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Oil company execs sit through 15-minute session staged by Greenpeace activists
By Bob Berwyn
SUMMIT COUNTY — European Greenpeace activists arranged a classic action in Denmark this week, when they staged an informational session about oil drilling off the shore of northeast Greenland.
Working in Copenhagen during a meeting called by the Greenland Bureau of Mineral and Petroleum, the group set up its own presentation, then told oil company executives that the venue for the official meeting had been changed. Click here to read the Greenpeace blog post on the meeting.
The anti-drilling advocates then led the representatives from Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, Statoil and NunaOil into the alternate room. Along with coffee and cake, the activists then gave a 15-minute presentation on the potential financial pitfalls and the environmental risks of drilling in an as-yet untouched area along the northeast coast of Greenland. (more…)
Filed under: BP Gulf oil spill, Environment, oil drilling, Summit County news | Tagged: Arctic oil drilling, Environment, Greenland oil drilling, Greenpeace | 3 Comments »
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