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How did two of the biggest oil companies in the world team up to exploit one of the remaining pristine ecosystems on the planet?

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BREAKING NEWS: Just this week, Shell announced that it cannot drill in the Alaskan Arctic this year. But the fight isn't over. This announcement comes a week after a federal court ruled that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) — the federal agency that permits oil companies to drill offshore — intentionally downplayed the impact Arctic oil drilling would have on the fragile environment…

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28 Greenpeace activists, a freelance photographer and a freelance videographer have been charged with piracy and hooliganism in Russian Courts. Even though the Arctic 30 were granted bail, piracy and hooliganism charges are still in place. These charges carry with them maximum sentences of 15 and 7 years in a Russian prison.  The Arctic 30 were on the scene of a peaceful protest at an…

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Alan Byron
Alan Byron
  • Sep 28, 2013
  • 472 signatures

There are those who sit at home and tut tut about media reports of social injustice, corruption in high places or arrests under specious pretenses of violation of so called ownership of the land or seas, and do little. It is said that evil can only prosper when good men (and women) do nothing.…Read More

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Brad Dubs
Brad Dubs
  • Nov 18, 2013
  • 37 signatures

And all three happen to be Russian nationalists...

Russia bails three of the Arctic 30

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18 November 2013 Last updated at 15:28 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Yekaterina Zaspa was the Arctic Sunrise ship's doctor A court in St Petersburg has bailed three Russian nationals who were among 30 arrested during an Arctic protest. Yekaterina Zaspa served as medical crew on the Greenpeace ship, while…Read More
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Brad Dubs
Brad Dubs
  • Nov 14, 2013
  • 20 signatures

The Arctic 30 are charged with... hoolinganism?

City move for Greenpeace detainees

BBC News
12 November 2013 Last updated at 11:33 ET Thirty people detained in Russia following a Greenpeace protest have arrived in St Petersburg, the organisation has said. The 28 activists and two journalists - including six Britons - have been moved to the city from a jail in Murmansk. They have been charged with hooliganism over an Arctic oil…Read More
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