Lego cuts ties with Shell after Greenpeace campaign
Danish toy-maker Lego announced on Wednesday it was cutting ties with Royal Dutch Shell after an extended campaign by the
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Court rules 2008 Chukchi Sea lease sale fell short on considering environmental risks
A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that the U.S. Department of Interior failed to properly consider environmental risks of
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Canada’s PM hails start of Arctic highway
Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper was in the Arctic community of Inuvik in Canada’s Northwest Territories (N.W.T.) on Wednesday to
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Greenpeace Swede says Russia should apologise
After two months in prison in Russia, Greenpeace-activist Dima Litvinov has returned to Sweden. “It’s a fantastic feeling to be
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Statoil awarded exploration licence off Greenland
I missed this over the holidays, but Norway’s Statoil, along with partners ConocoPhillips and Nunaoil, has been awarded an exploration
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Greenpeace activists leave Russia after Putin’s amnesty
Most of the 30 people arrested for a Greenpeace protest against Arctic oil drilling left Russia on Friday under an
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Laser technology used to map polar bear den habitat
What is the best way to find sites that could be used for polar bear dens, the cozy snow caves
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ANALYSIS: Race to claim High Arctic’s oil resources may be a fool’s mission
When asked earlier this week about extending Canada’s territorial claims in the Arctic, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird was clear
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Finnish Greenpeace activist second in Guardian poll
Finnish Greenpeace activist Sini Saarela has finished second in the Guardian newspaper’s online ‘Person of the Year’ poll. US whistleblower
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Shell plans Arctic Alaska comeback
Royal Dutch Shell is back, baby! Well, maybe. The Netherlands-based oil giant has long said it would not return to
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Canada’s NWT: Company releases list of fracking chemicals
ConocoPhillips has released a report detailing the chemicals it plans to use when it drills horizontal wells in the Sahtu
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Release of Interior’s Arctic standards for offshore oil development delayed
Arctic-specific standards to guide offshore oil operations — rules crafted in response to Shell’s trouble-plagued 2012 drilling season — will
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Drilling waste thawing and leaching into lakes in Canada’s Far North
They are called “sumps”. They are basically huge pits dug into the permafrost near the sites of exploratory oil and
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Ice-Blog: Philippines, Warsaw, Arctic – join the dots
I have very mixed feelings as the UN climate conference gets underway in Warsaw just as the Philippines are devastated
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What’s next after piracy charge for Finnish Greenpeace activist
Markku Kivinen, head of Helsinki University’s specialist Russian and east European Aleksanteri Institute, has cautioned Finnish politicians to use
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