http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/25/world/europe/greenpeace-activists-climb-russian-oil-rig-in-arctic-ocean.html
This article published on August 24th, 2012 details a recent even in which a group of Russian environmental activists climbed an oil-drilling platform, using ropes to support themselves as they displayed a banner reading "Save the Arctic." In order to make them leave, russian workers sprayed cold water on the activists, so they left after 15 hours instead of staying their planned several days. The drilling platform is owned by energy company Gazprom, who claimed they invited the protestors aboard for "a constructive dialogue." Due to warming of the north, companies including Gazprom, Exxon Mobil and Shell are all able to access new areas of the arctic ocean for offshore drilling that used to be icebound. The goal of the activists was to disrupt petroleum drilling in the arctic this summer, as well as to bring attention on oil companies for not having a plan for cleaning up an oil-spill, said to be worse than the BP one in the Gulf of MX in 2010. No punishment has happened yet, but russian law reprimands activists.
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