Greenpeace launches whistleblowing website for Arctic drilling
Environmental group Greenpeace launched a website on Wednesday where employees and those working with companies drilling in the Arctic, can report concerns.
The website, arctictruth.org, was launched “to encourage employees and subcontractors of oil companies involved in Arctic drilling to come forward and help expose the incredible risks corporations are taking as they look to plunder the resources of this pristine region,” Greenpeace said in a press release.
The environmental group has long been opposed to Arctic drilling.
“The human, environmental and economic impacts of an accident in the polar north would be catastrophic and we hope this new website will reveal the truth about the gamble oil companies like Shell are willing to take,” said Ben Ayliffe, head of Arctic oil at Greenpeace International, in a press release.
Through no drilling is currently underway in the Canadian Arctic, a number of companies have been active in Arctic Alaska.