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Greenpeace activists protesting Obama and Arctic drilling arrested at Jerusalem bridge
Police arrested eight Greenpeace activists Thursday after members of the group chained themselves to a bridge in Jerusalem demanding US President Barack Obama halt exploratory drilling in the Arctic, an official said. “We have taken in eight activists for questioning, but there are still others at the site,” police spokesman…
Greenpeace protesters arrested outside Argentina nuclear plant
Some 40 Greenpeace activists were arrested inside an atomic power plant in Argentina on Monday at a protest on the second anniversary of the earthquake and nuclear disaster in Japan, the group said. The protesters “were beaten and detained after entering the Embalse nuclear facility in Cordoba” some 700 kilometers…
Greenpeace members scale Russian Arctic rig in second raid attempt
Greenpeace activists in an inflatable speedboat said Monday they had attached themselves to the anchor of a Russian ship taking workers to the country’s first Arctic oil production base. The second raid against the Gazprom rig in three days comes as Russia takes the lead from other Arctic powers in…
Greenpeace activists raid Russian oil tanker
Greenpeace activists on Friday raided an Arctic oil rig owned by Russian group Gazprom that next year will controversially pioneercommercial drilling in one of the world’s last pristine reserves. Russia’s largest energy group doused the six-member team from helicopters with icy streams of water as they hung down on thick blue ropes from the side of…
Greenpeace activists sneak into French nuclear plant
Greenpeace activists managed to sneak into a French nuclear power plant on Monday, police have confirmed. In a statement Greenpeace said some members had entered the nuclear site at Nogent-sur-Seine, 95 kilometres (60 miles) southeast of Paris, to “spread the message that there is no such thing as safe nuclear…
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