Greenpeace: Burning lots of fossil fuel in the Arctic

Arctic Sunrise on Top of the World | Greenpeace New Zealand Weblog

A photograph taken by Nick yesterday shows Jason and our ‘super ice guy’ Eric setting up a time-lapse camera on the glacier itself. Shot from a helicopter, the two men look like tiny ants on a surreal, alien landscape, mottled with azure blue melt pools.

2004: Greenpeace Charged with Violating Alaska Environmental Laws

The environmental activist group Greenpeace faces civil and criminal penalties for allegedly disobeying an order to keep one of its ships, the Arctic Sunrise, at anchor after it sailed into Alaska waters without an oil-discharge prevention plan and a certificate of financial responsibility.

Ship Sped Away from Authorities
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Wilson described Arctic Sunrise as a "really well-designed vessel with an icebreaker hull that carries 128,000 gallons of fuel." The Greenpeace Web site says Arctic Sunrise was once a seal-hunting vessel the group had confronted in 1986 in Hobart, Tasmania to protest the French government's construction of an airstrip through a penguin habitat in the Antarctic.