By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM, July 18 (Reuters) - Russia must pay the Netherlands more than 5 million euros ($5.79 million)in damages for seizing a Dutch-flagged Greenpeace vessel in 2013 and arresting 30 people aboard, an international arbitration panel ruled on Tuesday. Russian Federal Security Service agents captured the Arctic Sunrise in international waters after a … [Read more...]
Russia Ordered to Compensate Greenpeace Over ‘Arctic Sunrise’ Ship Seizure
AMSTERDAM, Aug 25 (Reuters) - A court in the Netherlands has ordered Russia to pay compensation for seizing the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise during a protest against an offshore oil platform two years ago, a ruling which Moscow dismissed as lacking legal authority. The Permanent Court of Arbitration, which resolves disputes between states, said the decision was … [Read more...]
Greenpeace Protest Ship Departs Russia 10 Months After High Profile Arrest
A Greenpeace ship has departed Russia more than 10 months after it was arrested by Russian authorities during a high profile protest against arctic drilling. The MV Arctic Sunrise has departed the port city of Murmansk and is now sailing for its home port of Amsterdam, Greenpeace said in a statement released Friday. The ship has been held since September when it was used … [Read more...]
Russia Drops Charges Against Greenpeace Activists
MOSCOW, Dec 25 (Reuters) - Russia formally dropped criminal charges against Greenpeace activists arrested in a protest over Arctic oil drilling on Wednesday, under a Kremlin amnesty extended to all 30 who had been facing up to seven years jail if convicted. The environmental group said 29 of the 30, who are still in Russia after being freed on bail, have now been amnestied … [Read more...]
International Maritime Tribunal Orders Release of Greenpeace ‘Arctic 30’
By Michael Hogan HAMBURG, Germany, Nov 22 (Reuters) - The U.N. maritime tribunal on Friday ordered Russia to release a Greenpeace ship and 30 people arrested in a protest against Russian Arctic oil drilling, most of whom have just been released from detention on bail. The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg said it had accepted a request from the … [Read more...]
Greenpeace NZ Sailboaters in Standoff with 100,000 Ton Noble Drillship – UPDATE
UPDATE (11/20/13): The Noble Bob Douglas drillship has moved into position over an exploratory well off the coast of the New Zealand and will continue with its planned drilling operations, despite the continued presence of an encroaching Greenpeace protest sailboat. A spokesman for Anadarko New Zealand told reporters that the SV Vega remained within 500 meters of the … [Read more...]
Paul McCartney Urges Putin to Free Greenpeace ‘Arctic 30’
Henry Meyer Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Paul McCartney wrote to Russian President Vladimir Putin, urging him to free Greenpeace activists arrested for protesting against Arctic oil drilling. “Vladimir, millions of people in dozens of countries would be hugely grateful if you were to intervene to bring about an end to this affair,” McCartney, who was taken on a tour … [Read more...]