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The Northern Lights above the Esperanza ? Will Rose / Greenpeace
We had a fairly quiet weekend on board the Esperanza – especially compared to the "all systems go" mode we were in last week during the action. Yesterday Babu, our wonderful cook, had a well deserved day off and some of us volunteered to prepare [...]
Sadly, all four of our climbers will not be coming back to the Esperanza after all. Jens, Sim, Timo and Matt are flying home to Germany, USA, Finland and Poland respectively. Their personal belongings are still on board and they are going home in spare clothes bought for them by friends in Greenland. I’m sure [...]
BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
Today our lawyers sent a letter to the UK government threatening legal action over their decision to continue giving licenses for deep sea oil drilling even before we know for certain the causes of the Deepwater Horizon explosion.
We’re asking the government to stop giving out these [...]
Watch Sim talk about his "relatively comfortable" night dangling off the underside of Cairn’s Stena Don rig. Our four climbers are still on Cairn’s rig, stopping the company from continuing its dangerous drilling in Arctic waters.
Read more at: www.GoBeyondOil.org
Ben writes about this morning’s events from the Esperanza…
Well, that was dramatic. Yesterday afternoon, the seas started churning and our huge banner on the oil rig was twisting and flapping as a gale blew up. I spoke to the four activists under rig and they assured me they were fine. They had self-heating meals and [...]
We are still waiting for our climbers to be released but hoping they will be back on board the Esperanza soon. They are sorely missed – especially Timo’s lovely guitar playing in the evenings. Anais is talking about preparing a "Welcome Back!" banner for them and every time the captain or our campaign leader walks [...]
Picture of Sim yesterday morning on the rig
It’s five in the morning Greenland time and the last few hours have been quite insane. Last night, with the Espy pitching and rocking, and cups flying all over the place, we knew we had to get Timo, Meteusz, Sim and Jens off the rig. The worst [...]
This was the scene on the Esperanza’s bridge as Luke called through to Sim on the Stena Don for the last time, as the climbers prepared to leave the oil rig. Apologies for the audio which is a bit fuzzy, but here’s a transcript:
S: Esperanza, this is Alpha Climb, go aheadL: Er you called us, [...]
Campaigners have evaded a huge military security operation to scale a controversial oil rig in the freezing seas off Greenland. At dawn this morning four expert climbers in inflatable speedboats dodged Danish Navy commandos before climbing up the inside of the rig and hanging from it in tents suspended from ropes, halting its drilling operation [...]
Our four climbers have spent the night in sub-zero temperatures, hanging off the bottom of Cairn’s Arctic oil rig – the Stena Don. While we’re attached to the rig, Cairn Energy can’t continue their reckless drilling.
For live updates visit www.GoBeyondOil.org
Here’s a video of how they scaled up the legs of the rig, followed by a [...]