"Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise ship case After Greenpeace activists attempted to scale the Prirazlomnaya drilling platform on 18 September 2013, as part of a protest against Arctic oil production, Russian authorities seized the Greenpeace ship the ""Arctic Sunrise"" in international waters in the Russian Exclusive Economic Zone on 19 September 2013, arrested the crew at gunpoint, towed the ship to Murmansk, and detained the crew of 28 activists and two freelance journalists. The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal investigation, charging the activists initially with piracy and later with hooliganism. Since the ""Arctic Sunrise"" was flying the Dutch flag, the"
"to prevent oil spills. On September 18, the Greenpeace vessel ""MV Arctic Sunrise"" staged a protest and attempted to board Gazprom's Prirazlomnaya platform. In response, the Russian Coast Guard seized control of the ship, and arrested the activists. Phil Radford, executive director of Greenpeace USA, stated that the arrest of the Arctic 30 is the stiffest response that Greenpeace has encountered from a government since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in 1985 by the ""action"" branch of the French foreign intelligence services, the Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure (DGSE). Earlier in August 2012, Greenpeace had also staged similar"
"Pechora Sea coast is significant. According to Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund Gasprom is not prepared to deal adequately with a spill associated with oil production. As such, in September, 2013, Greenpeace staged a confrontation with the Russian Coast Guard in which Greenpeace activists approached and attempted to scale a Gasprom drilling platform Pechora Sea Pechora Sea (, or Pechorskoye More), is a sea at the northwest of Russia, the southeastern part of the Barents Sea. The western border of the sea is off Kolguyev Island, while the eastern border is the western coasts of Vaygach Island and the"
"the Pechora Sea off Russia, operated by the Russian company Gazprom; it began production in late 2013. Russia jailed 30 Greenpeace activists protesting the platform and seized their ship. The largest Arctic platform in the Arctic is Goliat in the Barents Sea off Norway, co-owned by Eni Norge AS and Statoil; it began production in 2015. Royal Dutch Shell had $7 billion project to extract oil from the Chukchi Sea off Alaska, ""Polar Pioneer"", but abandoned the project in 2015 after determining that it was ""not sufficient to warrant further exploration"". Contributing to these decision was the record-low price of"
"of change. Importantly, Naidoo saw the intricate connections between environmental justice, women's and human rights as being interconnected, occasionally bringing him much criticism from Western-born environmentalists who tended and tend to see environmentalism as a discrete cause. Naidoo has been actively involved in acts of peaceful civil-disobedience in the Arctic Ocean region against Shell and Gazprom's plan to drill in the Arctic's melting ice. In August 2012, Naidoo along with a group of Greenpeace volunteers occupied Gazprom's Prirazlomnaya oil platform in the Pechora Sea for 15 hours, for the second time in the Arctic. A year before, in June 2011,"
"government since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in 1985."" The charges of piracy were dropped in October 2013. In November 2013, twenty-seven of the campaigners were released on bail. Greenpeace has not staged a protest at Prirazlomnaya oil platform since, instead choosing to protest against Western drilling operations due to those countries being considerably more tolerant of their activities. In May 2014, the first shipment of Arctic oil arrived at a refinery in the Netherlands and was purchased by the French company, Total. Gazprom Public Joint Stock Company Gazprom (, ""Publichnoe Aktsionernoe Obshchestvo Gazprom"", abbreviated PAO Gazprom, , )"
"in Barcelona. In January 2012, the ship travelled to the East Coast of the USA, planning to dock at New York City, Baltimore, Southport, North Carolina, Fort Lauderdale and St. Petersburg, Florida. In March 2013, the ship travelled to Australia. Rainbow Warrior (2011) Rainbow Warrior (sometimes Rainbow Warrior III) is a purpose-built motor-assisted sailing yacht owned and operated by Greenpeace and intended for use in their activities such as environmental protests and scientific excursions. She was christened on October 14, 2011, and has replaced ""Rainbow Warrior II"" after further upgrades and maintenance of the older ship had been shown to"
"in place to prevent oil spills. Earlier in August 2012, Greenpeace staged similar protests against the same oil rig. On 18 September, the crew of ""Arctic Sunrise"" circled the Prirazlomnaya oil rig, while three crew attempted to board the platform. In response, the Russian Coast Guard seized control of the ship and detained the activists. The ship was later towed by a coast guard vessel to the Russian Arctic port of Murmansk. The ""Arctic Sunrise"" crew consisted of 30 members from 16 nationalities. The Russian government intended to charge the Greenpeace activists with piracy, which carries a maximum penalty of"
