Alaska Dispatch | Jul 15, 2012
As Shell’s drilling vessels make their way to the Arctic, Greenpeace is following close behind. Now some lawmakers are scrutinizing the fact that the activist group’s northward journey escaped analysis while Shell faces unprecedented attention from government agencies.
Greenpeace announced it would be following alongside Shell’s vessels in order to protest and monitor the oil company’s Arctic exploration; the group also plans to deploy submarines upon reaching Arctic waters. Jackie Dragon, Greenpeace’s lead Arctic campaigner, told Fuel Fix that Greenpeace is “headed to the Arctic to show how little is known about this pristine ecosystem before Shell’s rigs move in to destroy it.”