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Greenpeace Sues Norway Over Arctic Exploration

November 16, 2017 Tone Sutterud and Elisabeth Ulven, theguardian.com Resist! Arctic, Environment, Greenpeace, Lawsuit, Norway

By Tone Sutterud and Elisabeth Ulven for The Guardian - The Norwegian government is being sued by climate activists over a decision to open up areas of the Arctic Ocean for oil exploration, a move they say endangers the lives of existing and future generations. The plaintiffs, led by environmental organisations Greenpeace and Youth and Nature, will on Tuesday claim that the Norwegian government has violated a constitutional environmental law which guarantees citizens’ rights to a healthy environment. The law, known as Section 112, states: “Everyone has the right to an environment that safeguards their health and to nature where production ability and diversity are preserved. Natural resources must be managed from a long-term and versatile consideration which also upholds this right for future generations.” “We have for years tried to stop the expansion of Norway’s oil extraction, from both local and global considerations,” said Truls Gulowsen, head of Greenpeace Norway. “As far as granting concessions for the Arctic is concerned, not only have our objections been ignored and overrun, but the state has also paid no heed to the guidelines from their own appointed advisers, such as the polar institute and the environment agency, who both recommended that the majority of concessions in this area be turned down.” In fighting the case, Greenpeace is relying on the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which states that to meet the goals set out in the 2015 Paris accord, oil production must be wound down, not escalated.

Federal Court Dismisses Resolute SLAPP Suit Against Greenpeace

October 19, 2017 Staff, www.greenpeace.org Educate! Courts, Environment, Freedom of Speech, Greenpeace

By Staff of Greenpeace - SAN FRANCISCO, October 16, 2017 — Today, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed all claims in the controversial case that major logging company Resolute Forest Products [2] filed against Greenpeace Inc., Greenpeace Fund, and Greenpeace International, Stand.earth and individual defendants, including claims under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) act. The court’s decision sends a clear message to corporations that attacks on core democratic values like freedom of speech and legitimate advocacy on issues of public interest will not be tolerated. District Judge Jon S. Tigar wrote in his order dismissing the case that “the defendants’ speech constituted the expression of opinion, or different viewpoints that [are] a vital part of our democracy.” Noting that “Greenpeace’s publications at issue rely on scientific research or fact”, the judge added that “[t]he academy, and not the courthouse, is the appropriate place to resolve scientific disagreements of this kind.” Resolute will be allowed to amend its filing as a formality, but Greenpeace is confident that any such attempt will meet a similar fate. Greenpeace USA General Counsel Tom Wetterer said in response to the decision:

Trump Sues Greenpeace Over Dakota Access In Racketeering Case

August 23, 2017 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Resist! Dakota Access Pipeline, Greenpeace, Lawsuit

By Steve Horn for Desmog Blog - Energy Transfer Partners, owner of the Dakota Access pipeline, has filed a $300 million Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) lawsuit against Greenpeace and other environmental groups for their activism against the long-contested North Dakota-to-Illinois project. In its 187-page complaint, Energy Transfer alleges that “putative not-for-profits and rogue eco-terrorist groups who employ patterns of criminal activity and campaigns of misinformation to target legitimate companies and industries with fabricated environmental claims and other purported misconduct” caused the company to lose “billions of dollars.” In the case, Energy Transfer is represented by lawyers from the firm Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, one of the namesakes of which is Marc Kasowitz. Kasowitz is a member of the legal team representing President Donald Trump in the ongoing congressional and special counsel investigation of his 2016 presidential campaign's alleged ties and potential collusion with Russian state actors. The press release announcing the filing of the lawsuit details that Kasowitz attorney Michael J. Bowe is leading what the firm describes as an ongoing probe into the environmental groups' “campaign and practices.”

Greenpeace Drops ‘Resist’ Banner Within View Of White House

January 27, 2017 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Greenpeace, Protest Demonstrations, Protests, Washington DC, White House

By John Zangas for DC Media Group - Washington, DC—The first sight President Donald Trump and top aides may have seen Wednesday morning was a giant banner waving in the sky reading, “RESIST.” The “RESIST” message was courtesy of seven Greenpeace activists, who pulled off a spectacular banner drop from the top of a 270-foot crane in downtown Washington, DC. They scaled the crane in early pre-dawn hours and unfurled their bright yellow, orange and black-lettered banner spelling “RESIST” during morning rush hour. Police closed surrounding streets below while hundreds gazed up at the banner billowing in the breeze. The 70 x 35′ banner contained an orange rising sun and could easily be seen as far as half a mile away.

