spark a surge in economic and ...
12/12/2008
Nearly 1,000 scientists and representatives of indigenous peoples from 16 countries have braved a major winter storm to share their findings and concerns about the rapidly warming
Arctic region at the International
Arctic Change conference in ...
24/11/2008
The European Union should lead international efforts to protect the
Arctic region from global warming and from the resulting increase in the exploitation by humans of its natural resources, officials in Brussels said on November 20. In a document ...