Posts Tagged ‘Arctic Ocean’
Rallying To Remember A Historic Oil Spill
From Climate Progress: Activists and representatives from Alaska Wilderness League, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth and World Wildlife Fund held a rally outside of the White House on the 26th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.
Read MoreAdd Your Voice: Tell The Administration It Is Too Risky To Drill In Our Arctic Waters
In January 2015, the Department of the Interior (DOI) released a draft of its Outer Continental Shelf five-year plan; this plan will guide oil and gas development in areas including the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean from 2017-2022. Unfortunately, in this plan DOI included three new lease sales in Alaska, including two…
Read MoreIt’s Time To End Shell’s Arctic Adventure
“In 2005, Royal Dutch Shell, then the fourth-largest company on Earth, bought a drill rig that was both tall, rising almost 250 feet above the waterline, and unusually round… It could go (in theory) where few other rigs could go, helping Shell find oil that (in theory) few other oil companies could find.” Even as…
Read MoreProjecting Positivity: “Save the Arctic” Goes Up In Lights
“Save the Artic” shone brightly on the walls outside of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Anchorage, where the League joined Greenpeace, Sierra Club and others to demand protection for the Arctic Ocean. Passionate Alaskans rallied below; they had come from across Alaska and beyond to attend a public hearing and express their opposition of Chukchi…
Read MoreLet’s Finish What We Started
Have you seen our new video? We worked with Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark Fiore to raise awareness about Shell’s abysmal past performance and to rally the country to stop Shell before it can do more damage in “Deadliest Crude: Risking It All for Black Gold and Green Profits.”
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