A Russian tanker called the Mikhail Ulyanov, sailed into
the Dutch port of Rotterdam, allegedly attempting to deliver the first
ever shipment of oil drilled from the Arctic seafloor. The environmental
campaign group Greenpeace was there to show its opposition to Arctic
drilling, and to try and prevent the tanker from docking. Their efforts
were thwarted however when around 30 Greenpeace activists were arrested
by Dutch police, including at least one campaigner who was also a member
of the so-called "Arctic 30". The Arctic 30 group was detained by
Russian authorities in October 2013 following another protest in which a
number of Greenpeace campaigners tried to board an oil platform
belonging to the Russian energy company Gazprom.
0 comments:
Post a Comment