Barge Occupiers Arrested
Activists build
Stephanie Tunmore on the BP barge before her arrest.

Following the arrest of five Greenpeace activists, BP resorted to the courts to halt a blockade of its barge. The five Greenpeace activists were arrested in the early afternoon, Alaska time on 8 August after occupying a BP barge in the Arctic Ocean for 39 hours and installing wind and solar generation. The barge is carrying drilling equipment for BP's Northstar project.

Greenpeace campaigners Stephanie Tunmore and Stan Vincent maintained a continuous stream of satellite phone and radio reports from the barge right up until the moment of their arrest.

Stan Vincent at the Apple Hut

Stephanie on the arrests: MP3 or RealAudio.

Stan on the arrests: MP3 or RealAudio.

Stan Vincent at the Apple Hut.  

More satellite phone reports direct from Stephanie Tunmore on the BP barge:
Arrival: MP3 or RealAudio
Occupation: MP3 or RealAudio

BP runs to the courts. See latest news.

Text updates on Greenpeace US website. (Opens a separate browser window.)

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Save the Arctic:
stop BP's Northstar

Greenpeace has taken its fight to protect the world's climate to the ice of the Arctic Ocean.

Contact us at:
stop.northstar@ams.greenpeace.org

Polar bears are starving, walrus and caribou populations are declining, and the Arctic ice pack is melting away: scientists are warning that rising temperatures from global warming are damaging the fragile Arctic systems that wildlife and northern communities rely on.

BP's Northstar project would open up a whole new offshore oil frontier by drilling under the melting Arctic ice pack. This further contributes to global warming and threatens to cause oil spills in this vulnerable region.