"installation was towed to the Pechora Sea in August 2011, however it took 2.5 years before the production started in December 2013. In 2014, Gazprom expects to deliver at least 300000 tones of the Arctic crude (ARCO). According to study of possible Arctic oil spill scenarios from the oil platform Prirazlomnaya completed by Russian scientists, together with environmentalists from Greenpeace and WWF-Russia Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund Gazprom is not prepared to deal adequately with a spill associated with oil production. The Russian Ministry of Emergency confirmed that Gazprom’s oil spill response plan expired in July 2012, making any"
"drilling the company undertakes in the Arctic illegal until a new one is submitted and approved. On 24 August 2012, a group of Greenpeace activists under Kumi Naidoo scaled the platform and put up a banner ""Don't kill the Arctic"". On 18 September 2013, Greenpeace's ship ""Arctic Sunrise"" circled the Prirazlomnaya oil rig while three crew attempted to board the platform. In response, the Russian Coast Guard seized control of the ship and detained the activists. The ship was subsequently towed by a coastguard vessel to the Russian Arctic port of Murmansk. The crew consisted of thirty members from sixteen"
"charges or legal representation aboard a Russian Coast Guard vessel."" On September 19, the Russian Coast Guard ""illegally boarded the Greenpeace-ship, while in international waters. 11 warning shots have been fired at Arctic-Sunrise, the activists threatened with knives and guns. 30 activists were arrested, 27 ""are being held by the Russian Coast Guard against their will"". Phil Radford, executive director of Greenpeace USA, stated that the reaction of the Russian Coast Guard ""was the stiffest response that Greenpeace has encountered from a government since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in 1985."" To free their activists and end Arctic drilling,"
"of the harsh conditions. Greenpeace regards the petroleum activities of Statoil as ""illegal"". Statoil denies the Greenpeace statement. According to The Maritime Executive (2014), Statoil says ""Statoil respects people's right to make a legal protest, and we feel it is important to have a democratic debate around the oil industry. We have established robust plans for the operation, and feel confident they can be carried out safely and without accidents."" On May 27, 2014, Greenpeace's ship, MV ""Esperanza"", took over Transocean Spitsbergen, oil rig of Statoil in the Barents Sea such that it became incapable of operating. After that, the"
"the ""stiffest response that Greenpeace has encountered from a government since the bombing of the ""Rainbow Warrior"" in 1985."" The Netherlands asked the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to order Russia to release a Greenpeace ship and the activists who were on board. Russia subsequently indicated that it would not participate in the tribunal since the matter was an issue of internal Russian law involving criminal acts against Russian property. Despite the non-appearance, the Tribunal granted provisional measures releasing the entire crew and the ship on a financial bond. The ship was boarded by the Russian coast"
"Ocean between the Norwegian Government and Greenpeace. In 2013, three activists of Greenpeace got on a Statoil's oil rig, wearing bear suits. According to a spokesman from Greenpeace Russia, they stayed on the rig for about three hours. The activists in bear suits ""were escorted"" to the shore. Statoil reportedly did not intend to file a suit against them. Greenpeace had argued that Statoil's drilling plans posed a threat to Bear Island, an uninhabited wildlife sanctuary that is home to rare species including polar bears, because an oil spill would be nearly impossible to clean up in the Arctic because"
"director of Greenpeace USA, argues that the arrest of the Arctic 30 is the stiffest response that Greenpeace has encountered from a government since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by the French secret service in 1985. Greenpeace activists continue to call for governments to save the arctic, the original motivation for the protest. According to Dutch Greenpeace members, the condition of the Greenpeace ship worsened during its stay in Murmansk, as the Russian officials are not taking proper care of the vessel. 11 Nobel peace laureates wrote to Putin, calling on him to drop the ""excessive"" charges of piracy:"
"Russian coast. With the intention of sailing to Amchitka to protest the 1971 test, the committee chartered a ship it renamed ""Greenpeace"". The ship was turned back by the U.S. Coast Guard. However, under this name, the organization created for the protest continued to exist as the campaigning environmental organization Greenpeace. In July 1971, the anti-nuclear Committee for Nuclear Responsibility filed suit against the Atomic Energy Commission, asking the court to stop the test. The suit was unsuccessful, with the Supreme Court denying the injunction by 4 votes to 3. Cannikin Cannikin was an underground nuclear weapons test performed on"