Exiting Greenpeace

December 24, 2015 Kumi Naidoo, www.greenpeace.org Educate! Greenpeace

By Kumi Naidoo for Green Peace - As I look out my window here in Amsterdam, winter is nearly here, and with it comes the retreat of another year, and the passing of what has been to make way for the spring and the new. As the days get shorter and the weather colder, I'm thinking ahead to days of renewal and new beginnings. As many of you know, I'm soon moving on from my post as Executive Director of Greenpeace International. I don't think of it as leaving Greenpeace, however. I think of it as exchanging my lofty title for a far more powerful one: that of a Greenpeace Volunteer. It's been an amazing journey with all of you, and I've loved every minute of challenge, every day of struggle, every week of progress...

Not Guilty: Greenpeace Activists Used Climate Change As Legal Defence

July 18, 2015 John Vidal, www.theguardian.com Resist! Climate Change, Greenpeace, Law

By John Vidal in The Guardian - Six Greenpeace climate change activists have been cleared of causing £30,000 of criminal damage at a coal-fired power station in a verdict that is expected to embarrass the government and lead to more direct action protests against energy companies. The jury of nine men and three women at Maidstone crown court cleared the six by a majority verdict. Five of the protesters had scaled a 200-metre chimney at Kingsnorth power station, Hoo, Kent, in October last year. The activists admitted trying to shut down the station by occupying the smokestack and painting the word "Gordon" down the chimney, but argued that they were legally justified because they were trying to prevent climate change causing greater damage to property around the world.

Greenpeace Puts Boats & Bodies Between Shell & Arctic

June 18, 2015 Nadia Prupis, www.commondreams.org Resist! Arctic, Greenpeace, Oil & Gas, shell

By Nadia Prupis in Common Dreams - By boat, by raft, or by swimming through frigid northern waters, the people will not back down against drilling in the Arctic. That was the message Wednesday morning as about 30 environmental campaigners on Greenpeace vessels—including Musqueam First Nation activist Audrey Siegl, featured in a video on Tuesday preparing for the action—chased down oil giant Shell's Arctic drilling rig, the Polar Pioneer, as it moved past Vancouver Island toward its final destination in Alaskan waters. Under the banner of People vs. Oil, several protesters jumped from a raft into the choppy ocean waves to block the path of the Polar Pioneer. Shell plans to drill for oil in the Arctic's Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, which are home to numerous Indigenous communities and marine species. As of Wednesday morning, the Polar Pioneer had barreled down on the swimmers, forcing them to move out of the way, but two smaller boats of activists are still facing off with the vessel.

Shell Has Not Learned From Its Mistakes

April 27, 2015 Haley Rabic, www.greenpeaceblogs.org Educate! Environment, Greenpeace, Oil & Gas, shell

Shell’s fleet entered the Arctic for exploratory drilling in the summer of 2012 with two rigs, the Kulluk and Noble Discoverer, both owned by Noble Drilling. Challenges started early for the Noble Discoverer — in early July the rig might have ran aground during a storm, but the Coast Guard cleared the ship to move on. The voyage was halted for months as Shell waited for its spill response equipment dome that would never come — during a calm water sea-trial in the Puget Sound the containment dome shot to the surface, sank 120 feet and was“crushed like a beer can.” Instead of stopping, Shell persisted and changed its plans from drilling for oil to only sinking a partial well.

Why I Climbed Shell’s 100 Meter High Oil Rig

April 9, 2015 Greenpeace Staff, www.greenpeaceblogs.org Resist! Environment, Greenpeace, Oil & Gas, shell

This isn’t just a protest against Shell drilling in the Arctic. I didn’t make the decision to do this ambitious act in a zen-style instant of clarity. For me, taking action like this comes from a deep frustration with something that is bigger than me. And after years of feeling deeply disheartened and completely powerless, I finally found the conviction to step up. Becoming an adult in the tweens of the 21st century, I was a witness to the abundance of reports that spelled out the gravity of climate change. When I started studying environmental science in 2012, I began to comprehend the magnitude and complexity with which climate change will affect our natural world and survival.

Greenpeace Still On Oil Rig, Seattle Kayactivists Plan To Meet Shell

April 9, 2015 Sydney Brownstone, www.thestranger.com Resist! Environment, Greenpeace, Oil & Gas

Guess we now know why many of those attractive activists ("attractivists," as coined byThe Stranger's Mike Force) have backgrounds in extreme sports. Greenpeace reports that this morning, six activists from the Esperanza—the Greenpeace vessel tracking a Shell oil drilling platform called the Polar Pioneer as it travels across the Pacific Ocean—managed to scale the rig and affix themselves to the underside of the main deck. The six are now tweeting from the rig, located 750 miles northwest of Hawaii. In 2012, Shell won an injunction that kept Greenpeace activists away from its rigs. This drilling season, Seattle-based activists are also planning to greet the rigs with a flotilla of kayaks in Elliott Bay. The Polar Pioneer is due to arrive in Port Angeles on April 12, according to Marinetraffic.com, and activists expect it to pull into Seattle a few days later.

