Mongabay: Greenpeace has announced that 20 of its activists, stemming from 13 countries, have locked themselves in an icebreaker ship in Helsinki, Finland. The ship is scheduled to move out to the Alaskan Arctic to aid in exploratory offshore drilling by oil giant Shell. Another icebreaker has already left for the U.S. Arctic; both have been leased to Shell by their owner, the Finnish government. "We are here on behalf of the nearly 400,000 people around the world who in just a couple of months have spoken...
URL: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0501-hance-greenpeace-icebreaker.html
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