"different nationalities. The Russian government has intended to charge the Greenpeace activists with piracy, which carries a maximum penalty of fifteen years of imprisonment. It was the stiffest response that Greenpeace has encountered from a government since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in 1985, said Phil Radford, executive director of Greenpeace USA. The Netherlands launched legal action to free 30 Greenpeace activists charged in Russia with piracy. Arctic Sunrise is a Dutch-flagged ship. Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said the Netherlands had applied to the UN's Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, which resolves maritime disputes between states. The"
"from five different countries boarded ""Fennica"" and ""Nordica"" at Arctech Helsinki Shipyard to protest Shell's drilling operations in Alaska. The protests continued on May Day when the 52 activists from 15 different countries tried again to prevent ""Nordica"" from leaving Helsinki. On 3 May, while ""Nordica"" was passing the Swedish island of Öland in the Baltic Sea, six Greenpeace activists boarded the icebreaker, forcing the vessel to stop at Karlskrona where the protesters were arrested by the Swedish police and coast guard. Finally, in the following night 14 activists forced ""Nordica"" to carry out evasive manoeuvres in the sea region"
"mates and engineers on the newly-arrived Greenpeace ship, the ""Rainbow Warrior"". Given a spot as a possible deckhand, he was promoted to First Mate on his first day. Four months later, when the British captain left the ship to return to his family, he became the skipper. On July 10, 1985, as the ""Rainbow Warrior"" was at Auckland Harbour preparing to sail in protest French nuclear testing, it was bombed by French agents and sunk. The incident, which killed freelance photographer Fernando Pereira, caused an international scandal. On September 19, 2013, he was arrested off Russian waters for participating in"
"given the press inaccurate information concerning her actions in politically managing state-owned company Arctia Shipping, when the company wanted to initiate police investigations against Greenpeace in 2012. In a protest against Arctic ice drilling a year earlier, members of Greenpeace illegally boarded the multipurpose icebreakers ""Fennica"" and ""Nordica"" operated by the state-owned company Arctia Shipping under contract to the Royal Dutch Shell. Hautala's office had recommended that the company withdraw its criminal complaint against Greenpeace, and threatened to fire the management in case that they disobliged. When ""Iltalehti"" first broke the story, Hautala initially had a different account of the"
"were involved with the counter-culture and the original opposition to the Vietnam War movements. Peace yachts attempting to disrupt the French tests sailed in coordinated protests through the Mururoa exclusion zones between 1972-1991. These included the voyage of the first joint Greenpeace-CND campaign in 1972 with David McTaggart, (who co-founded Greenpeace), on the yacht Vega (renamed Greenpeace III). This was followed in 1973 by a flotilla of yachts organised by the Peace Media with protest yachts Fri, Spirit of Peace, the Boy Roel, Magic Isle and the Tanmure. During numerous voyages to Mururoa atoll the protest yachts ""Fri"", ""Vegas"" and"
"Russian president to drop charges against Greenpeace activists and journalists. Six men broke in Greenpeace office in Murmansk and stole materials. On 22 November 2013 the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ruled that the campaigners and the ship should be immediately released, and should be allowed to leave the country, against a bail of 3.5 Million Euro. On 14 August 2015 the international Permanent Court of Arbitration unanimously ruled that Russia had acted in breach of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and has to compensate the Dutch government (flag state of the ship)"
"ice floes so that they don't endanger the drilling operation. The decision to charter the Finnish icebreakers to support Arctic offshore drilling has been widely criticized due potential environmental damage in case of oil spill. On 16 March 2012, some 52 Greenpeace activists from five different countries boarded ""Fennica"" and ""Nordica"" at Arctech Helsinki Shipyard to protest Shell's drilling operations in Alaska. In November 2012, ""Fennica"" and her sister ship became the first Finnish icebreakers to sail through the Northern Sea Route when the vessels returned to Finland for the 2012 icebreaking season. During the transit, the multipurpose icebreakers were"
"The company, located in Kent, Washington, had surreptitiously buried thousands of barrels of dangerous toxic compounds on company grounds. Greenpeace pressure eventually led to federal EPA enforcement proceedings. The site was placed on the federal Superfund list and was eventually completely cleaned up with money from WPC and its clients, including Boeing. In 1983 Hinck assumed Greenpeace USA's key leadership position of Campaign Director. In that capacity, Hinck worked with Greenpeace Canada to confront a Russian whaling operation on the Siberian coast in the North Pacific. On July 18, 1983, Greenpeace’s flagship ""Rainbow Warrior"" sailed into Soviet waters off Siberia"