Spanish Ram Greenpeace Boat Then Seize It

November 19, 2014 Resist! Arctic drilling, Energy, Environment, Greenpeace, Off-shore drilling, Oil, Spain

Spanish navy boats protecting an oil drilling ship rammed Greenpeace boats during a protest, leaving one activist with a broken leg and another with minor cuts. Dramatic footage filmed off the Canary Islands of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura on Saturday shows the moment when a navy rhib – a fast rigid hull inflatable boat – appeared to deliberately collide with a Greenpeace rhib which was approaching the oil ship Rowan Renaissance. Matilda Brunetti, a 23 year-old Italian, can be heard screaming in pain in the video as her leg was broken and she was thrown into the water. According to a colleague, she then received cuts to her legs from a propeller, before she was taken by the Spanish navy to a hospital in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, where she is now recovering. Spain has seized and detained the Greenpeace boat, Arctic Sunrise, that they rammed earlier this week. Neither the captain or crew are being detained. Spain was protecting oil drilling from a non-violent direct action by Greenpeace against the oil ship Rowan Renaissance, owned by the company Repsol, which has been approved by Spain to drill for oil in the Fuerteventura and Lanzarote islands. The Spanish government is investigating the captain of the ship for an "infringement against marine traffic rules."

Leaked Documents Reveal Tar Sands’ Dirty Tricks

November 19, 2014 Greenpeace, www.greenpeace.org Educate! Energy, Environment, Greenpeace

Today, Greenpeace released leaked documents detailing TransCanada’s secret public relations and “grassroots advocacy” strategy for its Energy East tar sands pipeline proposal. Greenpeace says the documents show the embattled pipeline company is planning to adopt the tactics employed by the U.S. oil industry to attack environmental advocates in Canada. The strategy was prepared for TransCanada by Edelman, the largest public relations firm in the world. "TransCanada is a multibillion-dollar corporation with the backing of the Canadian government, yet with all that in its favor, they still need Daniel Edelman’s campaign of distraction, disruption, and dirty tricks to go forward with this pipeline.” Greenpeace USA Research Director Mark Floegel said.

Video: Activist Hospitalised After Boats Rammed During Peaceful Protest

November 17, 2014 Greenpeace, www.greenpeace.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Greenpeace, Protest, Spain

At stake are two of the Canary Islands (Fuerteventura and Lanzarote), Spanish islands off the coast of Morocco. A company called Repsol has been given a permit to drill there, despite the risks to the ecology and tourist economy. Greenpeace Spain sided with island locals in opposing this drilling, but their warnings about safety and legal issues have so far been ignored by the Spanish government. This morning, activists from the Arctic Sunrise went on small boats to protest the drilling vessel. The Spanish authorities reacted violently as you can see in the video below - deliberately ramming the boats and putting the lives of peaceful activists at risk. The 23 year old Italian who was knocked overboard and had her leg broken, has been taken to a hospital on shore by a navy helicopter, and is in good condition. Another activist was treated on board the Arctic Sunrise for minor cuts.

Felony Trial For Greenpeace Protesters In Cincinnati Delayed

October 30, 2014 Barrett J. Brunsman, www.bizjournals.com Resist! Corporatism, Environment, Greenpeace, Law

The trial of Greenpeace activists who face charges of burglary and vandalism related to a protest at the Cincinnati headquarters of Procter & Gamble Co. has been delayed until next year. Eight of the nine activists were expected to stand trial Oct. 27 in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, but the start of the jury trial has been rescheduled for Jan. 20. One of the activists, Tyler Wilkerson, 27, died Oct. 6 of an undisclosed cause. An Oct. 16 filing asked that the charges be dropped against Wilkerson, a former Marine who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan and was working in California as an organic farmer. "There is no connection between the new trial date and Tyler's death," Greenpeace spokeswoman Kat Clark said today.

Victory: Lego Announces It Will Not Renew Contract With Shell

October 10, 2014 Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, www.aboutus.lego.com Resist! Children, Energy, Environment, Greenpeace

The Greenpeace campaign uses the LEGO brand to target Shell. As we have stated before, we firmly believe Greenpeace ought to have a direct conversation with Shell.The LEGO brand, and everyone who enjoys creative play, should never have become part of Greenpeace’s dispute with Shell. Our stakeholders have high expectations to the way we operate. So do we. We do not agree with the tactics used by Greenpeace that may have created misunderstandings among our stakeholders about the way we operate; and we want to ensure that our attention is not diverted from our commitment to delivering creative and inspiring play experiences. The long-term co-promotion contract we entered with Shell in 2011 delivers on the objective of bringing LEGO bricks into the hands of many children, and we will honour it – as we would with any contract we enter.

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