Saturday, June 18, 2011

More insanity from warmists at Greenpeace: Speedboats and helicopters and freezing and diesel, oh my

Greenpeace ship departs Arctic as campaign shifts gear - DominicanToday.com
Greenland.– The International Executive Director of Greenpeace, Kumi Naidoo, has been arrested and is being flown to Greenland after breaching an exclusion zone and scaling a controversial Arctic oil rig 120km out to sea.

At 6.45am this morning an inflatable speedboat carrying Naidoo was launched from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza. The rig's operators Cairn Energy used powerful water cannon to try to prevent him climbing a 30 metre ladder up the outside of one of the rig's giant legs, but Naidoo braved the freezing jets and made it to the platform.

Soaking wet he demanded that Cairn immediately halt drilling operations and leave the Arctic.
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As the helicopter that was sent to collect Naidoo and his fellow activist, Ulvar Arnkvaern, departed the rig, Ben Stewart onboard the nearby Greenpeace ship Esperanza said: "After over a month of non-stop action to stop dangerous deep water drilling in the Arctic, which has seen 22 Greenpeace activists including Kumi arrested after braving freezing seas to protest against Cairn's reckless drilling, it is time to move the campaign up a gear and out of the Arctic."
Greenpeace Australia Pacific » Blog Archive » Why DOES the Esperanza have a diesel electric motor?
Once again the Esperanza is ‘fuelling’ debate about Greenpeace sustainability. It’s a question we’re often asked on open boat days: “why does the Esperanza run on diesel? Isn’t that hypocritical?”
Ask Airtel to switch off Diesel | Greenpeace India
Greenpeace activists are painting ‘Switch off Diesel’ across Airtel’s head-office building in Gurgaon.

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