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This image made available by Greenpeace shows five activists attempting to climb the Prirazlomnaya, an oil platform operated by Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom. (Denis Sinyakov, Greenpeace/The Associated Press)

Putin says Greenpeace activists not pirates

The Associated Press
Posted: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 13:25
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Greenpeace activists apprehended after trying to scale an offshore oil platform aren’t

Finland Society Society (Finland)

Finnish consul headed for Greenpeace vessel

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 11:05
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Russian authorities are permitting a group of foreign consulate representatives aboard a Netherlands-registered Greenpeace ship being towed to Murmansk. One

Environment Environment (Russia) Russia

Greenpeace says Canadians among activists on ship boarded by Russians in Arctic

The Canadian Press
Posted: Thursday, September 19, 2013 at 16:35
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Two Canadian activists are among a group of 25 people who were being held at gunpoint aboard a Greenpeace

Waves crash over the mobile offshore drilling unit Kulluk where it sits aground on the southeast side of Sitkalidak Island, Alaska, Jan. 1, 2013. (US Coast Guard photo)

Business USA

Despite efforts, Alaska Kulluk grounding couldn’t be prevented

Suzanna Caldwell, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Thursday, May 30, 2013 at 08:57
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The Coast Guard captain who played a key role during attempts to control the ill-fated Kulluk conical drilling rig in

Shell Oil's Kulluk platform, in Seattle, May 25, 2012. (Courtesy Senator Begich's office, Alaska Dispatch)

Business USA

Contractor: Tow shackle between Shell’s Arctic drill rig, tug failed

Suzanna Caldwell, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 09:29
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The man who oversaw equipment connecting Shell Oil’s Arctic drill rig to her tugboat detailed his job execution for marine