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Seattle, Bellingham, Everett. Protests against Arctic drilling began in Seattle in 2015 in response to the news that the Port of Seattle authority made an agreement with Royal Dutch Shell to berth offshore drillships and semi-submersibles at the Port's Terminal 5 (T5) during the off-season of oil exploration in Alaskan waters of the Arctic.
On 18 September 2013, Greenpeace activists attempted to scale the Prirazlomnaya drilling platform, as part of a protest against Arctic oil production. [citation needed]The following day, on 19 September 2013, Russian authorities seized the Greenpeace ship the Arctic Sunrise in international waters in the Russian Exclusive Economic Zone, arresting the crew at gunpoint, towing the ship to ...
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of environmental activists.Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity" [3] and focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as climate change, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, anti-war [4] and anti ...
Most are owned locally, under contract to buy BP fuel. [62] The Deepwater Horizon oil spill inspired new protests against all off-shore oil drilling, including the Greenpeace protest where activists painted "No Arctic Drilling" with spilled BP oil on the side of a ship in the Gulf en route to drill in the Arctic.
Transocean Ltd. is an American drilling company. [2] It is the world's largest offshore drilling contractor based on revenue and is based in Vernier, Switzerland . The company has offices in 20 countries, including Canada, the United States, Norway, United Kingdom, India, Brazil, Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
Discoverer Enterprise is a fifth generation deepwater double hulled dynamically positioned drillship (ASTANO FPSO design) owned and operated by Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling Inc., capable of operating in moderate environments and water depths up to 3,049 m (10,000 ft) using an 18.75 in (47.6 cm), 15,000 psi blowout preventer (BOP), and a 21 in (53 cm) outside diameter (OD) marine ...
June 1 – Oil began washing up on the beaches of Gulf Islands National Seashore. [88] June 4 – Tar balls arrive on beaches in Pensacola, Florida. [89] June 5 – Obama makes third trip to Louisiana since the disaster began, visits Grand Isle, Louisiana for the second time in two weeks.
Save the Arctic is a Greenpeace campaign to protect the Arctic, principally by preventing oil drilling and unsustainable industrial fishing in the area completely, surrounded by an Arctic- Environmental economics -Zone. [1] The campaign, begun in 2012, calls for a sanctuary in the uninhabited high seas area around the North Pole, similar to the ...