For over six months, huge numbers of us have been pressuring Shell to stay out of the Arctic.
Well this morning, company bosses announced they were scrapping their oil drilling program for this year.
photo from Los Angeles Times
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Jun 28, 2012 by keepalaskawild
The Inupiat people have relied on the bounty of the Arctic Ocean for thousands of years. The ocean is their garden. Today, they continue to live in harmony with polar bears, bowhead and beluga whales, seals, sea birds and walrus. But Shell‘s plans to drill for oil in the pristine Arctic Ocean threaten their way of life.
On Thursday evening, July 12, people across the country and across America‘s Arctic will gather in solidarity at Stand with the Arctic Vigils. Will you join us?
We’ve teamed up with Radiohead and actor Jude Law to make what could be the best Greenpeace video ever.
The message in the video is clear: We have to act now if we hope to save the Arctic and the polar bears that call it home. Take a minute to watch it yourself and then spread the message by sharing it with your friends and family.
(click here to watch the video)
Oil companies are using melting sea ice to drill for more of the oil that is causing global warming in the first place. In fact, Shell’s Arctic fleet will be arriving any day now to begin exploratory drilling off the coast of Alaska this summer. That’s just madness. It’s time for us to take back sanity from those who have lost the plot.
We have to spread the word about saving the Arctic before it’s too late. This video can help, because when people find out about this scandal they act.
Click here to watch and then share it with your friends and family.
Already seen the video? Great! Click here to share it directly on Facebook to make sure others do too.
Save the Arctic,
Dan Howells Greenpeace Deputy Campaigns Director
Jun 8, 2012 by yeslabmedia
The real story behind a private send-off for Shell’s arctic rigs (Kulluk and Noble Discoverer) at the Seattle Space Needle.
The fun continues at http://www.arcticready.com
Learn more at:
http://www.yeslab.org/shellfail
http://www.greenpeace.org/savethearctic
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It’s getting harder for a polar bear mother and her cubs to survive in the Arctic.
Each day she has to travel farther and farther for food as the sea ice she relies on to hunt rapidly disappears because of global warming. Each day brings her hungry cubs closer to starvation. And now she has to deal with the prospect of an oil spill.
Oil giant Shell is heading her way right now to drill the very first wells in the pristine waters off the coast of Alaska this summer. If the company finds what it is looking for the Arctic oil rush will be on — and a spill won’t be far behind. This polar bear mother and her cubs won’t stand a chance.
Donate now and help us raise $35,000 by midnight March 30th to save this polar bear mother and her cubs from Arctic drilling. We need just 50 donors from WA to make this happen.
Greenpeace plans to mobilize millions of people around the world in 2012 to save the Arctic by using creative campaigning. It’s all hands on deck. We know that it’s the only way to get the attention of policy makers and put a stop Arctic drilling.
Our goal is to permanently ban oil drilling and industrial fishing in the Arctic and to establish the area around the North Pole as a ‘global commons.’ It may seem ambitious, but we’ve done it before. In 1991, a Greenpeace campaign much like this one helped establish Antarctica as a world park and off limits to commercial extraction.
We can do it, but not without your support.
This polar bear mother needs our help now. Please make an urgent donation by our midnight March 30th deadline to help save her cubs from starvation and protect our planet. Just 50 gifts from WA will ensure that we reach our goal to raise $35,000 by Saturday.
Last year alone Shell admitted to causing 207 ‘significant’ spills worldwide in places like Nigeria and Britain’s North Sea. Any one of those would be an even greater disaster in the harsh waters of the Arctic and for the polar bear mother trying to feed her cubs.
Carmen, this is your chance to be part of history. This drilling is happening in our backyard and to stop it we are going to need massive support in this country. Greenpeace doesn’t take a dime from corporations or governments. All we care about is doing what is necessary to save the Arctic. But our plans and the polar bears that call the Arctic home all depend on your support.
Please make a donation today to help save this polar bear mother and her cubs and ensure that we reach our goal to raise $35,000 by March 30th.
For the Arctic,
Dan Howells
Greenpeace USA Deputy Campaign Director
P.S. We need just 50 supporters from WA to reach our goal. Please make your donation to save polar bears by midnight March 30th on our secure website or by calling 1-800-722-6995. Thank you!
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