 
 
[ atlantic frontier | reports | press releases | photos ]  Galway, Ireland -- 21 July 1998 Greenpeace today called on the Irish government to replace oil exploration licensing in the Atlantic with offshore wind energy development. Greenpeace's vessel MV Greenpeace is visiting Galway as part of its global campaign to protect the climate, it arrived from the UK waters where it protested against seismic exploration activities by oil companies such as Statoil, Conoco, Esso and Petrofina. 
London -- 3 July 1998 Greenpeace today stepped up its global campaign to stop new oil exploration and prevent dangerous climate change with an 11 hour disruption of oil giants' Statoil, Mobil and Enterprise' oil search in the North Atlantic, north of Scotland. 
London -- At 0918 hours BST 2nd June 1998 A UK Greenpeace activist was one of six arrested by Norwegian coastguards as they attempted to occupy the oil exploration and drilling platform 'Ocean Alliance' in the Atlantic Frontier for the second time in 48 hours. Six Norwegian coastguard personnel and a police officer then boarded the Greenpeace vessel, SV Stahlratte, at midday and took control of the vessel and its crew, despite the fact that it was in international waters. The vessel is now under their control and has been forced to sail back to Kristiansund in Norway. A police officer and 3 coastguards have remained on board. Two Greenpeace inflatables were launched from the SV Stahlratte this morning, despite earlier threats from the coastguard ship to use force if the activists crossed the platform's 500-metre exclusion zone. The coastguard pursued the activists and intercepted them moments before they attempted to board the 'Ocean Alliance' as part of a continued operation to stop oil exploration in the Atlantic Frontier. The 'Ocean Alliance' is operating on behalf of Shell and the Norwegian State-owned company Statoil and is drilling in the Nordic sector of the Frontier. | |
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