"that was en route to explore for Arctic oil for Shell. At the protest, Phil Radford of Greenpeace called for ""President Obama [to] ban all offshore oil drilling and call for an end to the use of oil in our cars by 2030."" On 16 March 2012, 52 Greenpeace activists from five different countries boarded ""Fennica"" and ""Nordica"", multipurpose icebreakers chartered to support Shell's drilling rigs near Alaska. Around the same time period, a reporter for ""Fortune"" magazine spoke with Edward Itta, an Inupiat Eskimo leader and the former mayor of the North Slope Borough, who expressed that he was"
"in protests against the US testing of Trident missiles in 1989, the ""Greenpeace"" was rammed by the US Navy vessel, the USS ""Kittiwake"" (ASR-13) multiple times. In late 1993 crew aboard the ship exposed Russian ships dumping 900 tonnes of liquid radioactive waste into the Sea of Japan. Protests against the resumption of French nuclear testing in French Polynesia followed in 1995. During this time the vessel was boarded and detained by French police in international waters. The ""Greenpeace"" was replaced in 2001 by the MV ""Esperanza"". She has since been reconverted to her original form as the ""Elbe"" and"
"Rainbow Warrior (2011) Rainbow Warrior (sometimes Rainbow Warrior III) is a purpose-built motor-assisted sailing yacht owned and operated by Greenpeace and intended for use in their activities such as environmental protests and scientific excursions. She was christened on October 14, 2011, and has replaced ""Rainbow Warrior II"" after further upgrades and maintenance of the older ship had been shown to be impractical. The vessel is the first ""Rainbow Warrior"" that is not converted from another vessel. Her Hull was constructed in Poland and she was built in Germany, to provide state of the art facilities for the group's use, including"
"on 12 November, the Kalininsky and Primorsky district courts released most of the people on bail, and the Murmansk Regional Court rejected an appeal against the arrests on 21 November. According to Phil Radford, Executive Director of Greenpeace in the U.S. at the time, the reaction of the Russian coast guard and courts were the ""stiffest response that Greenpeace has encountered from a government since the bombing of the ""Rainbow Warrior"" in 1985."" The detainees have been christened the ""Arctic 30"" by Greenpeace and the press. They include: Crew by nationality: Activists by nationality: Non-activists and journalists by nationality: One"
"Amchitka and faced the U.S. Navy ship Confidence. The activists were forced to turn back. Because of this and the increasingly bad weather the crew decided to return to Canada only to find out that the news about their journey and the support from the crew of the Confidence had generated widespread sympathy for their protest. Greenpeace chartered another ship, a former minesweeper ""Edgewater Fortune"", which was renamed the ""Greenpeace Too!"". Paul Watson, also a co-founder of Greenpeace was selected to crew the 2nd vessel. One day out of Amchitka the United States Atomic Energy Commission conducted the underground 5"
"and sailed by John Cormack. The ship was renamed ""Greenpeace"" for the protest after a term coined by activist Bill Darnell. In the autumn of 1971, the ship sailed towards Amchitka and faced the U.S. Coast Guard ship ""Confidence"" which forced the activists to turn back. Because of this and the increasingly bad weather the crew decided to return to Canada only to find out that the news about their journey and reported support from the crew of the ""Confidence"" had generated sympathy for their protest. After this Greenpeace tried to navigate to the test site with other vessels, until"
"Peter Willcox Peter Willcox is an American sea captain best known for his activism with the environmental organization Greenpeace. He was on board as captain of the ""Rainbow Warrior"" when it was bombed and sunk by French military members in New Zealand in 1985. In 2013, he was aboard the MV ""Arctic Sunrise"" when the Russian military boarded it and arrested him and 30 other activists in what became known as the ""Arctic 30."" He was detained for two months before being released. In 2014, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from ""The Guardian"" for his environmental activism. Willcox was"
"from an oil well in case of a blowout, would not be needed until later when the drill reaches depths where oil and gas are expected to be found. In Portland, ""Fennica"" was met by protesters who opposed Shell's plan to drill oil in the Arctic waters. Greenpeace activists hanging from the St. Johns Bridge as well as ""kayaktivists"" in the water tried to prevent the icebreaker from returning to Alaska on 30 July. While the protesters were eventually removed, allowing the icebreaker to leave, Greenpeace claimed symbolic victory after the protest had forced the icebreaker to turn back and"
"fund-raiser) Greenpeace functions moved to other private homes and held public meetings weekly on Wednesday nights at the Kitsilano Neighborhood House before settling, in the autumn of 1974, in a small office shared with the SPEC environmental group at 2007 West 4th at Maple in Kitsilano. When the nuclear tests at Amchitka were over, Greenpeace moved its focus to the French atmospheric nuclear weapons testing at the Moruroa Atoll in French Polynesia. The young organization needed help for their protests and were contacted by David McTaggart, a former businessman living in New Zealand. In 1972 the yacht ""Vega"", a ketch"