August 25, 2012

Greenpeace storms Arctic oil platform




Greenpeace activists board Kremlin state-owned oil platform in Arctic in protest at rate of ice melting

Greenpeace has signalled its determination to try to halt the Kremlin's march into the Arctic with activists led by its executive director boarding an oil platform belonging to state-owned Gazprom.

It is the first time that the green group has taken "direct action" against the Russian drilling and comes amid alarming new evidence about the speed with which Arctic sea ice is melting.